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Policy Signal: Major Banking Group Pushes Congress To Pass Bill Easing Marijuana Businesses’ Access To Financial Services
Policy watch: A major banking organization is calling on Congress to pass legislation to ease marijuana businesses’ access to financial services. The Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Bankin...
Policy Signal: Workers At More Missouri Marijuana Businesses Win Union Fights Following Federal Ruling
Policy watch: “They basically thought it was impossible when all these companies were fighting, and now the workers are winning.” By Rebecca Rivas, Missouri Independent Missouri cannabis work...
Policy Signal: AMA Says Marijuana Has Benefits And Risks For Older Adults, While Supporting A Ban On Flavored Cannabis Vapes
Policy watch: The American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted two new marijuana-related resolutions—one that advocates for a ban on flavored cannabis vaping products and another that recog...
Culture Signal: Nebraska Gov. and AG Approve Medical Cannabis Regulations
Culture signal: Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) and state Attorney General Mike Hilgers have signed off on regulations for the state’s medical cannabis industry. Hilgers gave his approval in a Jun...
Culture Signal: North Carolina Senate Passes Bill to Cap THC and Set Age Restrictions for Hemp-Derived Products
Culture signal: The North Carolina Senate last week passed legislation that would cap THC content in hemp-derived products at 0.4 milligrams per container – in line with federal standards set t...
Policy Signal: Defense Department Would Issue Report On How Psychedelic Mushrooms Can Benefit Military Members Under New Congressional Bill
Policy watch: A bipartisan group of lawmakers have filed a new bill in Congress what would require the Department of Defense to evaluate how ongoing research on the therapeutic benefits of ps...
Policy Signal: New Hampshire Democratic Challenger Slams GOP Governor’s Veto Of Medical Marijuana Greenhouse Cultivation Bill
Policy watch: A New Hampshire Democratic gubernatorial candidate is criticizing the incumbent Republican governor for vetoing a bill to let medical cannabis companies grow marijuana in greenh...
What This Enforcement Signal Says About The Shadow Cannabis Market
Enforcement signal: Drugs crackdown reiterates there is no place for drugs in the South West Your voice in policing
Policy Signal: Inside DEA’s cannabis rescheduling hearing (Newsletter: July 6, 2026)
Policy watch: ID medical marijuana signatures; Trucking groups’ rescheduling warning; Cayman Islands cannabis report; TN legalization push; NC hemp restrictions Subscribe to receive Marijuana...
Culture Signal: DEA Argues in Favor of Moving Cannabis to Schedule III
Culture signal: The DEA’s long-awaited administrative hearing on moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III opened this week with the agency stating plainly that it supports the move, Cann...
Culture Signal: New Study Investigates Mental Health Risks of Teen Cannabis Use
Culture signal: A new study in JAMA Health Forum tracking over 463,000 adolescents from ages 13 to 17 through age 26 found that teens who reported cannabis use in the prior year faced significa...
What This Enforcement Signal Says About The Shadow Cannabis Market
Enforcement signal: Man arrested and suspected drugs seized in joint operation at shop in Whitmore Reans West Midlands Police
Culture Signal: Ohio Man Indicted Over Alleged Cannabis Candy Fraud Scheme
Culture signal: A Cuyahoga County, Ohio grand jury last week indicted Garett Fortune, 54, on 20 felony counts related to securities fraud in an alleged cannabis candy company scam. The grand ju...
Culture Signal: New York Launches Program to Educate Doctors About Cannabis
Culture signal: The New York Office if Cannabis Management (OCM) last week launched its Center of Excellence for Cannabis Care and Health Equity. The center was first announced in Gov. Kathy Ho...
What This Enforcement Signal Says About The Shadow Cannabis Market
Enforcement signal: Force's largest ever cannabis seizure as £5m drugs farm dismantled Nottinghamshire Police
What This Enforcement Signal Says About The Shadow Cannabis Market
Enforcement signal: 'XL bully-type' dogs and drugs seized in raid BBC
What This Enforcement Signal Says About The Shadow Cannabis Market
Enforcement signal: Border Force secures its largest ever cannabis seizure GOV.UK