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The Week in Weed: June 2025

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, Texas is the center of gravity in the hemp world. The First Circuit rules against cannabis businesses. ...more

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M-I-Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter-I-Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter-I-Humpback, Humpback-I: Checking in on Mississippi Cannabis

Another legislative session has come and gone in Mississippi (a limited, short special session is all but a certainty, as the Legislature passed no state budget), resulting in tweaks to the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act...more

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Georgia House Announces New Study Committees on Elections, Medical Marijuana/Hemp and Insurance Rates

On April 17, 2025, Speaker Jon Burns announced the formation of three new House study committees that will investigate pressing policy issues in Georgia. These committees build upon resolutions introduced during the 2025...more

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Cannabis Day: Top 10 Weed Roundup of Budding Trends’ Trendiest Blog Posts of the Year

As the hallowed cannabis holiday for stoners-turned-business-entrepreneurs falls upon us, we find ourselves in the shifting sands of change in the cannabis industry as usual. Not surprisingly, many states have seen...more

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Joint Effort: Why a New Crop of House Members, a New Speaker, and Continued Bipartisan Support Could Finally Light the Way for...

In November 2023, we pondered whether 2024 might be “the year” for medical marijuana legalization in North Carolina. Well, it wasn’t. Why, you ask? How can a state whose population has expressed overwhelming bipartisan...more

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Georgia Legislature Considering Substantial Overhaul to Medical Marijuana, Hemp Laws

I’ve had Georgia on my mind these days. I needed to get that out immediately because otherwise I would have been hearing that song in my head the entire time I was writing. As is the case in many capitals around the...more

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Alabama Proposal Would Ban All Psychoactive Hemp

For the hemp industry, it appears the beatings will continue until morale improves. Following the lead of a number of other states in recent years, the Alabama Legislature is set to consider a measure that would eliminate...more

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Cannabis Legislation Wrap Up for 2021

Over the past 12 months, dozens of cannabis and cannabis-related bills were introduced to Congress. Some measures were renewed, others were introduced for the first time; however, each legislation dealt with a niche aspect of...more

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Cannabis Legalization is The Big Winner on Election Day

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Election day 2020 proved that marijuana is no longer a partisan issue, with adult-use and medical marijuana ballot measures passing by overwhelming majorities in both red and blue states. Every state that had a marijuana...more

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The Week in Weed: December 2019

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. New Jersey is talking about decriminalizing marijuana. Regular readers will doubtless recall that legalization...more

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The Week in Weed: November 2019 #2

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. As is so often the case, the states were the big newsmakers this week. In Maine, the Office of Marijuana Policy...more

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Texas’ Expansion of Medical Marijuana May Impact Employers

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Texas has largely avoided the wave of marijuana legalization sweeping the country and the accompanying legal complications that have come along for the ride. Those days may be numbered as the Texas Legislature recently passed...more

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Texas Legislative Roundup: New Laws Impacting Employers

The Texas Legislature’s 86th session adjourned on May 27, 2019, and there is little likelihood that the governor will call a special session. The legislature primarily focused on educational reforms this year. Regarding...more

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