Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, Louisiana explores a pilot program for adult-use cannabis. Kansas lawmakers introduce bills to legalize both medical and adult-use marijuana. Voters in Massachusetts appear unlikely to repeal legalization. And finally, actor Ethan Hawke received an interesting award.Continue Reading The Week in Weed: March 6, 2026
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the Ohio legislature considers changes to their cannabis laws. We have an update on the Massachusetts ballot initiative. State Attorneys General share their thoughts on hemp. And finally, is there weed in the Halloween candy?Continue Reading The Week in Weed: October 31, 2025
Welcome back to the Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we focus our attention on three states, each of which is having a different issue with cannabis. In Texas, it’s the decision not to ban hemp. In Nebraska, there’s a struggle with medical marijuana regulations. And in Massachusetts, there’s a ballot initiative to rescind adult-use altogether. And finally, New York and California are embroiled in a cannabis competition. Continue Reading The Week in Weed: September 12, 2025
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we consider changing the name of this column to “The Broken Record Report,” as we provide updates on, you guessed it, DEA re-scheduling and the Nebraska ballot initiative. We’ll throw in some news on SAFER Banking and Mitch McConnell – if you think you know where this is going, you’re right. And finally, we note that Massachusetts is considering an expansion to the number of places where cannabis can be consumed.Continue Reading The Week in Weed: December 13, 2024
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. We have some information on the SAFER Banking Act – will the “R” make all the difference? Nebraska voters may have the opportunity to vote on medical marijuana. There’s some upheaval in the Massachusetts cannabis world. And finally, a Wisconsin politician is on a “Grass Routes” tour.Continue Reading The Week in Weed: September 22, 2023
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
This week, we’re talking a lot about state ballot initiatives. First, we have an update on the Arkansas situation. Then, we’ll fill you in on what’s happening in North Dakota and Maryland. But there’s also news from states where cannabis is
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: August 19, 2022
Welcome back to The Year In Weed, our annual roundup of cannabis-related stories. As usual, we’ll adopt Dave Barry’s Year in Review format and look at stories month by month. Last year, I predicted that “…much will happen in 2020.” Little did I know in December 2019 just how true that would turn out to be. Whether you think
Continue Reading The Year in Weed: 2020 Edition
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
The House will vote on the MORE Act today. The United Nations voted to reschedule cannabis. You can now get marijuana delivered in Massachusetts. A group in Virginia released a report on how to legalize. Mexico takes another step toward legalization.
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: December 4, 2020
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
The news is mostly happening in the states this week. Oklahoma is having some medical marijuana issues. Massachusetts recreational shops reopened. Virginia decriminalized marijuana. Ohio may not put cannabis on the ballot this November. In federal news, the marijuana banking provisions
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: May 29, 2020
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
The news getting the most attention this week is the reopening of Massachusetts’ recreational marijuana shops, scheduled for May 25. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) criticized the cannabis banking provisions in the latest stimulus bill, while state Attorneys General wrote a letter
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: May 22, 2020