Nearly two decades after the passage of Proposition 215, California will finally get comprehensive, statewide medical marijuana regulation, legal dispensaries come a step closer in Michigan, and more.
Finally, a statewide plan for regulating medical marijuana in California (wikimedia.org)
Legal marijuana moves ahead in Colorado and Washington, medical marijuana will be comprehensively regulated in California, Jerry Brown splits on a pair of immigration drug deportation bills, Mexican opium poppy production is up dramatically, and more.
The annual Horizons conference on psychedelics is this weekend in NYC.
A Pennsylvania poll shows the state evenly split on marijuana legalization, Massachusetts medical marijuana sales increase as a new dispensary comes online, the Horizons psychedelics conference is this weekend in New York City, and more.
Illinois' first medical marijuana crop comes in, Washington adopts emergency rules for medical marijuana as it merges with the recreational marijuana system, an Ohio initiative still can't get approved, and more.
Dispensaries could be coming soon in Michigan. Legislation is moving. (wikimedia.org)
The House leadership rolls out a sentencing reform package, new polls show pot legalization majorities in Florida and Ohio, the Duke City still can't have decriminalization, and more.
Ohio's attorney general worries that decriminalization could make Toledo a cartel hot-spot.
Toledo's decriminalization is challenged, Florida officials face heat for delays in implementing the state's CBD medical marijuana law, an Illinois panel approves medical marijuana for pain conditions (but will the governor go for it?), and more.
Federal prisons will be a little less crowded a month from now. (nadcp.org)
Major sentencing news today; early voting started today in Ohio, where pot legalization is on the ballot, a North Carolina hemp bill has gone to the governor, Colombia will still spray a nasty herbicide on coca crops, and more.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch is following the same path on marijuana states as her predecessor, the big California legalization initiative rolls out, Uruguay grants licenses to commercially grow marijuana, there will be no cannabis sales in Berlin (at least for now), and more.
Heroin killed a record number of people in Florida last year, but more died of prescription drug overdoses. (NJ State Police)
There are signs of dissension around the ReformCA legalization initiative, Oklahoma medical marijuana supporters are searching for signatures, a federal bill to require police to report lethal force incidents is introduced, and more.