If 60% of Florida voters follow Donald Trump’s lead and cast ballots to legalize recreational marijuana in the state on Election Day, cannabis possession will become legal for adults 21 and older in the nation’s largest medical-only market in May 2025.
Trulieve Cannabis has donated $141.9 million of the total $149.7 million spent on the campaign to pass Florida’s adult-use measure.
Maine regulators are expanding a recent recall of adult-use cannabis products possibly tainted with bacteria, yeast and mold.
Eight licensed marijuana companies in New Mexico claim in a federal lawsuit that Border Patrol agents violated their constitutional rights when they seized more than $1 million worth of “state-legal cannabis products, cash, and other property” at interior checkpoints, court records show.
South Dakota’s adult-use cannabis legalization ballot initiative doesn’t create a framework for commercial cannabis sales.
An Arizona judge has declined to revoke and reassign an adult-use marijuana social equity permit that a lawsuit claimed was stolen from a qualifying applicant via predatory means, court records show.
A voter initiative that would have expanded medical cannabis access in Arkansas has been disallowed by the state’s Supreme Court, which declared that a proposed constitutional amendment is “plainly misleading.”
A “conservative” vision of marijuana legalization means few new business opportunities and no favors for existing medical cannabis outlets.
The Catholic Church opposes adult-use marijuana legalization in Florida, where spending by cannabis multistate operators in support has eclipsed $100 million.
Absent federal regulations for the $28.4 billion market for goods containing intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids, a major hemp advocacy organization has created a certification program for such products.
Medical cannabis sales in Germany are on pace to exceed a record 420 million euros (roughly $455.2 million) in 2024, a new report shows.
A significant legal challenge to the ballot measures seeking to legalize medical marijuana in Nebraska won’t be resolved before Election Day, a state judge acknowledged.
