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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) delivered a compelling call for the careful legalization of cannabis at a weekend event sponsored by the Parabola Center, a nonpartisan think tank dedicated to equity in cannabis advocacy. TV personality Jonathan Van Ness of the Netflix series “Queer Eye...

President Joe Biden‘s May 16 announcement to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug has been framed as a racial justice policy aimed at reversing long-standing inequities. Biden said it himself about cannabis arrests: “Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and...

As cannabis laws loosen up and significant federal reforms such as marijuana rescheduling to Schedule III have been confirmed by the Biden Administration, it is important to know what Americans think about all this.  While previous surveys and polls have confirmed the growing support for cannabis...

While the majority of US residents support federal cannabis legalization and those involved in the industry would be ecstatic to see the reform, new insights reveal some concerns about it. Parabola Center for Law and Policy, a nonprofit think tank of legal...

Vote on Marijuana Banking Expected Within Two to Three Weeks The Senate Banking Committee led by Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, Committee Chair, heard testimony on the SAFE Banking Act on May 11 for nearly two hours before adjourning without a vote. Brown said recently a long-awaited vote on cannabis...

Recreational cannabis legalization campaigns in Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota and South Dakota raised some $20 million last year. More than $19 million, or 95% of the total, came from cannabis industry businesses, reported MjBizDaily, citing midterm elections campaign finance records....

Rep. Jared Huffman and Rep. Earl Blumenauer filed a bill that would help small cannabis growers compete against multi-state operators when (and if) marijuana is federally legalized. With this legislation, titled the “Small and Homestead Independent Producers (SHIP) Act,”...

Leaders in Mainstream and Cannabis Media Speak to the Evolution of Billion Dollar Sector and What’s Next in 2020 NEW YORK, NY - As New York, New Jersey and Connecticut investigate how best to legalize cannabis in 2019 and millions of investment dollars  investments pour into companies...

Not long ago, the cannabis industry could take pride in the higher-than-usual percentage of C-suite positions occupied by women, with roughly 1-in-3 of these posts held by a woman. This number plummeted in just a couple of years, however, dropping from 36 percent in 2015 to 27 percent in 2017...