Australian Senate rejects legalization; State marijuana officials’ Thanksgiving messages; Study: CBG’s medical uses; FL medical cannabis licenses Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are...

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) announced this month that it’s creating a new working group made up of “people with lived or living experience with drug use,” meant to advise on ways to “enhance and increase meaningful engagement” with current or former substance users in government-fund...

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A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) judge has denied a motion to remove the agency from its role in an upcoming marijuana rescheduling hearing—though he sharply criticized responses from DEA and a prohibitionist group over an allegation that they unlawfully communicated during the cannabis rulem...

Multiple states, as well as federal officials in the U.S. and Canada, are issuing reminders about their marijuana laws ahead of Thanksgiving, with some urging adults to consume responsibly if they plan to partake the holiday—and others warning people to avoid traveling across the border with cannabi...

Trump’s CDC director: Medical marijuana is “lunacy”; Lawmakers push Biden for cannabis action; Court hears case on marijuana consumer gun ban Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are sha...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued an advisory on Tuesday to notify the public about an initial hearing on the Biden administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal that’s scheduled for next week. The preliminary hearing on Monday, December 2 “will serve as a procedural day to address...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “rejected” a request from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to provide witnesses for an upcoming hearing on the Biden administration’s marijuana rescheduling proposal, the drug agency says. In a prehearing statement submitted to DEA Admi...

Trump FDA pick: Marijuana a “gateway drug”; Will DOGE cut the drug war?; Draft cannabis executive order for Biden; NY sales near $1 billion Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shapi...

A coalition of 14 Democratic congressional lawmakers is urging President Joe Biden to significantly expand his marijuana pardons and issue updated guidance to formally deprioritize federal cannabis prosecutions before his administration comes to an end. In a letter sent to Biden and Vice President K...

Democratic congressional lawmakers are promoting a drug policy reform group’s call for President Joe Biden or future administrations to issue an executive order to ensure equity in federal marijuana laws and more broadly shift the country away from the drug war. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), co-chair of ...

As courts around the country grapple with challenges to the government’s ban on marijuana users owning firearms, judges on a federal appeals panel are considering the Justice Department’s move to overturn a district court ruling last year that deemed the gun ban unconstitutional. A panel of judges o...

The next head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) could be a vociferous opponent of marijuana reform if the former congressman that President-elect Donald Trump selected for the job is ultimately confirmed. Trump tapped former Rep. Dave Weldon (R-FL) to lead CDC. While the agency...

The cannabis company provided an update on the corporate transactions.

A hearing has been scheduled by the Planning Board on Dec. 3.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a medical marijuana skeptic, promoting claims that cannabis use is linked to cardiovascular issues and mental health problems for youth. He has also suggested that marijuana is a gateway drug. Marty Makary, a surgeo...

A non-governmental advisory body that President-elect Donald Trump is putting together will have two familiar names helming the ship: Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. And while both are proponents of marijuana and psychedelics reform, giving hope to some reformers that the new entity will recommend sc...