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Attorney General Pam Bondi missed a congressionally mandated deadline to issue guidelines for easing barriers to research on Schedule I substances such as marijuana and psychedelics.
House and Senate Appropriations Committee leaders released a funding bill and attached reports that would require Customs and Border Protection to provide a briefing on seizures of marijuana products from state-legal businesses, direct a health agency to publish information about cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome and block transportation officials from encouraging illegal drug or alcohol use in impaired driving PSAs.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) told Marijuana Moment that while there are “things that look promising” about the Trump administration’s cannabis rescheduling move, he is “very concerned about where the DOJ will land.”
The Florida Senate Regulated Industries Committee approved a bill to ban smoking or vaping marijuana in public places, a development that comes as an industry-funded campaign is seeking to place a recreational cannabis legalization initiative on the November ballot.
David Spang of Coastal Green Wellness authored an op-ed calling on South Carolina lawmakers to pass an amendment to create “a framework for responsible regulations for hemp-derived consumable products.”
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The National Institute on Drug Abuse said in its newsletter that federal marijuana rescheduling will “facilitate cannabis research.”
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee removed mention of marijuana and other substances from a bill requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to study how frequently hospital emergency departments test for fentanyl.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) spoke on the House floor about how hemp is “an alternative crop to tobacco for Kentucky farmers.”
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Florida’s attorney general announced 46 new criminal investigations related to petitioning for a marijuana legalization initiative as well as the issuance of four criminal subpoenas seeking records from the campaign and its contractors and subcontractors. Separately, the campaign is urging the state Supreme Court to allow its initiative to appear on the November ballot.
A Pennsylvania representative said he is working to build support for a bill to allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis in healthcare facilities.
Tennessee lawmakers discussed pending marijuana legislation.
The officially listed proponent of a Maine initiative to roll back marijuana legalization said he did not write it and was unaware it would end legal recreational cannabis sales.
Massachusetts’s top marijuana regulator discussed efforts to reduce red tape faced by cannabis businesses.
Utah regulators sent updates about the medical cannabis program.
Minnesota regulators sent a newsletter with various cannabis updates.
New Jersey regulators published a podcast episode about an official who provides support to cannabis businesses.
The Alaska Marijuana Control Board Laboratory Testing Working Group will meet on Thursday.
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