The approval of cannabis regulations this month was a key milestone on the road to the long-awaited launch of the state’s legal marijuana market. Office of Cannabis Management Interim Director Eric Taubel sat down with the Minnesota Star Tribune this week to lay out where things stand right now, what still needs to happen and …
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Following a pivotal national election in Germany earlier this year, political parties that are cooperating to form a new coalition government have announced they’ll conduct an “open-ended evaluation” of the country’s new marijuana legalization law—meaning that at least for now, officials will allow the policy to stay in place. Reform advocates had been watching closely …
Connecticut lawmakers have advanced a bill to decriminalize psilocybin for adults, despite the Democratic governor indicating he’d reject an earlier version of the reform measure. The legislature’s Joint Judiciary Committee passed the proposal on Friday in a 29-12 vote. This comes about one month after the panel first took up the bill, debating the issue and taking …
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A New York official says there are plans in the works to expand permitting and licensing rules that could allow adults to buy and consume marijuana at movie theaters. While many theaters across the country currently let moviegoers purchase and drink alcohol, that’s not the case for cannabis—even in states where marijuana has been legalized. …
Cannabis legalization largely stalled out in 2024 amid cross-chamber disagreements in state legislatures and ballot measure letdowns on Election Day. Nebraska was the lone state to advance reform last year via overwhelming support behind a pair of medical cannabis legalization measures in November, yet litigation attempting to prevent a program rollout remains pending. http://www.cannabisbusinesstimes.com/legislation-and-regulation/news/15738376/12-states-that-could-legalize-cannabis-in-2025
Following a landmark vote by the National Council’s Social Security and Health Committee (SGK-N) on February 14, 2025, Switzerland is on track to fully regulate adult-use cannabis. The committee approved a draft federal law by a vote of 14-9 (with 2 abstentions), paving the way for the legal cultivation, sale, possession and consumption of cannabis. …
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The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to legalize the personal possession and use of recreational marijuana, although the measure does not legalize sales of cannabis. The measure, HB 75 from Republican Rep. Kevin Verville, was passed by a voice vote in the House on Thursday afternoon, online cannabis news source …
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As 2025 kicks off and state legislative sessions get rolling, marijuana legalization advocates are eyeing a handful of jurisdictions as key battlegrounds where they see the prospects of enacting reform this year as most likely. Pennsylvania and Hawaii are widely seen by proponents as the most promising states for adult-use cannabis legalization in the year …
Indiana lawmakers are already making moves to enact drug policy reform in the 2025 session—with newly filed bills to legalize marijuana, allow medical cannabis and fund psilocybin research. While the prospects of the cannabis measures are unclear given the Republican-controlled legislature’s historic resistance to reform, the psychedelics legislation would simply provide the necessary funding for an already-enacted …
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed two new cannabis-related bills into law over the weekend—one to revive the Cannabis Growers Showcase program, where producers sell products directly to consumers at farmers market-style events, and another clarifying that cannabis is categorized as an agricultural crop in the state. Hochul vetoed a separate measure, however, that would have …
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