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Legal, recreational cannabis in Florida is one step closer to securing its place on the 2024 ballot, though the state’s attorney general has stated her intent to challenge the proposed amendment in the upcoming Supreme Court review. The political committee Smart & Safe Florida is sponsoring the

Google Cloud’s two new AI-powered tools could help biotech and pharmaceutical companies develop new drugs faster. The way drugs are developed is being rewritten as we speak. Discovering and approving new drugs is a lengthy process that requires years of development and a dismal success rate, but

The winners of the election may reverse the recent policy that made Thailand the first Asian country to decriminalize recreational cannabis. Thai voters have delivered a surprising and stunning verdict in favor of an opposition party that advocates for significant institutional reforms in the

When Brian Stark found out his application for a cannabis retail dispensary license was one of the first to be approved in New York, he was thrilled. Then came zoning limbo. The state approved Stark’s application and 27 others in November through the Conditional Adult-Use Retail Dispensary program

This Firm Has Received The Industry's First 'A' Credit Rating. (Benzinga) In a key development for the regulated cannabis sector, Pelorus Capital Group has announced that its 7% senior secured notes have achieved an "A" institutional rating, the highest ever seen in the cannabis industry. This

InterCure will distribute Tyson's edible products to international markets. Boxing legend Mike Tyson is punching his way into the business world, announcing a partnership with Israeli medical marijuana company InterCure. InterCure will exclusively cultivate, manufacture and distribute the former

Sales in Connecticut were split nearly 50-50 between medical and adult-use pot. Legal marijuana sales in Connecticut remain stable, with the state reporting $21 million in revenue from medical and adult-use cannabis in April. The figures, reported on Wednesday by the state Department of Consumer

When police and truck inspectors made a recent stop, they were surprised to find what the truck was hauling. Ontario Provincial Police assisted Ontario Ministry of Transportation inspectors when they pulled over a truck on the Queen Elizabeth Way near Burlington, Ontario, Canada. When they opened

Cannabis regulators in New York on Thursday issued 50 additional licenses to operate an adult-use marijuana business in the state, growing the number to 215 licenses awarded since the marketplace went into effect. The new licenses were announced as a social equity and economic plan, a move meant to

New Jersey Gov Phil Murphy has signed legislation to separate state tax law from federal regulations that deny standard tax deductions for cannabis businesses. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy this week signed legislation to grant standard business tax deductions to licensed cannabis companies in a

Cheshire’s Planning and Zoning Commission has been looking for feedback from the public as it weighs whether to allow commercial cannabis uses, such as a recreational retail establishment, in town. The group got some of what it was looking for during a public hearing on Monday, May 8. Over a dozen

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers investigated whether cannabis treatment could improve the health-associated quality of life (QoL) over time in Australia. Medical cannabis encompasses a wide spectrum of products, including dried flowers, oils, and edibles that contain

With eight state championships at three different schools, Jack Cochran is one of the most successful coaches in Connecticut high school football history. Controversy often came with his high achievements, but when it came to results, Cochran delivered. Now 57, Cochran is in the delivery business

Connecticut’s hemp farmers and CBD product producers say a bill intended to curb sales of illegal cannabis edibles would significantly affect their business. “This will cripple my business,” said Duncan Markovich, co-founder of Better Ways CBD, a Branford-based cannabis therapeutics brand. “The

It looks like Nate Diaz may have to lay off the weed, at least while he gets ready to box Jake Paul later this summer. Wednesday, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, which is in charge of overseeing combat sports in the state, told MMA Junkie, following an initial report by MMA

Pusher Street’s run of open cannabis and hash trade in Copenhagen, Denmark could come to an end. While open drug trade of cannabis, hash, and soft drugs is tolerated in Christiania, an autonomous region in Copenhagen, Denmark, that all could end if the area can’t clean up its act, the capital city’s

Gov Ron DeSantis is slated to review a bill that would give Black farmers an entry into Florida’s flourishing medical marijuana industry. Black farmers who didn’t make the cut last year could have another opportunity to vie for medical-marijuana licenses, under a bill approved by lawmakers in the

Rhode Island marijuana shops could soon join their Massachusetts competitors advertising on billboards throughout the Ocean State. The Rhode Island House of Representatives voted unanimously Tuesday to give the state's cannabis regulation office the power to make rules on marijuana advertising while

Recreational marijuana advocates have started to collect signatures to put weed on the ballot this November. The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Coalition is now collecting petition signatures from people like Sam from Cleveland to change state law. “Yeah, I’m for it,” she said. “I think people can

Those kinds of studies don't exist with these products,” says a prescribing doctor, “because it has been illegal to study them for most of the last 100 years. Seven years after its legalization, the medical marijuana industry in Pennsylvania is booming. According to data from the Pennsylvania