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Ohio's medical mairjuana has experienced many delays but finally began operating in January when it's first dispensary opened it's doors. Since then the state's 5,500 patients have only had access to cannabis buds, raw plant material, as opposed to how most states with legal cannabis have access to many different forms of cannabis like edibles, oils, w...

New Mexico could be the next state to legalize recreational marijuana through the legislature as a proposal makes it's way through the Senate. The bill has already been approved by the House and a Senate panel.  If passed it would allow adults over 21 to be able to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana that can be purchased at a dispensary run by the state. Taxe...

Alaska Legislators are intending to move forward with regulations that would allow certain retail marijuana dispensaries to also have designated onsite consumption areas. No other state in the U.S. has anything like this and regulators are taking their time to make sure it gets done properly. Alaska's Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer could soon sign the new rules meaning they...

Michigan is home to the second largest medical marijuana market in the United States. Despite it's limited number of licensed dispensaries available to the large amount of patients the sales have grown to over $42 million in just the last four months. The state's first licensed medical marijuana dispensary opened on November 1st and 53 more have opened since t...

Lawmakers in Pennsylvania have introduced House Bill 50 which would legalize the adult use of recreational marijuana in the state. The Lieutenant Governor, John Fetterman, listened to residents at a public hearing last week to determine public opinion on the potential legalization and many came in support of the bill while some were purely curious about what the ...

Michigan's medical marijuana program has gone through an excessive amount of setbacks and changes that have ultimately hurt the patient by limiting access to medication. In a move to help bypass some of the political red tape involved in the program Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order to dissolve the Medical Marijuana Licensing Board. Instead, a ne...

Florida's medical marijuana program has been a long process of growing and changing over the last several years and now some lawmakers are considering the addition of a recreational cannabis market. The newly proposed bill would allow adults over 21 to possess, consume, and purchase up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis and grow up to 6 plants at home. A limited number of ...

Several years ago Georgia legislators passed a bill that legalized one of the most restrictive medical marijuana programs in the United States. The bill allowed registered patients with any of the 16 qualifying conditions to possess and use low-potency medical marijuana oil, however the major flaw with this bill is that it did not legalize or regulate any means for pa...

Several U.S. Senators have signed onto a new bill called The Marijuana Justice Act that would legalize marijuana at the federal level and expunge the records of those who have previously been convicted of cannabis use or possession. Introduced by Senator Cory Booker, the bill has sponsoring senators are among incoming Democratic presidential candidates inclu...

Hawaii is one of the most liberal leaning states in the U.S. and even legalized the use of medical marijuana nearly 20 years ago, however the state's legislators fell short last week of legalizing recreational marijuana. The legalization bill made it further than previous attempts in Hawaii however it was not passed before a necessary deadline. Vermont is the only...

Delaware's medical marijuana program has been moving slowly but surely as the 4th dispensary, Compassionate Care Research Institute (CCRI), opened last week. The program began back in 2011 and this new dispensary gained it's approval in 2017. CCRI's new location is the second dispensary in New Castle County though the company also operates medical marijuan...

Illinois legislators are in talks about what it would take to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana in the state and have commissioned a study to determine if the current amount of licensed growers could keep up with the potential new industry. The state's 16 currently operating growers are eager to take on more business and say that they can handle th...