A key GOP congressman has filed bill that would continue to block marijuana businesses from taking federal tax deductions under Internal Revenue Service (IRS) code 280E, even if cannabis is federally rescheduled. And his unique influence on a powerful committee could grease the wheels to its enactment through must-pass budget legislation. Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX), […]
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Dozens Of New Jersey Marijuana Businesses Push To Legalize Home Cultivation, Despite Resistance From Governor And Legislative Leaders
Dozens of New Jersey small marijuana businesses and advocacy groups are calling on the state legislature to allow adults to cultivate their own cannabis at home—seemingly contradicting repeated claims from the governor and legislative leaders that the reform could undermine the evolving legal marketplace. And as Gov. Phil Murphy (D) is set to term out […]
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Top Missouri Marijuana Official Says Predatory Business Practices Must Be Rooted Out For Licensing System To Be Sustainable
“We see situations where someone who is listed as the owner of the license tells us that they don’t own anything.” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent Missouri’s microbusiness cannabis program will never get off the ground if regulators are consistently forced to revoke licenses over concerns about unlawful predatory practices, the head of the state’s […]
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Using The Marijuana Components THC-V And CBD Every Day Helps People Lose Weight, Study Finds
Research on the use of marijuana components to aid weight loss found that use of a combined product containing the cannabinoids THCV and CBD “was associated with statistically significant weight loss” as well as a slimmer waistline, lower blood pressure and decreased cholesterol. The study, published late last month in the journal Cannabis, analyzed outcomes […]
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Top Pennsylvania Police And Health Officials Say They’re Prepared To Implement Marijuana Legalization
Top Pennsylvania police and health officials say they are prepared to implement marijuana legalization if state lawmakers move forward with the reform—and that they stand ready to work with the legislature and governor’s office as the details of legislation to achieve it are crafted. At a series of hearings before key committees last week, lawmakers […]
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Air Force sends memo on cannabis & hemp product ban (Newsletter: February 24, 2025)
OK marijuana user gun rights; NH& WA homegrow votes; PA GOP senator on legalization; AR & MI allocate cannabis revenue; DEA museum visit Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment […]
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The DEA’s Official Museum Is An ‘Embarrassment Of Reefer Madness Misinformation’ (Op-Ed)
“The fiction that permeates the museum is that DEA is somehow winning a drug war that is justified.” By Helen Redmond, Filter Why would anyone visit the DEA Museum? My excuse was to see all the lies and misinformation in one place. And I wanted to understand how the curators sold and sanitized the war […]
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Washington Courts Making Uneven Progress In Effort To Vacate Hundreds Of Thousands Of Illegal Drug Convictions
“You have some courts, in my humble opinion, that aren’t processing them because they just don’t want to.” By Moe K. Clark, InvestigateWest When Lisa Giap opened an email from the Pierce County Superior Court in January 2024 that said her previous drug conviction from 2015 had been cleared from her criminal record, she was […]
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Missouri Cannabis Extraction Company Loses Appeal Of Revoked License, With Commission Citing ‘Corporate Culture Of Lax Compliance’
“We conclude this non-compliance was intentional.” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent The company at the center of a massive cannabis product recall in 2023 lost its appeal to get its license back on Tuesday, with Missouri’s Administrative Hearing Commission concluding it had a “corporate culture of lax compliance with regulatory requirements.” The scathing 137-page ruling, issued […]
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New Hampshire House Passes Bills To Late Patients To Grow Medical Marijuana At Home And Annul Past Cannabis Convictions
In addition to passing a Republican-led bill to legalize marijuana for adults, New Hampshire’s House of Representatives on Thursday also approved measures that would annul certain criminal records around cannabis and allow medical marijuana patients to grow the plant at home. HB 196, from Rep. Jonah Wheeler (D), would annul past arrests and convictions around […]
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