New Jersey Cannabis

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is advising marijuana companies that they still cannot take federal tax deductions for business expenses that afforded to other traditional industries unless the administration finalizes a rule to reschedule cannabis. In a press release on Friday, IRS clarified tha...

The Biden campaign is stepping up its push to draw a contrast between the president’s marijuana policies at those of former President Donald Trump, stressing that cannabis is “not as dangerous as we once believed” on a new campaign page and buying ads promoting his clemency actions. As the November ...

Legislators pushing a bipartisan bill to legalize recreational marijuana warn that, without action, neighboring states will supply the drug — and carry away the tax revenue.

Bipartisan congressional lawmakers have reintroduced a bill to set a federal marijuana research agenda and create a designation of “Centers of Excellence in Cannabis Research” for universities to carry out cannabis studies with federal grant money. The legislation filed by Reps. Scott Peters (D-CA) ...

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A recent study reveals unexpected effects of prenatal cannabis exposure on early language development in infants.

Amid growing interest in the therapeutic value of psychedelics and efforts by some state and local jurisdictions to reform laws around the drugs, a new report from the RAND Corporation says that “now is the time” for federal policymakers to decide how to regulate psilocybin and other substances. The...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says that moving cannabis to Schedule III of the federal Controlled Substances Act wouldn’t affect drug testing policies for commercial truckers, noting that the Department of Transportation (DOT) specifically lists marijuana as substance to screen for. “...

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has voted to remove marijuana from its banned substances list for Division I players, effective immediately. About five months after NCAA’s Division I Council proposed the rule change, the body adopted the policy on Tuesday, emphasizing that cannab...

Dozens of United Nations (UN) human rights experts are championing a less-punitive approach to global drug policies, urging member nations to focus less on punishment and criminalization and more on harm reduction and public health while specifically calling for “decriminalisation of drug use and re...

A Delaware Senate committee has advanced a House-passed bill that would let existing medical marijuana businesses in the state begin selling cannabis to adults, a move designed to allow recreational sales to begin months earlier than planned. Critics, however, say the legislation would give an unfai...

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As Election Day approaches, drug policy has again emerged as a key campaign issue for incumbent President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump—with each candidate’s policy positions around marijuana coming back into focus. Biden’s campaign is hoping to leverage the popularity of cannabis refo...

The Delaware Senate has approved a House-passed bill that would enact state-level protections for banks that provide services to licensed marijuana businesses—sending it to the governor’s desk. The legislation, filed by Rep. Ed Osienski (D) and Sen. Trey Paradee (D), cleared the House in March and t...

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A new United Nations (UN) report on worldwide drug trends acknowledges that marijuana legalization in the U.S. and Canada may have helped to shrink the size of illicit markets, while at the same time driving significant drops in the number of people arrested for cannabis offenses. It also notes the ...

The bill is largely similar to a bipartisan Senate bill that has been stalled since its introduction almost a year ago.

Here's where the U.S. is on marijuana support and legalization, according to a January 2024 Pew Research Center survey.

A GOP-controlled congressional committee has unveiled a key spending bill that contains a provision to block marijuana rescheduling, while also amending a longstanding rider protecting medical cannabis states from federal interference by adding new language to authorize enhanced penalties for sales ...

Neal Gerber Eisenberg attorneys examine tax and banking impact of DEA proposed rulemaking on rescheduling marijuana and momentum for more legal reforms.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded $745,000 to a hemp association to support efforts to promote the industry internationally in emerging markets across the world. The National Industrial Hemp Council of America (NIHC) announced on Friday that it secured the funding under USDA’s Re...

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A powerful House committee has rejected multiple marijuana-related amendments to a series of spending bills, including proposals to ban certain federal agencies from testing job applicants for cannabis and prevent border patrol agents from seizing marijuana from state-licensed businesses. The House ...

Opponents of federal marijuana reform—and some legalization supporters—are requesting that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hold public hearings on the government’s planned move to reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act. Prohibitionists, law en...

More than one-third of Delaware licenses will go to people who have marijuana convictions or grew up in a “disproportionately impacted area.”

A United Nations expert on the right to health is urging member nations to end the war on drugs and instead enact harm-reduction policies such as decriminalization, supervised consumption sites, drug checking and widespread availability of overdose reversal drugs like naloxone—while also moving towa...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are signaling that a bill to legalize marijuana could advance imminently—with few remaining differences between House and Senate proposals, an added sense of urgency as more neighboring state markets come online and bipartisan agreement about the need to avoid a state-run regu...

According to industry operators, MJ Freeway does not allow two-way API with some software programs that track marijuana inventory and sales.

The country’s leading trucking trade group is warning that rescheduling marijuana could lead to “significant negative consequences” for both the industry and other motorists on the road. But many individual truck drivers disagree, with some having filed comments with federal officials in support of ...

The report shows that the first year of legalization could net up to $2.8 billion in sales and create up to 45,000 new jobs.

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A federal court has dismissed a case challenging the constitutionality of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) process for adjudicating scheduling actions as the agency seeks to ban two psychedelic compounds. In an order of dismissal that was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western D...