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The Delaware House of Representatives has approved a bill to significantly expand the state’s medical marijuana program ahead of the launch of adult-use sales that may take another year to implement. About two weeks after the legislation from Rep. Ed Osienski (D) cleared committee, the full chamber passed it in a 26-10 vote on Thursday, sending the measure to the Senate for consideration. The bill would make a series of changes to Delaware’s medical cannabis program, including removing limitations for patient eligibility based on a specific set of qualifying health conditions. Instead, doctors could issue marijuana recommendations for any condition they see…

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As a New Hampshire House subcommittee took up a marijuana legalization bill during a work group meeting Wednesday, the panel’s chair presented the measure’s sponsor with a choice: either work to amend the proposal into something likely to win the support of Gov. Chris Sununu (R), who favors a system of state-controlled stores, or try to pass the current bill through the House only to see it fail in the Senate. Rep. John Hunt (R), who chairs the full House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee, said he had prepared an amendment to bring the bill more in line with what…

“We’ve also increased Governor’s Office capacity for research about potential appointments.” By Peter Callaghan, MinnPost This story was originally published by MinnPost. Gov. Tim Walz (D) and his staff didn’t follow standard procedures before they appointed—and then accepted the resignation of—the state’s first Office of Cannabis Management director. That’s the conclusion of the Office of Legislative Auditor that reviewed the September appointment of Erin DuPree to be the state’s first-ever cannabis czar. Walz had admitted previously that the appointment was not “the finest hour” of his administration. He has yet to fill the vacancy. The report concluded that the governor’s office and the Bureau…

A South Dakota Senate committee has rejected a House-passed bill to require medical marijuana dispensaries to post notices at their businesses warning patients about the federal gun ban for cannabis consumers—though members also approved a revised version of separate legislation to mandate that patients check off a box on their medical cannabis card applications to affirm they’re aware of the firearms rule. The Senate Health and Human Services Committee took up three pieces of cannabis legislation during a hearing on Wednesday. The third bill—which would have added restrictions to ensure doctors have a bone fide relationship with patients before recommending…

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) are reintroducing a bill to allow people living in federally assisted housing to use marijuana in compliance with state law without fear of losing their homes. As it stands, people living in public housing are prohibited from using controlled substances in those facilities regardless of state law, and landlords are able to evict such individuals. The bicameral legislation—titled the “Marijuana in Federally Assisted Housing Parity Act”—would change that. It would provide protections for people living in public housing or Section 8 housing from being displaced simply for using cannabis in…

A Senate panel in Virginia met Thursday to begin hammering out differences between two separate bills that would legalize commercial marijuana sales in the state, hearing public testimony and digging into issues such as social equity, licensing and regulatory enforcement. While both measures—SB 423 from Sen. Adam Ebbin (D) and SB 448 from Sen. Aaron Rouse (D)—would establish frameworks allowing retail cannabis sales to begin, the proposals represent slightly different policy priorities. Ebbin’s bill, for example, prioritizes opening the legal market quickly, by allowing the state’s existing medical marijuana operators to sell recreational products almost immediately. Rouse’s measure, by contrast,…

“I think discovery would be helpful…based on what’s been pleaded.” By Alander Rocha, Alabama Reflector A Montgomery County Circuit Judge Wednesday ordered five Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission (AMCC) members and director John McMillan to provide testimony on the licensing process. Judge James Anderson also granted a motion allowing plaintiffs to submit written questions and ask for documents prior to the hearing on whether the commission followed the law and its own rules in each round of license awards. “I think discovery would be helpful…based on what’s been pleaded,” Anderson said. The judge allowed seven hours per live testimony. Depending on…

“The only thing we don’t have right now is the employees because we don’t have a license.” By Rosalind Adams, The City The sudden cancellation of a state cannabis licensing board meeting scheduled for Wednesday left applicants hoping to run weed businesses fuming. After learning of the cancellation Tuesday evening, LakeHouse Cannabis CEO Paul Suits Jr. sent a two page document outlining his frustrations trying to win a dispensary license to the Office of Cannabis Management—remarks he had planned to read aloud at the state Cannabis Control Board meeting. Suits applied in October for a retail license to sell in…

A Maine House committee is considering a bill to legalize psilocybin, allowing adults to access the psychedelic at licensed facilities while broadly ending the criminalization of personal use and possession of psilocybin. During a hearing before the legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee on Wednesday, members—two of whom disclosed personally using psilocybin in the past—discussed the psychedelics proposal, sponsored by Sen. Donna Bailey (D), who filed a similar version of the proposal in 2022 that passed the Senate but stalled out in the House. The legislation would allow adults 21 and older to access psilocybin service centers where it could be…