Gubernatorial candidates weigh cannabis reform in Kansas
What do Ethan Corson, Cindy Holscher and Curt Skoog say about medical and recreational marijuana? Getty Images file photo Editor’s Note: The Kansas City Star Editorial Board has been meeting with candidates in this year’s primary on Aug. 4. Most recently, we met in person with the three Democratic candidates vying for Kansas governor: Kansas […]
Issue Spotlight: What Arkansas gubernatorial candidates say about legalizing recreational marijuana
Medical marijuana has generated more than $1 billion in Arkansas since voters legalized it in 2016. After the state opened its first dispensary in 2019, thousands of Arkansans joined the program and spent a record $291.1 million on medical marijuana in 2025, according to the state’s Department of Finance and Administration. Court ruling casts uncertainty […]
GOP Senator Says Keeping Hemp THC Products Legal Is An Issue That Can Unite Lawmakers At A ‘Hyperpartisan’ Time
A Republican senator is previewing forthcoming bipartisan legislation to reverse the scheduled federal recriminalization of hemp THC products this year and replace it with a new regulatory system that includes age limits and taxes. Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) said the issue is “important to me personally” as a wounded veteran “who has a lot of […]
Military Warns That Trump’s Marijuana Rescheduling Move Doesn’t Allow Use By Service Members
The Department of War (DOW) has issued a memo to senior Pentagon leadership making clear that marijuana use by military service members and civilian employees of the department remains prohibited, even as the Trump administration is moving to federally reschedule cannabis. DOW “maintains a drug-free workplace to protect national security, public safety, and operational readiness,” […]
Congress’s options for addressing cannabis user gun ban (Newsletter: July 15, 2026)
HHS/VA psychedelics partnership; ID medical marijuana push fails; CA data: Local bans boost illicit market; Study: Cannabis-infused tea & happiness 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 shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Hold on, […]
Medical cannabis initiative fails to qualify for Idaho’s general election ballot • Idaho Capital Sun
A proposed ballot initiative seeking to legalize medical cannabis in Idaho failed to meet the legal signature-gathering requirements set out in state law and will not appear on Idaho’s general election ballot in November, the Idaho Secretary of State’s Office announced Tuesday. A group called the Natural Medicine Alliance of Idaho had hoped to legalize […]
Major ‘shortfalls’ thwart Idaho medical cannabis legalization push
Idaho will remain one of the handful of states without any form of legal cannabis access after a medical marijuana legalization campaign failed to qualify for the November ballot amid what state elections officials called major “shortfalls.” Backers of a proposed Idaho Medical Cannabis Act claimed to have collected more than 100,000 signatures from registered […]
At DEA Hearing in Virginia, Sheriff Honsal Will Testify Against Cannabis Rescheduling on Behalf of Nebraska, Idaho and Indiana | Lost Coast Outpost
Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal is in Arlington, Va., this week to testify in a formal DEA hearing about whether or not cannabis should be reclassified from Schedule I to the less-restrictive Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act. He’s scheduled to testify today as a key expert witness for three states that oppose the […]
NY issues marijuana warning guide as ER visits skyrocket
The state has issued a new guide warning about the negatives of smoking or ingesting marijuana as an alarming study discovered ER visits are skyrocketing — especially among little kids. The guide, “Talking With Young People About Weed,” notes that the brain develops until age 25 and that frequent pot users — and accidental young […]
Dog has ‘bad trip’ after apparently ingesting cannabis, needing mountain rescue
LONDON — Christina Bluhme was high on the flanks of Britain’s tallest mountain with her dogs, and one of the hounds was a lot higher — and not in a good way. Tokyo, a 5-year-old black Labrador retriever, had apparently ingested cannabis along the trail and had to be rescued after she began to sway […]
Will Idaho voters get a say on legalizing medical cannabis?
Idaho voters will not get to choose this year if they want to make medical cannabis legal across the state. The Secretary of State’s Office said Tuesday that an initiative that would have put the question before voters did not garner enough signatures to make it on the November ballot. To make the ballot, initiatives […]
Pennsylvania adult-use marijuana legalization stalls out
Another year, another demand from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to lawmakers to legalize adult-use cannabis – and all leading to another stalemate, with no progress toward opening the next biggest adult-use market in the U.S. Despite popular support, adult-use marijuana legalization is absent from the budget deal Shapiro signed into law on Sunday, as Philly […]