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Amendment 2, the voter initiative that legalized medical marijuana in Missouri, was passed and became law in November of 2018. The law's implementation timeline gives the state about 1 year to license, regulate, grow and prepare the cannabis that patients will be purchasing, but will that be enough time? As of now the timeline seems plausible as long as the state ...

Florida's medical marijuana program has received some criticisms and even some lawsuits, but that's not stopping it from being successful. Many patients are being helped for various conditions and that number seems to continue to grow at a steady pace. Over 136,000 patients around Florida are now medical marijuana patients and now over 1,070 physicians are reg...

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...

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...

Following up from the September announcement of the "Begin Again" initiative, the top prosector in Brooklyn, New York will be dismissing hundreds of marijuana convictions for offenders of low level crimes. This week Brooklyn's DA Eric Gonzalez will meet in court to discuss dropping outstanding warrants and similar small time cannabis crimes. Similar to s...

On it's way to the desk of President Trump is a highly important bill that marks a change in the way the nation looks at and deals with hemp. The 2018 Farm Bill has little-to-nothing to do with marijuana, however it does change the way that hemp is handled in every state, removing hemp from the federal list of controlled substances, allowing anyone in any state to...

Maine voters legalized recreational marijuana back in 2016 and is overdue for their regulated program to begin. To see to it that the new program is created in a timely manner and done properly officials have picked the consulting firm BOTEC to lead the regulations for the state's recreational marijuana program and even help rework some aspects of the medical mari...

Michigan has been working to finish regulating it's medical marijuana industry over the last few years and now that recreational marijuana is legal in the state the regulatory group is combining it's efforts for both programs. The Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation will now be called the Bureau of Marijuana Regulation as it will be overseeing both markets....

The Green Bay City Council has moved to make the penalty for possessing under an ounce of marijuana more in line with what voters want. While the change reduces the fine from $1000 down to $500, it's not the smallest fine in the state when it comes to possession. Advocates discussed a $250 fine until last month when $500 was decided upon. Many parts of Wisconsin v...

Massachusetts officially legalized recreational marijuana and began sales just over 2 weeks ago and sales numbers have been through the roof even with only 2 retail stores open across the state. The first week was actually a short week due to the Thanksgiving holiday and sales were still around $2.2 million. The second week which marked the first official full week of...

Despite the cannabis law reform developing allover the country there are still many instances where someone's employer chooses to terminate or suspend them due to medical marijuana showing up on a drug test. Craig Miller, a man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Illinois, is still fighting for his job and to pay his bills after being suspended from his company. He ...

Pain management is one of the most common uses for cannabis and to some the idea of taking cannabis for menstrual pain is revolutionary, but others are saying the practice has been around for thousands of years. While the FDA  has not specifically approved any cannabis mestrual pain medication there are several companies that have released products for just that....