LATEST ALERTS
US - Delaware: House Bill 1 has passed the House and now moves to the Senate. It would remove all penalties for possession, use, sharing
US – South Dakota: House Bill 1209 is with the governor after being passed by the Senate. It would require containers holding in-process hemp during
US - Hawaii: House Bill 70, which has passed the House and now moves to the Senate, would prohibit the sale or holding, offering, and
US - Hawaii: Senate Bill 669 has passed the Senate and now moves to the House. It would establish a Hawaii Cannabis Regulatory Authority, allow
US - Hawaii: Senate Bill 673 has passed the Senate and now moves to the House. It would authorise specified health care facilities to allow
US – South Dakota: House Bill 1150 has been signed by the governor and enacted into law. It waives a medical cannabis patient’s fee for
US - Georgia: House Bill 196 has passed the House and now moves to the Senate. Among other measures, it would increase the number of medical
US - Oklahoma: State Question 820, a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis, has been rejected by 61.68% of Oklahoma voters. SQ 820 would have allowed
Australia: The government and opposition parties in the state of Victoria are supporting a bill introduced by the Legalise Cannabis party to allow patients prescribed with
Lithuania: The parliamentary Law and Order Committee was today returning its attention to decriminalising possession of small quantities of cannabis, media reports. Administrative
Czech Republic: National anti-drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil has told reporters that an overdue action plan on addiction will be sent to the government
US – South Dakota: House Bill 1053, which would prohibit written certification to obtain medical cannabis “to a patient who is pregnant or
US – South Dakota: Senate Bill 1 has been passed by the House in an amended version that must be reconciled with the
US - Georgia: House Bill 458 has passed the House and now moves to the Senate. Among other measures, it would establish licences
Morocco: Citizen co-op Coopérative Biocannat has announced that it has opened its laboratory for industrial, medical and paramedical uses of cannabis, reportedly becoming the
US - New York: The New York Cannabis Control Board and the Office of Cannabis Management have recently announced that they will increase the number
US - Oklahoma: State Question (SQ) 820, a ballot initiative to legalise recreational cannabis, will be voted on tomorrow, 7th March. SQ 820 would
US - Hawaii: House Bill 1359 has passed the House and now heads to the Senate. The bill would amend the state’s hemp laws in various ways,
US - Montana: Senate Bill 471 has passed the Senate and now heads to the House. The bill would make it illegal to sell or
US - Montana: House Bill 351 has passed the House, and now heads to the Senate. The bill would amend the state’s cannabis laws
Peru: The Ministry of Health has approved Resolution 004-2023 on the medicinal use of cannabis, which sets further conditions and licence requirements for
Italy: The Ministry of Defence has published the list of companies that have passed to phase 2 of the tender for the cultivation
Portugal: On Friday, 3rd March, the government published Decree 64/2023, which increased the THC cap for industrial hemp from 0.2% to 0.3%, as established
US - Arizona: Senate Bill 1466 has passed the Senate and now heads to the House. The bill would revise general provisions regarding
Washington: Senate Bill 5367 has passed the Senate and now heads to the House. The bill would amend definitions of certain terms, such
US - Washington: House Bill 1772 has passed the House and now heads to the Senate. The bill would prohibit the sale, manufacture,
Malta: The application process to establish cannabis harm-reduction associations (nonprofit organisations that will be allowed to grow cannabis and distribute it to their members)
EU: During the workshop on hemp held on 28th February by the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI), some members of the European Parliament (MEPs)
Mexico: The Mexican Cannabis Confederation for Medical Use (Concamed), a group of doctors, patients, government officials and activists who advocate for medical cannabis access,
US - North Carolina: Senate Bill 3, known as the North Carolina Compassionate Care Act, has passed the Senate and now heads to
US - West Virginia: Senate Bill 220, which would create the Hemp-derived Cannabinoid Regulation Act, has just passed the Senate and now heads
US - West Virginia: Senate Bill 546 has just passed the Senate and now heads to the House. It would add delta-8 and delta-10 THC, THCO, and “synthetic and non-naturally
US - South Dakota: House Bill 1150 has been passed by the Senate and now heads to the governor’s desk. HB 1150 would waive a medical cannabis patient’s fee
UK: The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has given notice through the Interactive Drug Analysis Profile, which provides an overview of spontaneous suspected adverse
Belgium: The Federal Public Service for Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment has updated its positive list of notified herbal products for smoking, which includes hemp
Germany: Bavaria’s health minister Klaus Holetscheck has presented a legal opinion on the federal government’s plan to legalise recreational cannabis, which he says contravenes
US - federal: Democrat representative Earl Blumenauer has started to pass around a sign-on letter demanding Biden Administration officials who are currently engaged in
Canada: Statistics Canada has for the first time published tax revenues from sales of recreational cannabis, which amounted to CAD1.55bn (USD1.14bn) from April 2021 to March
US - Wyoming: House Bill 108 has been signed by the governor and enacted into law. It will prohibit from 1st July the sale of vaping and
US - Tennessee: Senate Bill 1104, the Tennessee Medical Cannabis Act, has failed in the Senate. Had it passed it would have legalised the use
Spain: Spain is set to quadruple its production of medical cannabis this year, media reports. The Spanish Medicines and Medical Products Agency (AEMPS) forecasts that
US - South Dakota: House Bill 1209 has been passed by the Senate and now heads to the governor’s desk. It would revise provisions on industrial
US - New Jersey: Assembly Bill A3946 is headed for the governor’s desk after being passed by the Senate. It would allow cannabis businesses to
US - Virginia: Despite efforts to pass legislation that would establish recreational cannabis sales, the start of Virginia’s retail cannabis market appears to be
US - Iowa: The state Medical Cannabidiol Board has again rejected a petition from Bud and Mary, the only medical cannabis product manufacturer in
Austria: The Federal Ministry for Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection has notified the EU of a draft amendment to the Ordinance on New Psychoactive Substances in
Malta: The Authority for the Responsible Use of Cannabis is starting today to accept applications for the establishment of cannabis harm-reduction associations, nonprofit organisations that
Germany: Bavaria’s health minister Klaus Holetscheck will present a legal opinion tomorrow on the federal government’s plan to legalise recreational cannabis, which he opposes. “For medical reasons,
Lithuania: The State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) has held talks on the most common mistakes in the advertising of hemp-derived products, media
US - Virginia: After initially being passed over in the Senate, House Bill (HB) 2294 has been revived and reconciled between the House
