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Oregon legislators and cannabis growers want to make history by reforming the law and becoming the first state in the U.S. to export cannabis product to other states. The current legislation in question was put together by the Craft Cannabis Alliance who is working with certain legislators and hopes to begin exporting cannabis by 2021. While federal law currently proh...

Texas has long been a heavily conservative state and it's legislators have figured staying in that lane was the only way to ensure re-election, but now some lawmakers are looking to break the stigma of marijuana and conservative values. Lawmakers in Texas are expected to begin heavily debating a true medical marijuana bill beginning on Jan. 8 this year, a comprehe...

Thailand will now become the first Southeast Asian country to legalize medical marijuana after the National Legislative Assembly voted 116-0 to legalize the medical use of cannabis. The Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn will have to give final approval but, along with reportedly over 99% of the Thai public, the approval of medical cannabis is sure. While there is no speci...

Israel made a major move last week to become a competitive player in the global cannabis industry after their Parliament passed an amendment that would allow the nation to export medical cannabis. The bill specifically calls for police to be able to supervise cannabis farms and to approve cultivation, growing and exporting of products. But a direct government authoriz...

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission made a decision last week to allow medical marijuana to be delivered to patients even in areas where the act had previously been banned. Concerned patients and advocates were finally heard by regulators and they will get access to their medication deliveries by December 28. Travelling outside of these restricted limits is not alway...

After being fired for testing positive for THC, a medical marijuana patient was told by a judge this week that he has the right to pursue a lawsuit against his former employer. Jeremiah Chance was working as a yard equipment operator in 2016. He reported a mechanical issue the day before that mechanism failed, but due to the workplace accident, the one he foresaw...

Maryland's young medical marijuana program ends it's first year with $96 million in sales. Maryland citizens have taken a liking to the program as nearly 52,000 patients have signed up so far and purchased around 730,000 products. When the program began they only had 8 cannabis shops and now the state has 71 dispensaries and there are currently 31 waiting...

The NFL has hinted that they have begun considering changing their policy on testing for cannabis use in it's players, but if they do decide to follow through that change will not come immediately. The current policy for drug testing players for cannabis has proven to be outdated now that the public looks upon cannabis much higher than ever before. Currently playe...

State Senator Karen Tallian is leading an uphill battle in the conservative state of Indiana to push for the legalization of recreational marijuana. Despite the potential difficulty of passing the more liberal bill in the republican-run legislature, she knows that cannabis is now more accepted than ever and a recent poll of random Hoosiers showed that 8 out of 10 adul...

New Zealand lawmakers are onboard with a a voter referendum that would allow the citizens to decide if they want to fully legalize cannabis or not. The last several years of polls show that a majority of voters support either decriminalizing or legalizing cannabis, meaning that a voter referendum would likely make New Zealand the third country worldwide to legalize th...

Some Nebraska lawmakers are taking big steps towards medical marijuana law reform as more states continue to change their laws every year. In January the team of legislators is introducing a medical cannabis bill similar to one that was introduced two sessions ago. While the support for medical cannabis has continued to grow and hopes for the bill are high, advocates ...

Several weeks after Massachusetts opened it's first two recreational marijuana shops the third opens and now industry regulators have approved 4 more which will have the state doubling it's total retail cannabis shops soon. Though the shops have recieved approval it will still take a few more weeks until they're ready to sell products to customers due to f...