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#1 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...
#2 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,...
#3 Texas Senate Passes Ban on Hemp
Mar 21 2025 // The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a state ban on all forms of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, advancing a priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to crack down on the state’s booming consumable hemp market six years after...
#4 Texas Farmers Fear Proposed Legislation Could Devastate Hemp Economy
Apr 23 2025 // Andrew Hill, who studied and farmed hemp in California before it was legal in Texas, was a keynote speaker at the state’s first-ever agricultural hemp expo in Dallas in 2019. Amid considerable hype and excitement...
#5 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...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 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,...
#9 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...
#10 Wisconsin Republicans Kill Cannabis Legalization And Tax Increases for Millionaires
May 13 2025 // Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature voted to kill most of the top spending priorities of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, including legalizing marijuana, even as both sides negotiate a tax cut. The...
#11 Company Vows to Sue Over Damages After New Mexico Police Destroy Cannabis Crops
Nov 7 2024 // State police have destroyed tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana plants at greenhouses in northwestern New Mexico, marking what regulators say is the largest seizure and destruction of cannabis in New Mexico since new...
#12 In $17M Suit, Cannabis Grower Claims Nearby Farm’s Pesticides Contaminated Its Crops
Feb 19 2025 // A Massachusetts cannabis grower is suing a neighboring berry and vegetable farm for allegedly rendering its entire cannabis harvest unusable by incorrectly spraying chemicals in a way that caused them to drift onto its...
#13 Ken Paxton Adds Dallas to List of Cities He’s Sued Over Marijuana Decriminalization
Nov 22 2024 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed another lawsuit to prevent decriminalizing marijuana-related offenses, this time against the city of Dallas. Paxton has previously sued the cities of San Marcos, Austin, Killeen,...
#14 Fire-Damaged Cannabis Grower Loses $1.3 Million Business Income Loss Claim
Jan 23 2025 // A cannabis growing company has lost its bid to have its insurer cover $1.3 million in claimed business income losses after a building fire damaged almost 1,000 of its marijuana plants and shuttered one of its...
#15 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,...
#16 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...
#17 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...
#18 Supreme Court: Truck Driver Can Seek Treble Damages Over THC in CBD Product
Apr 4 2025 // The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with a truck driver who wants to sue for triple damages over a CBD hemp product he says was falsely advertised as being free from marijuana’s active ingredient and resulted in him...
#19 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...
#20 Judge Tosses Ex-Arkansas Governor’s Suit Against Meta Over CBD Advertisement
Nov 20 2024 // A federal judge in Delaware on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against social media giant Meta over advertisements using his name and image to sell CBD products. Huckabee, a Baptist...
