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GOP senators goal hashish trade tax cuts (Newsletter: February 10, 2025)

Trump price range director: marijuana a “gateway drug”; HI legalization stalls; Rescheduling listening to participant withdraws; IL gov touts $2B hashish gross sales Subscribe to obtain Marijuana Moment’s e-newsletter in your inbox each weekday morning. It’s the easiest way to ensure you know which hashish tales are shaping the day. Your assist makes Marijuana Moment doable… […]

Bipartisan Senators Address Marijuana Industry Banking Challenges At Hearing Despite Chairman’s Focus On ‘Federally Legal’ Businesses

U.S. senators on each side of the aisle addressed the shortage of banking entry for the marijuana business at a committee listening to on Wednesday, with one GOP member suggesting that the difficulty warrants a broader examination of federal hashish insurance policies. Meanwhile, a separate House committee additionally met to debate banking points, the place […]

New York Senators File Bill To Decriminalize Possession Of All Drugs

New York senators have launched a invoice for the 2025 session to broadly decriminalize drug possession. The laws from Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D) and 4 cosponsors would each eradicate felony and civil penalties for drug possession whereas additionally making a activity power that’d be chargeable for learning and making suggestions about further reforms. A justification […]

Virginia Senators Approve Marijuana Record-Sealing Bill, Rejecting Separate Measure To Allow Police Searches Based On Cannabis Smell

A Virginia Senate committee has advanced legislation that would seal criminal records pertaining to simple marijuana possession offenses and revise the state’s record-sealing process around cannabis paraphernalia crimes. The panel also shot down a separate proposal that would have allowed law enforcement to use the odor of marijuana as probable cause for a search. The […]

Senators Back Bill to Tackle Big Pharma’s Rocketing Prescription Drug Prices

Built-in structures to incentivize jacking up drug prices in pharmacies, and prey on seniors, could soon be whittled down. Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) were among those who voted Wednesday to advance a bipartisan bill she personally helped develop to reduce the rocketing cost of prescription drugs and the way pharmacy managers […]

Colombia Senators Approve Cannabis Legalization Bill

A bill to legalize cannabis in Colombia passed in the Senate on Tuesday. The primary focus of ending the war on cannabis is directly tied to halting organized crime, and illicit activities and addressing overpopulated prisons. Sen. María José Pizarro, the Senator behind the legislation, wrote in an op-ed last month that current cannabis prohibition […]

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