Cannabis News

LITTLE ROCK, AR – The option to legalize recreational marijuana will fall to voters in the November election as Arkansas Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to add it to the ballot. Responsible Growth Arkansas was the group behind the push to get it on the ballot, ABC News reports. Justices of the Arkansas Supreme Court […]

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – A handful of Republican legislative leaders finally gave their green light at a public input meeting on Tuesday, September 20. While those leaders reported they would have preferred to wait for federal legalization first, they still finally gave the green light, according to FOX59. However, no legislative was taken at the meeting […]

Two Democratic Congressmen recently introduced a federal bill that, if passed, would allow small, licensed marijuana cultivators to conduct mail-order commerce with customers both in and out of state. Jared Huffman, Democratic Representative for California’s 2nd Congressional District, and Earl Blumenauer, Democratic Representative for Oregon’s 3rd District, introduced H.R. 8825, or the Small and Homestead […]

HAWAII – A growing group of state leaders, dispensaries, and patients are drafting plans to encourage legislation to legalize marijuana. According to KITV, this group of lawmakers are pushing for legalization of recreational marijuana in light of the increase of revenue and diverse economy it will bring to the state. Recently the Hawaii Cannabis Industry […]

Support for marijuana legalization is at an all-time high in the United States. As of September 2022, cannabis has been legalized for recreational use in 19 states, Washington D.C., the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam. Marijuana has also been decriminalized in 12 other states and the U.S. Virgin Islands. It is also legal to distribute […]

A recent study by PLoS ONE showed that states with legal cannabis for medicinal and recreational use had people encountering a decreasing reliance on prescription or over-the-counter medications, according to Healthline. The study analyzed stock market returns for 500 pharmaceutical companies from 1996 through 2019 and was published August 31, 2022. In states where cannabis […]

PHOENIX, AZ – The latest Gallop poll released on August 16 showed that Americans preferred smoking marijuana over cigarettes. According to FOX10, the poll results shared several statistics regarding Americans and marijuana. The number of people that currently smoke marijuana is up to 16% versus 12% last year. In contrast only 11% of adults shared […]

Cannabis reform activists in Maryland are actively campaigning for voters to pass the Marijuana Legalization Amendment, or Question 4, when they head to the polls on November 8th. As noted by Kyle Jaeger in Marijuana Moment, the MDCAN 22 “Vote Yes on 4” campaign launched on September 8th, selling the ballot measure as both an […]

CASS COUNTY, MI – High Indotainment is hosting a licensed marijuana concert at the Cass County Fairgrounds on Saturday, September 17, in order to help educate the community on marijuana. They hope this education presents a large step in removing the stigma often associated with marijuana. In addition to educating community members as a whole […]

Judge Cotton Walker dismissed a lawsuit on Friday aimed at reversing approval for the question of recreational cannabis legalization set to appear on Missouri’s November 8th ballot. Per the Associated Press, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft certified the initiative on August 9th, announcing that the activist group Legal Missouri 2022 had gathered the required number of […]