Most Popular Cannabis Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Cannabis Topic Page over the last year.
#1 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...
#2 Smoke Shop Ordered to Pay $4.9 Million for ‘Persistent Illegal Cannabis Sales’
May 6 2025 // Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has secured a $4.93 million judgment against Planet Zaza of East Haven and its owner, Mohamed Alraishani, following “persistent illegal cannabis sales in spite of a court...
#3 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...
#4 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...
#5 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...
#6 Texas Wants to Kill a Cannabis Boom It Accidentally Helped Stoke
Jun 4 2025 // Texas is on the cusp of banning all recreational THC products after lawmakers passed a bill to reverse the unintended effects of hemp laws that led to a boom in shops selling gummies, joints, vapes and drinks that create a...
#7 Two Workers Injured in Explosion at Cannabis Facility
Jan 27 2025 // Two workers were injured in an explosion and fire at a cannabis extraction facility on Maryland’s Eastern Shore last Wednesday, state fire officials said. Firefighters were called to PharmaCann in Stevensville for a...
#8 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...
#9 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...
#10 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...
#11 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...
#12 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...
#13 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...
#14 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,...
#15 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...
#16 By 1 Vote, Pennsylvania House Passes Measure to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
May 9 2025 // The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly passed a measure to legalize recreational use of marijuana with purchases permitted only through shops run by the state. The vote, 102-101, was largely along...
#17 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...
#18 Michigan Marijuana Store to Pay $205K to Settle a Workers’ Lawsuit Over Lost Tips
Jun 9 2025 // A judge approved a deal Friday to try to solve a major buzzkill: Employees at a Michigan marijuana dispensary chain said management was keeping tips left by happy customers. Timber Cannabis, which has seven locations,...
#19 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...
#20 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,...
