CANNABIS CULTURE – There are a lot of questions, but not a lot of answers on how social equity applicants in New York State will get funding for their adult-use businesses.
CANNABIS CULTURE – House Bill 1535, which expanded access for medical cannabis patients via the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP) passed in both the House and Senate last week. Governor Greg Abbot has yet to sign the bill, but most cannabis advocates agree he will sign “any bill that comes across his desk.”
On Monday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed off on the state’s medical cannabis bill, SB 46, making Alabama the 36th state to legalize medical cannabis.
CANNABIS CULTURE -While New Yorkers wait for the government to set up the infrastructure, the bill allows adults 21 years or older to smoke cannabis anywhere that tobacco is allowed. The question now is, who will legalization leave behind?
CANNABIS CULTURE – Cannabis-lobbying across the US has achieved that rare thing – uniting big banks, big tobacco, unionists, and Black Lives Matter activists – for now.
When California voters legalized recreational marijuana with the passage of Proposition 64 in 2016, the move caught the attention of big-money investors