Latest Cannabis Headlines
All the headlines from our Cannabis Topic Page, ordered by recency.
State Agency Shifts Focus as Medical Marijuana Demand in Oklahoma Rises
Mar 1 2019 // The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority has temporarily closed its customer service center to free up more staff to respond to the high volume of applications for medical marijuana cards. The number of applications...
Michigan Court Rules Against Medical Marijuana User in Rescinded Job Offer Case
Feb 25 2019 // Michigan’s Court of Appeals has ruled against a woman whose offer of conditional employment by a public entity was rescinded after she tested positive for marijuana even though she had a state-issued card allowing...
North Dakota House OKs Medical Marijuana Law Changes
Feb 20 2019 // The North Dakota House approved legislation that would expand the list of medical conditions for which residents can use medical marijuana, add health care professionals who can certify patients for the drug and increase...
Wisconsin Governor to Propose Decriminalizing Marijuana
Feb 19 2019 // Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers will propose decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana in his plan for the next state budget, a newspaper reported Sunday. Evers also will propose legalizing marijuana for medical conditions...
People
Feb 18 2019 // National MetLife has named Darla Finchum as head of the company’s U.S. property/casualty business, MetLife Auto & Home. Finchum had been serving in this role on an interim basis since last August. She will be...
Kentucky Governor Voices Support for Medical Marijuana as Legislature Weighs Bill
Feb 15 2019 // Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin spoke about his support for legalizing medical marijuana in highly personal terms on Tuesday, telling a community forum that his teenage nephew died after fighting “a very hard battle with...
$6B in Marijuana Sales in Colorado Since 2014
Feb 14 2019 // Colorado regulators say more than $6 billion in marijuana products have been sold since 2014 in the state. The figures released this week represent sales through the end of 2018. According to the Colorado Department of...
Bills Would Improve Access to Medical Marijuana in North Dakota
Feb 11 2019 // As North Dakota’s Health Department enters the final stages of implementing a statewide distribution system for medical marijuana, state lawmakers are considering proposals that would make it easier for patients to...
Bill Would End Federal Criminal Penalties for Marijuana
Feb 11 2019 // Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden proposed legislation Friday that would give states a free hand to allow legal cannabis markets without the threat of federal criminal intervention, the latest push in Congress to bolster the...
Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Site Ordered Closed After State Inspection
Feb 11 2019 // State regulators have ordered a medical marijuana dispensary in Acton, Mass., to close its doors temporarily. The Cannabis Control Commission announced on Twitter on Friday that it had issued a cease-and-desist order...
Chronic Pain is Top Reason Patients Use Medical Marijuana
Feb 6 2019 // The stigma surrounding marijuana use appears to be slowly fading in the U.S. New research from the University of Michigan, published in the February issue of Health Affairs, provides insight into the use of medical...
Firm Battling over Hemp Product Idaho Says Is Pot
Feb 5 2019 // A company has filed a lawsuit against Idaho State Police and Ada County after authorities seized nearly 7,000 pounds of cannabis from a truck headed to Colorado, the Idaho Statesman reported. Authorities who stopped the...
Declarations
Feb 4 2019 // Nevada Seatbelts “Whether folks want to or not, it’s currently a secondary law in Nevada.” — Nevada Department of Public Safety spokesman Andrew Bennett believes seatbelts should be a primary law in...
Audit of Oregon’s Marijuana Program Shows Regulators Fail to Meet Basic Standards
Feb 1 2019 // A new audit says Oregon’s marijuana program has failed to keep up with mandatory inspections, its weak testing system threatens to expose consumers to contaminants and regulators have done little to address black...
Cannasure Hires Dharia as Client Service Director in Ohio
Jan 23 2019 // Cannasure Insurance Services (Cannasure), an insurance managing general agent (MGA) and wholesale broker for the cannabis and hemp industries, has hired Jay Dharia as client service director in the group’s Cleveland,...
New Florida Gov Wants State Ban on Smokable Medical Marijuana Ended
Jan 23 2019 // Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the Legislature’s implementation of a medical marijuana law and said last week that if they don’t fix it quickly, he’ll take matters into his own...
Wildfires, Dynamex Dominate California Wholesaler Conference
Jan 21 2019 // Wildfires and the Dynamex decision dominated discussions at an insurance wholesaler conference in early January. The California Wholesaler Association conference in La Jolla, Calif., from Jan. 6 to Jan. 8 featured numerous...
California OK’s Pot Deliveries into Communities that Ban Sales
Jan 18 2019 // California has endorsed a rule that will allow home marijuana deliveries statewide, even into communities that have banned commercial pot sales. The regulation by the state Bureau of Cannabis Control was opposed by police...
New York, New Jersey Governors Set 2019 Goals to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
Jan 17 2019 // The Democratic governors of New York and New Jersey each set goals to legalize recreational marijuana as part of their 2019 agendas, declaring in separate State of the State speeches Tuesday that new laws should raise...
Mass. SJC Says Police Can Make Drugged Driving Arrest Based on Observations
Jan 17 2019 // The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that a state police officer was justified in arresting a suspect for driving under the influence of marijuana based on the officer’s observations of the driver’s...
