Canna Law Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Legal limbo hurts everyone Cannabis currently exists in a regulatory vacuum that serves no one well (prohibitionists and proponents alike). While no longer a scheduled narcotic, there’s no national framework governing cultivation, distribution, or sales or cannabis in Thailand.

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Connor & Connor PLLC

MAY 12, 2025

With the rapid expansion of the cannabis industry, entrepreneurs face a range of legal and regulatory hurdles that can make the process daunting. One of the most significant legal hurdles in the cannabis industry is dealing with land use and zoning regulations. Starting a cannabis business can be both exciting and challenging.

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Canna Care Docs

MARCH 27, 2025

The program aimed to provide safe, legal access to cannabis for patients with chronic conditions. Shift to Recreational Focus The landscape changed dramatically with the legalization of recreational marijuana in 2016. Cultivation rights : Medical patients can grow more plants at home.

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Veriheal

MAY 16, 2025

Last year, the price of an eighth of weed ranged from about $25 to $60 in s tates with a legal recreational Adult-Use market. However, in some legal states like New Jersey, the price for top-shelf flower can often go as high as $70 per eighth. Since cultivators grow cannabis domestically in the U.S.,

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

With cannabis polling so favorably nationwide, you may be wondering why only four states are voting to change the plant’s legal status. I explained in a 2021 post: Something important to understand about cannabis legalization is that only 21 states allow citizen-approved ballot initiatives.

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Connor & Connor PLLC

JULY 15, 2025

Effective October 1, 2025- AB365: Assembly Bill 365 states that the University of Nevada Reno is no longer legally obligated to continue their established program for the evaluation and research of the medical use of cannabis in the care and treatment of persons who have been diagnosed with a chronic or debilitating medical condition.

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LifeCannMD

JUNE 23, 2025

Patients come to me confused about what’s legal, what’s changing, and what their rights actually are. I shouldn’t have to tell you this, but using your legally prescribed cannabis shouldn’t put your family at risk. This bill would make that crystal clear in Florida law.

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Veriheal

MARCH 19, 2025

On July 1, 2021, medical marijuana became legal in South Dakota. However, South Dakota’s journey toward cannabis legalization has been anything but straightforward. South Dakota has had a very complicated past and present when it comes to legalizing marijuana, both medically and recreationally.

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Veriheal

MARCH 27, 2025

Allowing the state to cultivate cannabis for in-state cardholders could be a transformative move for the states agricultural businesses. Currently, the state is stringent on ways to allow patients to inhale cannabis – with most product options surrounding topical or oral forms. Iowa is also known for its strong agricultural practices.

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Illinois News Joint

MAY 30, 2025

Other itemized amendments include a raise in renewal fees for cultivation centers, stating, On or after July 1, 2026 the Cultivation Center license renewal fee shall be $200,000 to be deposited into the Cannabis Regulation Fund. For the 2027 renewal cycle the Department may set up a process to refund or prorate renewal fees.

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 12, 2025

Much of it was driven by Germanys newly formed government keeping its quasi-legalization policy intact, even if adult-use trials remain uncertain. Unfortunately, state-legal U.S. could begin exporting marijuana into legal foreign medical markets (subject to meeting GMP, GACP, and other foreign requirements of course ).

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Illinois News Joint

JUNE 8, 2025

Though the rules for packing and labeling have not changed, cultivation center, craft grower, infuser, and dispensary licensees must continue to comply with label requirements during the transition from BioTrack to Metrc. However, dispensary names are required on the units before selling, and can be added by manufacturers.

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The NM Political Report | Medical Cannabis Program

JANUARY 17, 2022

With a little more than two months before recreational-use cannabis sales are expected to start, the New Mexico Cannabis Control Division issued an emergency rule change that doubles plant limits for cultivators.

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NORML

APRIL 22, 2025

Far too often, this body engages in partisan politics rather than working toward the interests of the majority of New Hampshire voters who want to see marijuana legal in the 'Live Free of Die' state." "Despite the popularity of these issues among New Hampshire voters, the Senate continue to be an impediment to reform.

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Veriheal

JULY 2, 2025

The True Impacts of Cannabis Use Photo Credit: News on 6 According to the UN , cannabis is, by far, the most widely cultivated, trafficked, and abused illicit drug, accounting for half of all drug seizures worldwide. About 147 million people, or 2.5% of the world’s population, consume cannabis each year. billion people according to the UN ).

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LifeCannMD

APRIL 30, 2025

You will receive an approval email from the state, which allows you to be legally able to visit any of the states dispensaries or call a medical marijuana treatment center to arrange for delivery the day of your appointment. No more waiting for the card to come in.

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Americans for Safe Access

JULY 14, 2025

Over the weekend, the death of Jamie Garcia—a worker at a state-licensed cannabis cultivation site in Los Angeles—during an ICE raid sent shockwaves through the medical cannabis community. states having legalized medical cannabis in some form, Garcia’s death is more than a tragedy.

