Medical Marijuana Zone

On December 29, United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 328—representing roughly 11,000 Rhode Island and Massachusetts frontline workers—announced a victory for Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center employees in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, preserving their right to openly discuss unions and other workers’ rights. Like most other industries, workers in medical cannabis operations and dispensaries want employee […]

The New Mexico Cannabis Control Division (CCD) announced on December 28 that it has finalized the rules for cannabis manufacturers, retailers and couriers. The final rules were published in Issue 24 of the New Mexico Register. Hundreds of applications for licenses are currently under review.  The rules are effective immediately, with last-minute revisions following several […]

A multimedia extravaganza on the history, culture, and politics of the cannabis plant is scheduled to debut in NYC next month.

More than 200,000 signatures later, a proposal to legalize cannabis in Ohio is heading back to the legislature. Activists in Ohio submitted their petitions totaling 206,943 signatures this week to the secretary of state for verification for a proposal that would legalize possession and purchases of cannabis for adults. Once the verification is done, “lawmakers […]

The state of New Jersey has finally begun to accept applications for recreational cannabis licenses on December 15. The Cannabis Regulatory Commission (CRC) announced that within the first four hours of applications opening, 500 people had already submitted their applications, with 635 accounts created by the end of the day. “We are happy to reach […]

Abandoned to their fate, desperately ill epileptic children can’t access life-saving cannabis treatments.

The top official overseeing Illinois’ cannabis policy is leaving the public sector to join the weed lobby.  Toi Hutchinson, who has served as a senior adviser to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker for cannabis control, announced this week that she will be taking a job with the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), billed as the “the number […]

Czech Editor convicted of promoting cannabis cultivation and THC-induced “toxicomania,” could face jail time.

In the latest chapter of an ongoing pattern, a fentanyl-laced cannabis scare in Vermont turned out to be a false alarm. Two cases of cannabis suspected of being laced with fentanyl in the state were cleared of the drug by a lab weeks later, after first causing a false-positive for the drug. “Fentanyl-laced marijuana blamed […]