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#1 Adults in Ohio Can Legally Possess and Grow Marijuana – But There’s Nowhere to Buy It

Dec 11 2023 // COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohioans woke up Thursday in a land of recreational marijuana limbo, in which adults can legally grow and possess cannabis at home, but cannot legally buy it.That combination of factors related to a...

#2 Cannabis Insurance Specialists See Optimism in 2024 Data, Planning for Growth and More Capacity

Dec 15 2023 // From a broad view, data from the cannabis industry fails to paint an informative picture of what lies ahead for the business in 2024 or what the year holds for insurance professionals specializing in servicing the...

#3 Lawsuit Blames Negligence by Plant Owner, HVAC Contractors for Cannabis Worker’s Asthma Death

Nov 29 2023 // A lawsuit has been filed over what has been identified as the cannabis industry’s first asthma workplace death.The mother of a worker who died from an asthma attack at a Massachusetts cannabis processing plant in...

#4 Reporting High Electric Bills Helps Nab Illegal Marijuana Farms But Raises Privacy Issues

Aug 14 2024 // Operators of illegal marijuana grow enterprises hidden inside rural homes in Maine don’t have to worry much about prying neighbors. But their staggering electric bills may give rise to a new snitch.An electric...

#5 Takeaways from Our Conversation with Insuring Cannabis Pro About His Son’s CBD Trial

Nov 30 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tvErich Schutz has been a cannabis insurance specialist since around the time it first became legal, dropping into a competitive business with acumen, knowledge and passion. He even adopted a...

#6 Texas Lawmakers Zero In on Exploding Hemp Industry

May 15 2024 // Austin hemp entrepreneur Shayda Torabi is looking at a year filled with uncertainty.For the six years they’ve been in business, Torabi and her two sisters have operated Restart, their hemp dispensary, in a modest...

#7 Delta-8 Hemp, Medical Marijuana Industries to Face Off in Texas Legislative Session

Nov 1 2024 // Jack Stinnett got life-changing news in 2020 when he learned the lump that appeared on the side of his neck was tongue and mouth cancer. He and his wife Karen quickly enrolled him at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,...

#8 New Mexico Revoked Licenses of Cannabis Growers and Fined Them $2M for Safety, Other Violations

Jan 9 2024 // New Mexico marijuana regulators revoked the licenses of two growing operations in a rural county for numerous violations and have levied a $1 million fine against each business.One of the businesses, Native American...

#9 Cannabis Firm Fights Insurer’s Denial of Business Income Loss Claim Following Fire

Jul 29 2024 // A Berkshire Hathaway insurer is insisting it does not owe $1.3 million in claimed business income losses to a cannabis growing company after a building fire shuttered one of its “flowering” rooms for 68...

#10 Medical Cannabis User Fired After Failing Drug Test Appeals Denial of Job Benefits

Jun 3 2024 // A Vermont man who lost his job after he said a random drug test showed he had used medical marijuana off duty for chronic pain has appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court saying he should not have been denied a portion of...

#11 After Crash Killed 6 Teens, NTSB Says Marijuana’s Impact on Drivers Underestimated

Jul 23 2024 // A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using...

#12 Maine Has No Medical Cannabis Testing Requirement. Health Advocates Urge Change.

Jul 10 2024 // Keri-Jon Wilson started as a hobbyist, making medical marijuana edibles on a small scale for patients suffering from chronic pain and cancer. But in 2015 she expanded her business, Portland-based Pot + Pan Manufacturing,...

#13 Claim on Seized Hemp Shipment Barred, Showing Trickiness of Coverage

Aug 1 2024 // International treaties preempt state-based legal actions, giving an air transport company an escape from claims on what a hemp producer said was botched paperwork for an overseas hemp shipment, a federal appeals court...

#14 Virginia Gov. Youngkin Vetoes Retail Marijuana, Minimum Wage Hike, Workers’ Comp Bills

Apr 3 2024 // Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed two top Democratic legislative priorities last Thursday: bills that would have allowed the recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year and measures mandating a...

#15 Company Vows to Sue Over Damages After New Mexico Police Destroy Cannabis Crops

Nov 7 2024 // State police have destroyed tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana plants at greenhouses in northwestern New Mexico, marking what regulators say is the largest seizure and destruction of cannabis in New Mexico since new...

#16 Mississippi City Councilman Pleads Guilty to Selling Doctored CBD Products

May 6 2024 // GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi city council member pleaded guilty to federal charges after running a multimillion-dollar illegal drug business, prosecutors said last week.Biloxi City Council member Robert Leon...

#17 Recreational Marijuana Supporters Can Gather Signatures for No. Dakota Ballot Initiative

Apr 30 2024 // BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota ballot initiative group can gather signatures to put a proposal legalizing recreational marijuana to a statewide vote in the fall, the state’s top election official said last...

#18 Pennsylvania High Court to Decide If Workers’ Compensation Covers CBD Oil

May 3 2024 // A veteran Pennsylvania workers’ compensation attorney will soon have a chance to argue before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that his own use of cannabinoid oil (CBD oil) is covered by workers’...

#19 Kansas Won’t Legalize Medical Marijuana for at Least a Year

May 1 2024 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will remain among the handful of states that haven’t legalized the medical use of marijuana or expanded their Medicaid programs for at least another year.Republican state senators on...

#20 Takeaways from Our Conversation on Q1 2020 in Insuring Cannabis

Mar 12 2024 // Cannabis had a bit of a down year last year, but 2024 holds some hope for continued growth – maybe even a return to semblances of the old pace.As we head into the final month of the first quarter, one would think we...