Colorado lawmakers back off plans to regulate “Amsterdam-style” marijuana clubs. “Given the uncertainty in Washington, this is not the time to be trying to carve off new turf and expand markets and make dramatic statements about marijuana,” Hickenlooper told the Denver Post last month. Sponsors of the club bill said that they had little choice […]
This morning law makers finally approved the much anticipated medical marijuana initiative. There are still several steps before the drug will be for sale. After 67 days in the legislature and over 40 pages of legislation, the compassionate care act is finally being written into law. The department of health already hired new staff members […]
The Pennsylvania Department of Health issued draft regulations on Tuesday that would govern how doctors become registered to prescribe medical marijuana and certify patients to receive the drug when it becomes available. Source: Pa. releases draft medical marijuana regulations for doctors
Several proposals to loosen New Hampshire’s regulations on the use of marijuana got hearings at the Statehouse Tuesday. Source: N.H. Senate Weighs Whether to Loosen State’s Marijuana Laws | New Hampshire Public Radio
“A draft set of rules for social consumption areas is expected to be released by April 25. Before they’re finalized, people will be able to weigh in May 25 at a public hearing, according to Denver Excise and Licenses. The department responsible for licensing Denver’s pot shops hopes to start approving businesses to open social consumption areas […]
AL.com found that Alabama courts are not sending many people to prison for marijuana possession anymore, although police are still making arrests and most of the remaining prison inmates are black. As of October 2016, more than 80 percent of the 220 state prisoners convicted of first-degree marijuana possession were black, according to the Alabama […]
Colorado has legalized pot but appears set to make it a crime to grow marijuana in operations run by co-ops. Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, but it has a nagging black-market problem. Law enforcement and state lawmakers attribute the black-market problem in part to weak restrictions on who can grow pot. Source: Colorado set […]
Legislation that would increase the number of licenses to grow medical marijuana and Gov. Larry Hogan’s proposal to give a tax break to manufacturers top the list of unresolved issues as the General Assembly heads into the final day of its 2017 session. Source: Marijuana, manufacturing top list of unresolved issues for Maryland General Assembly […]
By The Associated Press, Associated Press A Biddeford business owner hoping to start selling pot next year is giving his products away for free for now. The Portland Press Herald reports that Jack Sargent of the Biddeford-based Cannabis Shack is accepting donations for shipping and handling while waiting for the state to issue retail licenses. […]
Montana lawmakers may have the opportunity to study legalizing recreational marijuana in the next year or so. House Joint Resolution 35, heard Monday, would create a committee that would study how recreational legalization would be carried out in Montana. They’d look at things like if liquor control should be a guide for marijuana control, how […]
