With the passage of the state budget and lawmakers going on recess until fall, the status of laws and policies around Ohio’s legal cannabis programs at mid-year 2025 remains in a state of flux. In at ...

Marlo Richardson is proof that Los Angeles’s cannabis equity program isn’t void of success stories. She’s one of the few social equity licensees to own and operate a vertically integrated cannabis ...

Ohio voters made their priorities clear when they legalized marijuana: they want a well-regulated industry that includes social equity provisions to ensure fair and broad participation. Now lawmakers ...

DENVER (AP) — Terrence Hewing was working for a package delivery company in 2007 when police approached his cargo van in suburban Denver. He was early for a pickup, and someone out for a walk called ...

On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon launched the War on Drugs, a policy initiative that has destroyed and continues to destroy millions of lives. Polling from the ACLU shows that 65 percent of ...

Thanks to The Plain Dealer for calling out lawmakers’ recent efforts to undercut the will of Ohio voters by altering Ohio’s existing marijuana laws (“Don’t take marijuana revenue from cities, towns ...

Connecticut’s Social Equity Council, the body charged with ensuring that revenues from legal cannabis sales benefit marginalized communities, has announced the relaunch of its community reinvestment ...

SOUTH LOS ANGELES – Wally Knot is a South Central native, currently in training to become a cannabis dispensary owner. The preparation is being provided by 4th MVMT, a social equity program ...

Supervisors will be asked to consider three options, described as “decision points,” for the Socially Equitable Cannabis ...

Santa Monica is moving forward with a comprehensive cannabis ordinance that would allow retail marijuana sales throughout the city’s commercial districts while establishing a social equity program to ...

Wednesday to advance a series of updates to a proposed cannabis program in unincorporated areas, including rules related to ...