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• New Hampshire Marijuana Legalization Commission Fails To Reach Consensus, Votes Against Recommending Bill For 2024 November 28, 2023
  A New Hampshire commission charged with drafting legislation to legalize marijuana through a system of state-controlled stores decided at its final meeting on Monday not to issue recommendations at all. The conclusion leaves open questions about how lawmakers will proceed with cannabis reform in the coming 2024 session. After months of meetings, the 19-member panel […]
  Ben Adlin
• Fetterman Says Pennsylvania Is Getting ‘Lapped’ On Marijuana Legalization By Nearby States Because GOP Opposes ‘Common Sense’ Policy November 28, 2023
  Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) says marijuana legalization is “inevitable.” But yet another one of his home state’s neighbors enacts the reform, he concedes that the path in Pennsylvania has proved more challenging amid GOP resistance to the “common sense” policy that’s backed by the majority of voters. The senator—who has long championed cannabis legalization and […]
  Kyle Jaeger
• New Jersey Governor Is ‘Very Much Open-Minded’ To Legalizing Marijuana Home Grow, But Says Market Needs To Mature First November 28, 2023
  New Jersey’s governor says he remains “very much open-minded” about the idea of adding a home grow option to the state’s marijuana law—but he still wants to give the licensed industry more time to mature before implementing that change. In an interview with New 12 New Jersey on Monday, Gov. Phil Murphy (D) was asked […]
  Kyle Jaeger
• Alabama Officials Set To Award Medical Marijuana Licenses—Again—Later This Week November 28, 2023
  “I don’t think that our process before this one was flawed. There was value in what we did.” By Ralph Chapoco, Alabama Reflector Companies went before the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission Monday to make their cases for getting licenses, kicking off the third attempt to award medical marijuana licenses in the state. Most of the […]
  Marijuana Moment
• Washington State Organizers Are Pushing To Decriminalize Psychedelics In Six Local Jurisdictions, With Eyes On Statewide Reform November 28, 2023
  Advocates in Washington State say they’re looking forward to trying again to enact state-level psychedelics reform during the coming legislative session, especially after an effort earlier this year to broadly decriminalize psilocybin was watered down by lawmakers into a far more limited pilot program for mental health. But for now, much of the activity happening […]
  Ben Adlin