Marijuana Moment reports
The governor of Louisiana has signed a bill into law that will streamline expungements for people with first-time marijuana possession convictions.
About two weeks after the measure from Rep. Delisha...
CT News Junkie
State Panel Endorses 16 Cannabis Businesses as Social Equity Applicants
A state panel approved Tuesday the first batch of applicants seeking to open cannabis cultivation businesses in Connecticut as social...
Ganjapreneur reports
Missouri has expunged nearly 100,000 cannabis convictions as part of the state’s adult-use cannabis constitutional amendment approved last year by voters.
Missouri has expunged nearly 100,000...
Via DC’ist..
The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave unanimous final approval to a bill that largely prohibits employers from punishing, firing, or refusing to hire people who use marijuana or test positive for the drug.
The...
The Arkansa Times report
It’s hard out there for women in weed.
Just ask Annie Iselin, senior director of operations at BOLD Team in Cotton Plant, or Danielle Buntyon, a former oil and gas industry employee who started...
Green Market report write
Existing license holders under the state’s social equity program will also benefit from the amendment.
In an effort to promote diversity in Washington’s cannabis industry, Gov. Jay Inslee signed...
More than 2,500 Pennsylvanians with minor, nonviolent marijuana criminal convictions have applied for a pardon under a new program launched by Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman this month.
And the deadline...
Ganjapreneur reports
In a letter to President Joe Biden (D), 17 members of Congress requested his Administration extend pardons of simple cannabis possession convictions to immigrants and reopen the immigration cases of...
The Rome Sentinel reports
Hispanic farmers and rural residents in New Mexico are concerned legislation that would allow small cannabis producers to significantly boost their plant counts lacks a provision to ensure the producers...
New Social Equity in Cannabis Technical Assistance Mentorship Program designed to help communities historically impacted by high poverty and enforcement of cannabis prohibitions
OLYMPIA, WA – In 2020, the Washington State...
Their message is simple
Cannabis is legal. 500,000 Canadians are not.Legalize us.
It’s been 4 years since cannabis legalization. And while many of us have and continue to the enjoy the benefits of legalization,...
Ganjapreneur report
The Illinois Equal Justice Foundation has awarded $1.4 million in grants to 18 organizations to help expunge cannabis-related criminal records.
Eighteen Illinois organizations have been awarded $1.4 million...
This is the best article we have seen on the topic for quite some time
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New York will establish a $200 million fund to support social equity applicants seeking adult-use cannabis business licenses, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday during her State of the State address in Albany.
The fund...
An incisive article from High Country News detailing a sheriff’s sudden interest in Environmental Crimes once illegal cannabis farms and the Hmong farmers who crop them are mentioned.. it’s also instructive to see how...
A police officer out on patrol in rural Warwickshire discovered a dozen black bin bags fly-tipped in hedges on a country lane this weekend. Upon closer inspection, the officer realised the bags were full of “equipment and...
Their Statement
The U.S. Roundtable was dismayed when the Veterans Affairs’ Center for Verification and Evaluation denied verification as a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business to Holistic Serendipity LLC dba...
CANNABIS CULTURE Reports….
– Across Africa, the cannabis market has become a more and more militarized scene: from Zambia´s army foray into cultivation, Zimbabwe´s army dropping the first seeds of hemp, to South Africa...
Here’s the intro
The idea that ‘No one should be locked up for a plant’ is both a cherished belief in cannabis circles and a central argument for the legal industry’s existence.
Since its founding in 2019, Last Prisoner...
The Vermont Cannabis Control Board (CCB) began today’s meeting with some much needed and highly anticipated news, awarding the first operational cannabis license for the adult use market in Vermont. Rutland Craft Cannabis...
Trichromes write
Arizona’s Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, Arizona, or the third-largest prosecutorial agency in the country, recently revealed that 10,600 plus petitions had been filed since a new law decriminalized...
In November 2018 the law was changed to allow cannabis to be prescribed by specialist doctors for medical purposes. While the NHS and NICE have been reluctant to issue prescriptions, a private cannabis clinic industry has...
Source: The Appeal
The Truth About Marijuana and the Criminal Legal System
It’s 4/20, arguably the most notorious unofficial holiday for consumers in America after Black Friday. Denver, Colorado, hosts the Mile High...
Marijuana Moment
A first-of-its-kind taxpayer-funded marijuana PSA aired in most of New York during an NBA Finals game on Thursday, boldly addressing the racially discriminatory harms of cannabis criminalization and highlighting...
MONTPELIER — The Vermont Cannabis Control Board (CCB) began today’s meeting with some much needed and highly anticipated news, awarding the first operational cannabis license for the adult use market in Vermont. Rutland...
I wrote a paper on how to effectively incorporate social equity into cannabis laws and regulations. It is designed to be practical and focused on solutions. Thanks to @OSULawDEPC, this resource is available free to anyone...
Ganjapreneur reports..
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a measure by Mayor London Breed to update the city’s social equity program.
The San Francisco, California Board of Supervisors unanimously approved...
Now that adult-use marijuana is legal in New York State, questions arise about people on probation or parole being able to partake. People who were previously convicted of marijuana offenses have had their records expunged,...
As reported on al.com
Kristy McKinney’s career change from law enforcement to cannabis farmer involved much more than just swapping out her badge for a license to grow.
The former Birmingham police officer had to learn...
Marijuana Moment reports
Key members of the New York Assembly and Senate recently filed bills that would provide provisional marijuana cultivator and processor licenses for existing hemp businesses that take certain steps...