by InfluencER | Mar 28, 2022 | Politics and Law
President Joe Biden is again proposing to keep blocking Washington, D.C. from legalizing marijuana sales as part of the budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2023 that he sent to Congress on Monday. To the relief of advocates, however, he again kept a separate rider intact...
by InfluencER | Mar 28, 2022 | Politics and Law
With a vote on a bill to federally legalize marijuana set for House floor consideration this week, lawmakers on Thursday released a report on the legislation that effectively previews the partisan debate to come, with the majority and minority leaders of a key...
by InfluencER | Mar 28, 2022 | Politics and Law
Some of the roughly 400 municipalities in New Jersey that opted out of hosting the adult-use cannabis industry ahead of an August 2021 deadline to do so have since changed their minds. Roughly 29% of the state’s municipalities now allow some form of adult-use business...
by InfluencER | Mar 28, 2022 | Politics and Law
Tim James, a leading Republican gubernatorial candidate in Alabama, has expressed opposition to the state’s medical cannabis program, claiming that state officials want to create a “drug cartel,” according to an AL.com report. “This is nothing but a bait and switch to...
by InfluencER | Mar 28, 2022 | Politics and Law
A major seller of marijuana-infused chocolate bars and vape cartridges this week pushed the author of the so-called Cannabis Freedom Act to cap cannabis business licenses in his plan to fully legalize the drug, the lawmaker said. Rep. Ron Hicks, R-Defiance, sponsor of...
