The 2022 midterm elections are right around the corner, and the outcome could prove incredibly important to U.S. marijuana businesses.
If Republicans take control of at least one of the two chambers of Congress – as is largely expected to happen in the U.S. House of Representatives – that would dramatically affect the chances of lawmakers passing marijuana reforms, much less getting them signed into federal law.
An Arkansas court battle over whether a recreational cannabis legalization ballot measure will go before voters continues, with an anti-marijuana group filing a motion with the state Supreme Court that calls the initiative “misleading, fraudulent, and illegal” under state law.
A proposed measure in Oklahoma to legalize adult-use marijuana is one step closer to making the November ballot after the secretary of state certified that backers had gathered enough signatures to qualify.
Enforcement actions in California have pushed the amount of illicit marijuana seized by law enforcement past the $1 billion mark since last summer, state cannabis authorities announced Thursday.
Cannabis multistate operator MedMen Enterprises finished its exit from the Florida market, having closed the sale of its assets for $67 million – a whopping $16 million less than when the sale was announced in February.
An anti-drug organization filed a lawsuit in an attempt to block an adult-use marijuana legalization initiative in Missouri from going before voters in November.
A new state-level campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Idaho has kicked off, with advocates hoping to place an initiative on the 2024 ballot.
Cannabis multistate operators in Virginia are focused on building out their medical marijuana facilities while they wait to see whether the commonwealth’s adult-use program actually launches in 2024 as planned, now that Republicans control much of the state government.
More lawsuits have been filed against the state of Connecticut by applicants who failed to win marijuana cultivation permits through the social equity program.
A federal judge threw out a Maine law that required all licensed cannabis company owners to be state residents, opening up both the medical and recreational markets to out-of-state business interests.
A proposed ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida in 2024 has triggered harsh criticism from within the industry, signaling ongoing divides over how adult-use markets should be structured.
A former executive of several marijuana businesses in California has been ousted and ordered by a judge to pay $2.4 million in fines for unlicensed cultivation.
