LATEST ALERTS
US – Hawaii: House Bill 1359 has been passed by the Senate and now heads to the governor’s desk. The bill would amend the
US - Ohio: State lawmakers failed to act on a proposal to legalise recreational cannabis before a statutory deadline, requiring advocates to resume signature-gathering.
US – Maryland: House Bill 556 and Senate Bill 516 have both been signed into law by governor Wes Moore, creating a legal framework and tax structure
US - Hawaii: House Bill 1082, on medical cannabis regulation, has been passed by the State Legislature and now heads to the governor’s desk. It would
Costa Rica: President Rodrigo Chaves has chosen the bill to legalise sale and consumption of recreational cannabis to be heard in extraordinary sessions of the Legislative Assembly.
Germany: The Ministry of Health has published a technical report on the effects of the legalisation of recreational cannabis in Canada, the US and Uruguay, evaluating
US - Oklahoma: House Bill 2095 has been signed into law by governor Kevin Stitt, making changes to medical cannabis licensing, the enforcement of regulations,
US - Texas: House Bill 2818 has passed the House and now heads to the Senate. It would generally revise hemp production provisions by updating
US - Florida: Senate Bill 1676 has been passed by the House and now heads to the governor’s desk. Among other things, it would prohibit
Luxembourg: The Health and Justice ministries have published a proposal for the introduction of a recreational cannabis pilot programme. However, ministers have said the bill
US - Colorado: House Bill 23-1279 has passed the Senate and now heads to the governor’s desk. It would allow licensed cannabis retailers to accept
US - Minnesota: Senate File 73 – the Senate version of House File 100 – has been passed by the Senate. Both bills would legalise cannabis
US - Minnesota: The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has extended the application period for licences to grow and process hemp. Since online applications have
US - Florida: Senate Bill 1676 has been passed by the Senate and now heads to the House. Among other things, it would prohibit
US - Florida: House Bill 1387 has been passed by the House and now heads to the Senate. It would impose stronger child protection
Germany: Health minister Karl Lauterbach has sent a first draft of a bill to legalise recreational cannabis to other ministries for pre-publication review, press reports.
Denmark: The Ministry of Health is planning to ban hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), press reports. Health minister Sofie Løhde told a news channel: “When new substances appear on the
US - Federal: US representatives Nydia Velázquez (Democrat, New York) and Warren Davidson (Republican, Ohio) have reintroduced the Clarifying Law Around Insurance of Marijuana (Claim Act).
US - Federal: A bipartisan group of senators and representatives have reintroduced the Secure and Fair Enforcement (Safe) Banking Act of 2023, aimed to allow for
US - Florida: House Bill (HB) 387 has been passed by the House and now heads to the Senate. HB 387 would require a physical
France: Deputy Victor Habert-Dassault, from the Republicans, presented a parliamentary question to the minister of health asking whether the government is considering banning
US – Tennessee: Senate Bill 378 has been passed by the House and now heads to the governor’s desk. It would strengthen regulation on the
US - Texas: House Bill 218 has been passed by the House and now heads to the Senate. It would reduce criminal penalties for the
US - Georgia: Medical cannabis patients who have been registered since 2015 will soon be able to receive low-THC medical cannabis oil, since
US - Oklahoma: Senate Bill 813 has passed the House and now heads to the governor’s desk. It would allow the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority
Italy: The Military Pharmaceutical Chemical Institute has temporarily suspended production of medical cannabis due to the poor state of the facilities and the lack
Morocco: The Customs and Excise Administration has issued a circular on the import and export of cannabis seeds. Imported seeds must be labelled
Greece: The government has issued a Ministerial Decision updating the requirements to apply for marketing authorisation for finished cannabis-containing medicinal products.
UK: CBD company Legacy 369 must stop using ads with medicinal claims for unlicensed CBD products, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled today. An
US - Minnesota: House File 100 has been passed by the House and now heads to the Senate. It would make it legal for
US - Oklahoma: House Bill 2095 has been passed by the Senate and now heads to the governor’s desk. It would impose changes to medical
Czech Republic: The Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed to CannIntelligence that a forthcoming ban on the sale of CBD and other cannabinoids will apply
Belgium: The Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and the Environment has updated its positive list of notified herbal products for smoking, which includes
Lithuania: The Seimas (parliament) is to reconsider decriminalising possession of small quantities of cannabis. Members yesterday accepted the Ethics and Procedures Committee’s view
UK: During a parliamentary debate on medical cannabis, Will Quince, minister for health and secondary care, said he understood the government intended to respond to the
US – North Dakota: Senate Bill 2096 has been signed into law by governor Doug Burgum. It revises the definition of hemp products to
Lithuania: A bid to decriminalise possession of small quantities of cannabis was removed from the parliamentary agenda today, with procedural issues to be
Germany: The Ministry of Health has notified through the European Commission’s TRIS database a bill to add the synthetic cannabinoid ADB-BUTINACA to the New Psychoactive Substances
US - Delaware: Democratic governor John Carney has a stated that he will allow House Bill (HB) 1 and HB 2, collectively known
Bulgaria: The Ministry of Interior has released the results of a police operation that seized 5,670 products containing hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) "with extremely vague documentation".
US - Washington: Senate Bill (SB) 5367 has been passed by the House and now heads to the governor's desk. The bill would amend definitions of
US - Montana: Senate Bill (SB) 67 has been signed by governor Greg Gianforte and enacted into law. The bill lists several THC isomers, including
Portugal: The Liberal Initiative party, an opposition party with eight seats in Parliament, has introduced a bill to legalise recreational cannabis. The bill
Finland: The citizens’ initiative “Cannabis to be legal, regulated and taxed”, published in October 2022, has achieved the necessary 50,000 declarations of support.
UK: Conservative MP David Mundell told the Scottish Herald newspaper that the cannabis industry has huge economic potential but faces a lot of regulatory
US - federal: Democrat senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii and Congressional Cannabis Caucus co-chairs representatives Barbara Lee (Democrat) and David Joyce (Republican) have reintroduced the Veterans Medical
New Zealand: Medleaf High THC GG#4, a dried cannabis flower used to make tea, has been verified by the Medicinal Cannabis Agency as meeting
Bulgaria: The National Drugs Council has agreed to add hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) to Schedule 1 of the Regulation on the Classification of Plants and Substances as Narcotics as an
Argentina: The Ministry of Health issued a resolution yesterday extending from one year to three the validity of home growers’, patients’ and prescribing doctors’
