Cannabis News

HARTFORD, CT – As part of the ongoing implementation of the Clean Slate Law, Connecticut will fully or partial erase around 44,000 citizen’s cannabis convictions. According to FOX61, these record erasures will happen automatically on January 1, 2023 for people with certain cannabis convictions. This erasure applies to anyone who was convicted between January 1, […]

Couriers speed through the streets every day, delivering important documents, letters, and packages to New York businesses and residents. Soon, couriers could be delivering more than Chinese takeout and paperwork. They could be allowed to drop off cannabis right at your front door. Plans are in the works to fast-track a seamless cannabis delivery service […]

CONNECTICUT – The state legalized recreational marijuana in 2021 and made major steps in the process with seven cannabis dispensaries completing all the steps for licensing. According to CT Insider, the seven businesses up for cannabis retail sales licenses include Affinity, Bluepoint Wellness of Connecticut, Fine Fettle Dispensary (they have three different locations – Newington, […]

COLUMBIA, MD – Remedy Maryland opened 10,000 sq. ft. cannabis store, replacing their previous, much smaller retail space. The company originally opened the first licensed medical cannabis dispensary in the state, according to WTOP. Not only will the store sell cannabis products, but they are also selling flower strains, concentrates, edibles, topicals, apparel, and accessories. […]

It’s been a banner year for supporters of cannabis reform, with multiple states approving recreational marijuana sales in the November elections. But now that elections are over, and the current Congress is in its lame-duck session, advocates are pushing federal lawmakers to pass several bills related to banking and criminal justice reform. According to Politico, part of the […]

NORTH CAROLINA – Medicinal marijuana is still not legal in the state of North Carolina so some district attorneys and law enforcement in select counties are decriminalizing marijuana. As NC is only one of 13 states left that have not legalized medicinal marijuana some counties are beginning to take matters into their own hands, according […]

Cannabis was big news in November, from states voting to legalize the substance to governors announcing that they are following in the footsteps of President Joe Biden. Attitudes about recreational marijuana are changing, and states are trying to keep pace with public sentiment. They are also trying to navigate the labyrinth of confusing and often-conflicting […]

IRELAND – People Before Profit MP (or Teachta Dála, TD) Gino Kenny introduced a bill to The Irish Parliament (or Oireachtas) with a goal of beginning the first steps of legalizing recreational cannabis. According to Forbes, if passed this bill will modify the current Misuse of Drug Act which was approved in 1977. The new […]

NEW YORK, NY – On Monday the New York Office of Cannabis Management voted to approve licenses for 36 cannabis dispensaries and successfully approved that first round of legal marijuana dispensaries. Of the 36 Conditional Adult Use Retail Dispensary licenses (CAURD licenses) 28 went to those in the state who were impacted by “biased enforcement […]

On November 16, 2022, the Congressional Research Service released a report about the limitations of President Joe Biden’s recent pardon for simple marijuana possession offenders. The report also contains an analysis of cannabis reform actions at the state and federal levels. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) explained two essential marijuana regulation developments occurring this fall, […]