A former commercial truck driver who lost his job after a positive drug test can try again to hold three companies liable for marketing their pain product as THC-free when it wasn’t, the Second Circuit said Monday.
Marijuana producers are claiming higher THC levels than their products actually contain in some cases, adding to concerns about how to regulate the psychoactive ingredient.
A proposal to legalize recreational marijuana in Ohio has enough valid signatures to go in front of voters in November, the state’s top elections official said Wednesday.
As the US government gathers data as part of a plan to review marijuana’s legal status by the end of 2023, officials will hear success stories from some US states. But behind local politicians’ boasts on the benefits of legalization—which often single out its tax revenue— growing data is charting the costs that states and society also bear. Some of the longest-running legalization programs in the US are also grappling with unintended consequences.
Ohio’s status as America’s heartland — and its heavy marijuana users — are giving the cannabis industry hope as a potential vote on legalization approaches this fall.
Ohio looks likely to vote on the legalization of recreational marijuana in November, in a move that could improve the legislative and financial prospects for the cannabis industry overall.
The still developing marijuana industry that’s emerged on the heels of increased legalization is pushing more colleges and universities to offer academic programs to prepare students for various career opportunities in one of the country’s fastest growing job markets.
A man sentenced to three months in prison for violating his supervised release by possessing marijuana failed to convince the Second Circuit Tuesday that the act wasn’t a crime.
New York’s cannabis dispensary licensing process has been temporarily halted in response to a lawsuit from a group of veterans who say the state overstepped its constitutional authority by creating a new type of dispensary license and limiting eligibility.
Farmers have planted the first legal cannabis crop in Morocco, long a top producer of black-market hashish. For now, it’s shaping up to be a modest entry into the above-board market, but hopes are high the nation will one day become a key supplier to the steadily opening European market.
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