Articles tagged with "legalization"

An Israeli company will partner with an Australian one to help boost clinical education opportunities around medical cannabis Down Under.

After a week of sharp divisions over the future of the state’s adult-use cannabis law, it’s now up to a committee of six lawmakers to sort everything out.

Gov. Rick Scott has signed into law a bill that outlines how patients can qualify and receive medical marijuana. Critics are already planning a lawsuit.

Exactly one week after Toronto Mayor John Tory announced impending crackdowns on the city’s illegal-yet-plentiful cannabis dispensaries, Toronto police made good on the promise, executing a series of dispensary raids across the city yesterday morning.

Washington, DC, voters legalized cannabis possession and cultivation in 2014, but thanks to Congress blocking a regulated market, sales remain illegal.

Amid skepticism from advocates,
lawmakers are racing to beat a deadline so retail operations can open in time for a proposed July 2018 launch date.

For the fifth time in two years, the Vermont Senate passed a bill that would legalize adult-use cannabis only to see it fizzle in the House.

After overwhelming support, President Enrique Peña Nieto signed a decree legalizing the medicinal and therapeutic use of cannabis.

For a second day in Ottawa, Canadian finance ministers from the federal, provincial, and territorial levels are gathering to strategize a coordinated approach to cannabis taxation.

Vermont lawmakers are due back in Montpelier this week for what’s scheduled to be a two-day session to deal with vetoes issued by Gov. Phil Scott.