A blog chronicling the evolution and implementation of marijuana laws in the United States
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
This week we have lots of state action – there’s news from Rhode Island, Mississippi, Delaware, South Dakota, North Carolina and Missouri. But the feds have been taking action talking about taking action too. In international…
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Connecticut’s legislature will hold a special session to decide on legalization. Mississippi’s governor backs medical marijuana. Delaware teeters on the edge of legalizing adult-use cannabis. The NFL will award $1 million in grants to research alternative…
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
We start out west, where California may not wait for the feds to act on CBD. The state is in the process of legalizing the use of CBD and permitting the sale of hemp-derived CBD in…
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Let’s start, as we so often do, with the states. Nebraska has decided against legalizing medical marijuana. Texas is moving towards legalizing hemp. Iowa is one step ahead of them – hemp cultivation will begin in…
Welcome to our end of the year wrap-up post for The Week in Weed; it’s hard to believe another year has come and (almost) gone, but the calendar doesn’t lie. In what we are calling an homage to Dave Barry and his always hilarious Year in Review, we’ll organize these stories by month.
Without further ado, here’s a look at the stories that grabbed our attention in 2018.…
Continue Reading The Week, No Make that the Year, in Weed: 2018
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Following up on last week’s look at an expungement proposal in California, this week we note that Delaware has enacted such a statute.
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Can employers deny employment to people who use cannabis under a medical prescription authorized by state law? In more and more states, the answer is now “No.”
Changes in cannabis laws are creating a new haze for employers. What follows is a quick summary citing some (not all) states that now require employers to think twice before denying employment to individuals because they tested positive for the use of marijuana that they are ingesting for state-authorized medical reasons.…
Continue Reading Budding Development: States Requiring Employers to Tolerate Medical Cannabis Use
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
A state task force is continuing to examine issues surrounding legalized recreational use of marijuana.
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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Recreational marijuana becomes legal to buy Saturday in Nevada, but that doesn’t mean anything…
