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 start off with a look at a ballot measure in South Dakota. Then we see that Georgia voters favor legalization. We move on to an update on the Delaware situation. And we note that New Hampshire’s governor could…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: June 3, 2022
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
State legalization bills are the topic of the week. We return to South Dakota to see how a legalization bill is progressing (or not). Maryland also has a legalization bill moving through its legislature. Virginia’s bill on adult-use sales seems to…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: March 4, 2022
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
We’ve got lots of state news this week – South Dakota, Alabama, and Kentucky all took action on adult-use marijuana. On the federal level, the U.S. Supreme Court asked the Justice Department to weigh in on reimbursements for medical cannabis. Meanwhile,…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: February 25, 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.
The New Hampshire House passed an adult-use legalization bill. Several South Dakota legislators introduced adult-use legalization measures. Medical marijuana is still on the table in Mississippi. Cannabis advocate Rep. Earl Perlmutter (D-CO) announced his retirement. And finally, in Quebec, if you…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: January 14, 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 wished for “better things” in 2021. Is that what we got? 2020 was such a low bar, it’s hard to see how any year couldn’t clear…
Continue Reading The Year in Weed: 2021 Edition
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Malta is legalizing adult-use cannabis. South Dakota voters are unhappy with the governor’s actions on marijuana. Montana writes rules for its cannabis industry. Lawmakers in Rhode Island work on legalization. A hemp research farm was destroyed in the recent tornados. And…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: December 17, 2021
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
This week brought the long-awaited South Dakota Supreme Court decision on their adult-use ballot initiative, and, spoiler alert: it wasn’t what cannabis advocates had hoped. Yet another industry comes out in favor of marijuana banking. Germany may legalize cannabis. Uber Eats…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: December 3, 2021
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
This week, we have a check in on Mississippi, Arkansas and South Dakota, to see how the move to legalize is progressing (or not) in those states. We also link to two run-downs of election results – marijuana appeared on the…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: November 5, 2021
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Could DC be allowed to open a legal cannabis market? The feds look at marijuana research. We have an update on South Dakota and Mississippi. And finally, the DEA had some visitors recently.
DC’s legal cannabis journey has…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: October 22, 2021
