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California broadens nation's largest pot eradication effort

California’s four-year-old legal marijuana market is in disarray

The Independent UK

Will Missouri Legalize Cannabis? Amendment 3 Suffers Another Attack This Time By State NAACP

Cannabis legalization efforts in Missouri are under attack once again, this time by The Missouri State Conference of the NAACP.

Benzinga

New Data Shows Weed Legalization A Boon For Real Estate, New Jobs And Tax Revenue

A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank shed light on the economic impact marijuana legalization has had in recent years, reported Marijuana Moment. Policy changes on the state level have resulted in increased commercial real estate demand, as well as a surge in tax revenues while creating more jobs.

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Congress Under Pressure: Colorado Officials Push For Cannabis Banking Reform

With the end of Congress' session just around the corner, marijuana advocates, stakeholders and lawmakers continue to push for marijuana banking policy change.

Benzinga

Sen. Booker Says Cannabis Decriminalization Could Happen Soon, After Biden's 'Significant' Pardons

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he will pardon all pr

Benzinga

Canadian Sex Workers Fight for Full Decriminalization of Prostitution

Plus: Why China didn't liberalize, rescheduling marijuana could take years, and more…

Reason

Tories, if you want growth, growth, growth, legalise marijuana – and slap a hefty sin tax on it

Suella Braverman wants to make cannabis a class A drug, just as other countries are taking a liberal approach, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Jonathan Bernstein: Why Biden is trailing public opinion on marijuana policy

There’s an understandable tendency to think of presidential actions in terms of how they will affect upcoming elections. But it’s worth taking a step back to consider what President Joe Biden’s move on marijuana policy tells us about how democracy actually works.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Biden's marijuana pardons are a good step, but more is needed

For a president in his late 70s, Joe Biden has been surprisingly forward-looking in many of his policy priorities, including the climate change-combating Inflation Reduction Act and action on the student debt crisis.

Tribune News Service

$7.8M of pot seized from illegal outdoor grow site, Nevada police say

More than 8,700 pounds of marijuana worth over $7.8 million was seized at an illegal outdoor grow site in a remote wilderness area of Lincoln County, according to the Nevada State Police.

Tribune News Service

Cannabis Reg. Update: Possession Pardons In Tennessee And MA, Jobs In Alaska & UK Home Secretary Hates Weed

Marijuana Legalization In Tennessee

Benzinga

New York Gov. Hochul Scurries To Figure Out Cannabis DUI Detection As Weed Sales Loom

Before retail licenses to sell marijuana continue to be issued in the state, Gov.

Benzinga

Biden Says He's Pardoning 'All' Federal Weed Possession Offenders. He Isn't.

If you aren't a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident, you're out of luck.

Reason

Federal Bureaucrats Say We Can't Reschedule Marijuana Because of How It's Scheduled

Cannabis has long been classified as having "high potential for abuse" and "no currently accepted medical use." That makes it harder to study and, therefore, harder to reclassify.

Reason

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WEKU

Biden's pot pardon will help reverse War on Drugs harm to Black people, advocates say

Experts hailed the move as an important first step in righting the wrongs from decades of uneven drug enforcement policy.

Ballotpedia

Minnesota congressional candidate dies Oct. 5; 2nd District election will still take place on Nov. 8

Paula Overby—the Legal Marijuana Now Party candidate in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District—died on Oct. 5. Axios Twin Cities reported that Overby died “following complications related to a failing heart valve.” That day, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said that the congressional election will proceed as scheduled on Nov. 8…

Benzinga

North Carolina Governor Wants To 'End The Stigma' On Cannabis Despite GOP Opposition

Just days after President Joe Biden announced he would pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession and urged governors to do the same, North Carolina's Gov.

Benzinga

State Sen. Shevrin Jones Urges Gov. DeSantis To Follow Biden & Pardon Floridians With Simple Marijuana Convictions

Florida State Senator Shevrin Jones wrote to Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday asking him to pardon state-level cannabis possession convictions.

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Gov. Abbott Says No To Cannabis Pardons In Texas, What About His Opponent O'Rourke?

President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he will pardon all pr

Reason

Better Late Than Never on Weed, Kamala

Plus: A judge may recognize a poly romance, the Nobel Prize goes to economists "for research on banks and financial crises," and more...

Benzinga

Cannabis 'Can Cause A Permanent Drop In Intelligence' Claims Protecting South Dakota Kids Railing Against Legalization

South Dakota residents will decide in November whether or not to support adult-use cannabis legalization in a vote for or against Initiative Measure 27, which will be on the ballot. Moving closer to the elections, groups opposing marijuana legalization are lobbying hard.

WEKU

Long-time public defender hopes Governor Beshear follows the president's lead on marijuana possessio

President Biden has issued a proclamation that pardons federal convictions for simple marijuana possession offenses. He is urging state governors to do the same.Scott West is deputy public advocate with the State Department of Public Advocacy. He believes Governor Beshear should consider such action for those convicted on state possession…

Tribune News Service

With a marijuana pardon, Biden tries to light up voters he needs

The day after President Joe Biden decided to pardon marijuana smokers, the 79-year-old walked into a bookstore on the University of Pennsylvania campus with his granddaughter. One voice in the crowd outside shouted out: “Yo Joe, legalize that weed.”

Axios

The politics of Biden's marijuana pardons

Biden previously opposed legalization.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

5 takeaways from Budd and Beasley’s Senate debate in NC

U.S. Senate candidates Ted Budd and Cheri Beasley met on the debate stage for the first time Friday and discussed the former and current presidents, where they stand on policy issues and who was actually elected to the White House in 2020.

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