DC’s recreational marijuana ambitions blocked in federal bill
Washington DC would continue to be barred from launching a recreational marijuana market under the U.S. congressional budget released Wednesday.
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Washington DC would continue to be barred from launching a recreational marijuana market under the U.S. congressional budget released Wednesday.
The White House is warning that it might deny security clearance to employees who invest in marijuana companies, Politico reported.
While not impossible, comprehensive marijuana reform that includes federal legalization of the plant in the form of one bill would be a politically heavy lift in today’s divisive Congress.
So it’s important to focus on the most politically palatable and plausible ways to make progress, said Saphira Galoob, principal and CEO of The Liaison Group, a cannabis lobbying firm in Washington DC.
One of the nation’s foremost cannabis activist groups, the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), on Wednesday announced it has chosen former Illinois state Sen. Toi Hutchinson as its new president and CEO.
The Washington DC City Council is set to lay the groundwork Friday for a long-delayed recreational marijuana industry, now that Congress appears ready to step out of the district’s way and permit a $200 million market.
Washington DC-based analytics firm New Frontier Data said Friday that it’s agreed to acquire the marijuana division of Canadian company Skylight Health Group for $8.6 million in cash.
The U.S. Senate’s Appropriations Committee released a spending bill that removes a longstanding prohibition on adult-use cannabis sales in the District of Columbia.