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Veriheal

JULY 3, 2025

The good news is that most of the legal cannabis consumed in each state is grown within that state. As such, each state where cannabis is legal has to grow, process, and distribute the herb entirely within its borders. So, yes, tariffs won’t affect your legal marijuana if it’s grown in-state.

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Medicinal Genomics

JULY 10, 2025

Contamination can occur at any point—during cultivation, harvesting, or packaging—making routine microbial testing essential for quality control. Some strains, such as E. coli O157:H7 , can cause severe illness even in low concentrations.

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Kind Meds (Cannabis Education Blog)

JULY 3, 2025

We actively stock and support: Small-batch cultivators with premium flower Minority-owned brands pushing the industry forward Arizona-born edibles, vapes, and concentrates you won’t find in chain dispensaries We believe the best cannabis experiences come from people who care about the plant and the people.

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Veriheal

JUNE 10, 2025

This act is significant for making the cultivation, possession, and usage of natural medicines like psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine, and mescaline legal in the state. What Does the Colorado Law Legalize Specifically? Healing Applicants must obtain a natural medicine handler license to operate their healing center locations legally.

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NORML

JANUARY 25, 2024

State regulations governing the alcohol market permit adults the option to legally brew non-commercial quantities of their own alcohol, and it is consistent with this policy to similarly permit home cultivation. The post New York: Regulators to Sign Off on Home Cultivation Rules at February Meeting appeared first on NORML.

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NORML

APRIL 8, 2020

Under existing regulations, the agency only licenses one facility — the University of Mississippi — to cultivate cannabis for use in FDA-approved clinical trials. ” An abbreviated version of NORML’s comments appears here. .”

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NORML

MARCH 25, 2024

Residents ages 18 and older may possess (up to 25 grams) and home cultivate cannabis (up to three plants) beginning on April 1st. The post Germany: Those 18+ May Legally Begin Possessing Cannabis Next Week appeared first on NORML.

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NORML

AUGUST 12, 2024

North Dakota voters will decide on Election Day whether to approve a citizens' initiated ballot measure legalizing the use, home cultivation, and retail sale of cannabis. The post North Dakota: Marijuana Legalization Measure Will Appear on November Ballot appeared first on NORML.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

"The option to grow for oneself is a fundamental right which has been part of legalization in the great majority of the 20 other states which have now taken the historic step of repealing the criminal prohibition of responsible adult marijuana use."

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NORML

DECEMBER 7, 2023

"Today, for the first time since the adoption of federal marijuana prohibition, more US citizens reside in jurisdictions where cannabis is state-legal than live somewhere where it is not," NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said. The post Ohio: Voter-Approved Legalization Measure Takes Effect appeared first on NORML.

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NORML

JANUARY 30, 2025

Changes proposed by SB 36 include raising taxes on the retail sale of cannabis products, imposing new restrictions on home-cultivation, setting an arbitrary cap on the total number of retailers allowed statewide, and providing new penalties for adults who share their cannabis with others.

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NORML

JUNE 25, 2019

Pritzker has signed legislation legalizing the adult use of marijuana and regulating its commercial production and retail sale. Illinois is now the eleventh state to legalize adult-use marijuana, and it is the second state to legalize marijuana use via legislative action rather than by voter initiative. Illinois Gov.

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NORML

JUNE 28, 2023

As of this Saturday, July 1st, those age 21 or older may begin legally growing personal use quantities of cannabis at home. The post Connecticut: Law Change Permitting Adults to Home Cultivate Cannabis Takes Effect on Saturday appeared first on NORML.

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NORML

JANUARY 1, 2021

Adults may legally possess up to one ounce of marijuana and/or privately cultivate up to four mature cannabis plants. The post Montana: Adult-Use Legalization Law Takes Effect appeared first on NORML.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

A complex and comprehensive plan laid out in over 200 pages of legislative text, the CRTA would implement one of the most tightly regulated, highly taxed and heavily controlled legal cannabis markets in the world. The explicit language barring patients from “smoking” would be removed.

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NORML

MARCH 30, 2021

Marijuana Revenue and Taxation Act (MRTA) legalizes and regulates the adult-use, commercial marijuana market in New York State, while also permitting those over the age of 21 to cultivate personal-use quantities of cannabis in their own homes.

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NORML

AUGUST 2, 2019

A federal court has ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration to respond to a lawsuit charging the agency with failing to move forward with a 2016 policy to expand the total number of federally licensed marijuana cultivators. Additional information regarding the SRI petition is available online here.

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NORML

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Provisions legalizing marijuana possession, use, and personal cultivation take immediate effect. 207 Legalization Measure Officially Takes Effect appeared first on NORML. The post Arizona: Prop.

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NORML

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In 2012, I was proud to help fund and promote the passage of I-502 which legalized, taxed, and regulated marijuana in my home state of Washington. Legislation is currently stalled in the House and Senate to allow adults to cultivate up to six marijuana plants in their homes. But, even more simply, it just makes sense.

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NORML

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

NORML Board Member and California NORML Director Dale Gieringer said that the legal cannabis market in California is already "burdened by excessive taxes and regulation. California needs to be reducing, not increasing cannabis taxes to make the legal market more competitive.”.

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