Two more congressional lawmakers are joining the ranks of GOP members who are challenging what they say is the “unusual” process that led the Biden administration to propose rescheduling marijuana, expressing concern about how the review was carried out and demanding answers. In a letter sent to Att...

Marijuana helps people with substance misuse disorders stay off opioids or reduce their use, maintain treatment and manage withdrawal symptoms, a new federally funded study finds. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) set out to investigate the relationship between cannabis cons...

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As part of a government effort to encourage the use of more environmentally friendly building materials, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a nearly $6.2 million grant to a nonprofit that works with hempcrete, a concrete-like material that’s made with hemp. The Nashville-base...

A GOP congressman who represents California is condemning the Biden administration’s push to reschedule marijuana, as well as legislative efforts to enact bipartisan cannabis banking reform, because he says the policy changes would “prop up this immoral industry” and give a “green light to the evil ...

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After years of navigating state and local officials, the county's fifth retail marijuana shop will open Sunday. Here's a look inside.

A new study suggests that access to medical marijuana may increase the amount of parenting that people engage in by improving patients’ health. Medical marijuana legalization (MML) “reduces inactive time and increases sleep, consistent with medical marijuana’s health benefits” the report, published ...

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Just one in four marijuana businesses are profitable, according to a new survey. Yet optimism about the future of their enterprises has increased on the heels of the Biden administration’s push to reschedule marijuana. The new survey data from Whitney Economics, which was partly detailed in a public...

A new policy paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP) calls for the decriminalization of marijuana possession as well as increased resources to treat problematic use. It also promotes taking an evidence-based approach to medical education around cannabis and its health effects. In the rep...

With Vice President Kamala Harris now positioned to win the Democratic nomination following President Joe Biden’s decision not to run for reelection, new questions have emerged about who she’ll pick as a running mate. And for advocates, the current shortlist offers reason to be optimistic about the ...

A national nonprofit drug policy reform group is mounting a challenge to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) proposal to ban two psychedelic substances. Experts say the new federal restriction would be detrimental to ongoing research initiatives. In a prehearing statement filed with DEA’s ad...

Rescheduling comment period closes; House GOP blocks marijuana amendments; DeSantis’s false legalization claim; Dallas cannabis decrim 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 th...

More than 3 in 4 New York State medical marijuana patients say cannabis has allowed them to reduce their intake of prescription drugs, according to a new report from the state’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM). That includes 2 in 3 (66 percent) who report that marijuana has specifically “reduced...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is warning that marijuana rescheduling could create a “blind spot” with respect to drug testing of federally regulated workers in safety-sensitive positions—despite assurances last month from U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg that the cannab...

During the initial round of the NJEDA program, 48 businesses received $250,000 grants to assist with early-stage expenses, as well as technical training.

Two separate analyses of tens of thousands of public comments filed about the federal government’s plan to move marijuana to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) indicate that the bulk of submissions on the proposal came in support of cannabis reform. In fact, most commenters said mar...