The Fight Over Who Gets to Sell Weed
A recent report by Radio IQ suggests Virginia lawmakers are once again inching toward a legal recreational marijuana market, this time through the state budget process. Following Governor Abigail Spanberger’s veto, Senate Democrats have threatened to fold retail cannabis legislation into the state budget itself, raising the stakes ahead of next month’s budget negotiations. At […]
Virginia Governor Touts ‘Productive’ Negotiations On Bill To Legalize Marijuana Sales This Month
Virginia’s governor says she is having “really productive” and “incredible” conversations with lawmakers about crafting a compromise approach to legalizing recreational marijuana sales that could pass as part of budget legislation this month. “I don’t want to get ahead of the process,” Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) said on Monday when asked about the fact that […]
Federal Marijuana Trafficking Prosecutions Plummet After Legalization
The annual number of defendants federally prosecuted for marijuana trafficking violations has fallen 95 percent since 2012 and now stands at a historic low, according to data provided by the United States Sentencing Commission. Federal law enforcement officials in 2025 charged fewer than 400 people with marijuana trafficking, the lowest total ever. Overall, only two […]
California Bill To Legalize Marijuana Dispensary Drive-Thru Windows Advances In Senate After Clearing Full Assembly
A California Senate committee has approved and Assembly-passed bill that would allow marijuana retailers to offer drive-thru windows to serve customers. The measure, which cleared the Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee in a 7-3 vote on Monday, says that licensed cannabis retailers and microbusinesses with storefronts could sell marijuana products “to a customer in […]
Proposed Illinois law would close unlicensed intoxicating hemp shops
After federal law legalized hemp in 2018, Samuel Wilson co-founded Prohibition THCafe, which sells hemp-derived THC-infused edibles and beverages on the Near South Side. For the informal 420 cannabis holiday on April 20, the cafe partnered with Harold’s Chicken to sell infused wings, with customers lining up down the block. But Wilson’s cafe may be […]
Conservatives Miss The Point On Marijuana
By Laurence M. Vance via Mises Wire | June 04, 2026 Medical marijuana is legal in 40 states and Puerto Rico. Recreational marijuana is legal in 24 states. Both are legal in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. territories of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Many conservatives are very upset about this. Naomi […]
Congress Hemp Crackdown Could Eliminate CBD Sleep Aids, THC Drinks And THCA Products Across Michigan And Ohio
ANN ARBOR — Congress is moving closer to approving restrictions that could reshape a hemp-derived cannabinoid market worth billions of dollars annually and potentially remove thousands of products from store shelves across Michigan, Ohio and the rest of the United States. The proposed crackdown would not only affect popular products such as THCA flower, Delta-8 […]
Idaho Lawmakers Approve Ballot Language For Measure To Block Voters From Legalizing Marijuana
Idaho lawmakers have approved ballot language for a proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent voters from ever being able to decide to legalize marijuana via an initiative. The Legislative Council, a bicameral group of lawmakers, voted on Thursday to sign off on a statement of meaning and purpose for the measure, as well as arguments […]
Federal Marijuana Prosecutions Hit Another Record Low In 2025 As State Legalization Expands, Government Report Shows
Federal marijuana trafficking cases fell to another record-low in 2025, with a new report from the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) revealing a continued trend amid the expanding state-level reform movement that has given consumers more places to buy legal cannabis. A recently published USSC fact sheet on drug prosecution trends shows just 383 federal cannabis […]
High-potency cannabis fuels state debates over psychosis and addiction risks • Stateline
When her son was a teenager, Connecticut mom Amy Wadsworth said, he was the type of kid parents rarely worry about. He played sports, cared about his health and stayed away from drugs. In 2018, when he left West Hartford to start his freshman year at American University in Washington, D.C., she expected his biggest […]
Reclassifying medical marijuana is long overdue, but it’s not enough • Indiana Capital Chronicle
The Trump administration’s decision to reclassify state-authorized medical cannabis products and recognize state-licensed medical cannabis providers is a historic first step toward bringing federal drug policy into the 21st century. For over 50 years, the federal government had clung firmly to its “Flat Earth” position that marijuana lacks any legitimate medical utility and belongs in […]
Legal pot’s promise went up in smoke as the black market keeps growing
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The marijuana legalization movement sold Americans a simple promise: legalize cannabis, regulate it, tax it, and the black market would disappear. That promise has failed spectacularly. Today, illegal marijuana dealers remain active across California and throughout the nation. Meanwhile, the “legal” marijuana industry — the very industry […]