Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the White Earth Nation signed a compact with the state of Minnesota allowing off-reservation cannabis sales. A ban on hemp containing THC passed the Texas Legislature. There’s a new adult-use marijuana bill in Pennsylvania. And finally, someone picked a pound of weed out of a discount store in Iowa.Continue Reading The Week in Weed: May 30, 2025

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, legislation that would ban intoxicating hemp is moving through the Texas legislature. We applaud the state of Tennessee for the name they’ve given a legalization bill. We report on the least shocking cannabis news of 2025. And finally, we see a well-known company break into the edibles market.Continue Reading The Week in Weed: March 28, 2025

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we see Texas’ attorney general opposing local decriminalization laws. We note the Pennsylvania governor’s frustration over seeing cannabis business travel to neighboring states. We have a list of New York lawsuits, because at this point, you need a scorecard. And finally, you can enjoy tea with a little something extra in the nation’s Capital. Continue Reading The Week in Weed: February 9, 2024

Welcome back to the Weed in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

This week, we learn that Arkansas voters will have their votes counted in their referendum on cannabis. Oklahoma’s governor favors federal legalization, although not a state measure. Cannabis lounges open in Nevada. Georgia issues medical marijuana licenses. And finally, let’s all get aboard the CannaBus.Continue Reading The Week in Weed: September 30, 2022

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

Two bipartisan cannabis research bills start their legislative journey.  The Supreme Court refuses to hear a 280E case.  Attorney General Garland reiterates his disinterest in prosecuting marijuana users abiding by state law.  The Texas legislature moves on cannabis decriminalization.  And finally,
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: May 7, 2021

Two years ago, we detailed here legislative and other efforts in Texas to expand legal uses of cannabis.  The bill related to expanding Texas’ compassionate use registry for medical marijuana (still one of the narrowest in the nation) was successful; broader efforts at decriminalization or legalization were not.

2021 brings another legislative session (In Texas, the state legislature only meets in odd-numbered years and for a period of less than 5 months), and further prospects for opening up opportunities for the use of cannabis in the 2nd largest state in the country.

Over a dozen bills were “pre-filed” before the session began.

Here are some of the featured bills:Continue Reading Marijuana Legislation Progresses in…Texas?