A blog chronicling the evolution and implementation of cannabis 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.
The ban on cannabis sales in DC remains in effect. The Delaware House voted against adult-use marijuana. New York is offering opportunities in the cannabis industry to those with marijuana convictions. The NCAA is relaxing its drug testing policy. And finally,…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: March 18, 2022
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
We’re just one step away from medical cannabis in Mississippi. South Dakota’s legislature is hard at work on medical marijuana licensing. And South Carolina has a medical cannabis bill in the works. Delaware, meanwhile, is looking at legalizing adult-use marijuana. And…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: January 28, 2022
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 news, the United Nations comes…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: July 2, 2021
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 to opioids for pain management. …
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: June 11, 2021
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 food, beverages and cosmetics.
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 2020.
Delaware lawmakers have introduced…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: May 24, 2019
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.
Expungement…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: September 7, 2018
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.
