Latest Cannabis Headlines
All the headlines from our Cannabis Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Delta-8 Hemp, Medical Marijuana Industries to Face Off in Texas Legislative Session
Nov 1 2024 // Jack Stinnett got life-changing news in 2020 when he learned the lump that appeared on the side of his neck was tongue and mouth cancer. He and his wife Karen quickly enrolled him at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,...
Alabama Judge Appoints Mediator in Long-Running Med Marijuana License Dispute
Oct 25 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A judge has appointed a mediator in the long-running dispute over who gets licenses to grow and sell medical marijuana in Alabama. Montgomery Circuit Judge James Anderson named retired Circuit...
Gas Leak Kills 2 in Home Previously Busted for Illegal Marijuana Operation
Oct 24 2024 // Two people died and two others were treated for carbon monoxide poisoning at a Freedom, Maine home previously busted for an illegal marijuana grow operation, officials said Tuesday. Freedom Fire Chief Jim Waterman said his...
Wildfire Risk Upends California’s Cannabis Heartland as Insurance Vanishes
Sep 18 2024 // Hannah Whyte is one of thousands of Californians who have struggled to insure their property in the event of wildfire. Her 77-acre farm nestled deep in a wildfire-vulnerable forest lost its coverage from State Farm after...
Nebraska Certifies Ballot Measures to Legalize Medical Marijuana
Sep 17 2024 // Nebraska certified two ballot measures Friday to legalize medical marijuana even though the state’s Republican attorney general said their supporters may have submitted at least several thousand invalid signatures,...
Recreational Marijuana Sales Begin on NC Tribal Land But Still Illegal in State
Sep 9 2024 // CHEROKEE, N.C. (AP) — The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians began selling marijuana and cannabis products to any adult 21 or over starting Saturday at its tribe-owned dispensary in North Carolina, where possession or use...
Medical Marijuana User Fired After Drug Test Loses Unemployment Benefits Appeal
Aug 26 2024 // A Vermont man who was fired from his job after he said a random drug test showed he used medical marijuana while off duty for chronic pain has lost his appeal to the Vermont Supreme Court over unemployment benefits. Ivo...
Claim on Seized Hemp Shipment Barred, Showing Trickiness of Coverage
Aug 19 2024 // International treaties preempt state-based legal actions, giving an air transport company an escape from claims on what a hemp producer said was botched paperwork for an overseas hemp shipment, a federal appeals court...
Maine Regulators Reject Letting Utility Report Suspect Marijuana Growers to Police
Aug 16 2024 // Maine utility regulators unanimously rejected on Tuesday an electric utility’s proposal to proactively report high consumption that signals a marijuana growing operation to law enforcement officials in an attempt to...
North Dakota to Vote on Recreational Marijuana Legalization in November Election
Aug 14 2024 // BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana in North Dakota has qualified for the November election, the state’s top election official said Monday. That sets up another vote on the...
Reporting High Electric Bills Helps Nab Illegal Marijuana Farms But Raises Privacy Issues
Aug 14 2024 // Operators of illegal marijuana grow enterprises hidden inside rural homes in Maine don’t have to worry much about prying neighbors. But their staggering electric bills may give rise to a new snitch. An electric...
Ohio Begins Sales of Recreational Marijuana
Aug 6 2024 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Recreational marijuana sales will begin across Ohio on Tuesday when the state issues its first operating certificates. Nearly 100 medical marijuana dispensaries will be able to begin sales...
Claim on Seized Hemp Shipment Barred, Showing Trickiness of Coverage
Aug 1 2024 // International treaties preempt state-based legal actions, giving an air transport company an escape from claims on what a hemp producer said was botched paperwork for an overseas hemp shipment, a federal appeals court...
Cannabis Firm Fights Insurer’s Denial of Business Income Loss Claim Following Fire
Jul 29 2024 // A Berkshire Hathaway insurer is insisting it does not owe $1.3 million in claimed business income losses to a cannabis growing company after a building fire shuttered one of its “flowering” rooms for 68...
After Crash Killed 6 Teens, NTSB Says Marijuana’s Impact on Drivers Underestimated
Jul 23 2024 // A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using...
Maine Has No Medical Cannabis Testing Requirement. Health Advocates Urge Change.
Jul 10 2024 // Keri-Jon Wilson started as a hobbyist, making medical marijuana edibles on a small scale for patients suffering from chronic pain and cancer. But in 2015 she expanded her business, Portland-based Pot + Pan Manufacturing,...
Medical Cannabis User Fired After Failing Drug Test Appeals Denial of Job Benefits
Jun 3 2024 // A Vermont man who lost his job after he said a random drug test showed he had used medical marijuana off duty for chronic pain has appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court saying he should not have been denied a portion of...
Texas Lawmakers Zero In on Exploding Hemp Industry
May 15 2024 // Austin hemp entrepreneur Shayda Torabi is looking at a year filled with uncertainty. For the six years they’ve been in business, Torabi and her two sisters have operated Restart, their hemp dispensary, in a modest...
Takeaways from Our Conversation on Captives for Cannabis
May 7 2024 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Want further proof the cannabis industry is no longer the “red-headed stepchild” it is too often viewed as? Just ask TJ Frost? Frost is president of Symphony Grow, which recently...
Mississippi City Councilman Pleads Guilty to Selling Doctored CBD Products
May 6 2024 // GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi city council member pleaded guilty to federal charges after running a multimillion-dollar illegal drug business, prosecutors said last week. Biloxi City Council member Robert Leon...
