marijuana legalization

How does living near a marijuana dispensary affect the price of your house? According to a recent study by Tomo, which compiles real estate data to help buyers by providing relevant information to make more informed purchases, it can actually add value to your home. "On average, if a dispensary...

UK CBD Co. Shares On Pause As Two Execs Tried To ‘Defraud' It The UK-based Chill Brands Group PLC (LON: CHLL) opted to suspend the trading of its shares on the London Stock Exchange as its board members and executives are not on the same page, reported Hemp Today. According to the company's Monday...

This past weekend, Slovenia voters gave the green light to an adult-use cannabis legalization measure and a proposal to allow medical marijuana patients to grow the plant for personal use. What Happened On Sunday, voters in the Central European nation provided feedback on two cannabis-related...

Senators Fight For Cannabis Industry Access To Federal Small Business Administration Financing A group of Democratic Senators is urging the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee to level the playing field for the state-legal marijuana industry by adding to the Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Services and...

The latest bipartisan push in Congress to address cannabis reform comes as cannabis-related amendments to a large-scale spending bill covering Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies (MilConVA) for the 2025 fiscal year that were filed recently. The measure from Reps. Brian Mast...

Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE:TRUL) (OTCQX:TCNNF) announced its first quarter results for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The Tallahassee-based medical cannabis giant reported revenue of $298 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2024, representing an increase of 4% sequentially and year-...

Cannabis use of any kind is illegal in Wisconsin. Even in light of the Biden administration’s plan to reclassify cannabis as a Schedule III substance through the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Wisconsin Republicans are strongly against recreational use, while their proposal to...

Prompted by Attorney General Merrick Garland's proposal to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, founder and co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, continues to push President Joe Biden's administration to put an end to the failed federal...

Local Leaders In Queens Are Against Licensed Pot Shops, Here's Why Some New York City politicians don't want any new licensed cannabis shops until illegal ones are eradicated, reported the New York Post. Sherry Algredo, chairwoman of Queens Community Board 9 reached out to state regulators to...

Residents of Lubbock, West Texas’ largest city with 264,000 residents, said no to a measure to decriminalize local low-level marijuana offenses. On Saturday, in a 65–35 vote, Lubbock chose not to enact marijuana policy reform. Adam Hernandez, the Lubbock decriminalization campaign director,...

CBD of Denver, Inc. (OTC:CBDD) has filed its financial results for the year ended Dec. 31, 2023. The Colorado-based cannabis company said total current assets increased to $117,218 in 2023, up from $28,043 in 2022. Gross profit for the year totaled $595,417, representing a significant recovery from...

Over a week after a group of North Dakotans filed a 2024 ballot measure petition to legalize recreational cannabis, the state's top election official gave the green light for signature gathering to begin, reported ABC News. The New Economic Frontier, a cannabis advocacy committee behind the push,...

Congressional Progressive Caucus Names Marijuana Legalization A Priority Ahead Of November Election As the November elections approach, efforts to garner more support among voters are doubling down. A new legislative agenda by the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) that was published last week...

Maine’s law enforcement agencies recently busted another illegal grow operation seizing 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of processed cannabis, reported the Associated Press. Xisen Guo, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, was behind a hidden high-tech cannabis grow operation from his house in...

Pennsylvania state Senator Dan Laughlin took a significant step toward amending the Uniform Firearms Act to conform with the legalization of medical marijuana. Laughlin (R) introduced the previously announced Senate Bill 1146 on 2nd Amendment Day, a public awareness day of people’s right to...