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A powerful House committee on Thursday approved spending bills and related reports that touch on a wide range of marijuana and drug policy issues—including calls to remove roadblocks to research into cannabis, noting the lifesaving potential of safe consumption sites for illegal substances, recognizing the painkilling promise of the kratom plant and urging the development of technology to detect impairment from THC. Importantly, the legislation that cleared the House Appropriations Committee would also maintain an existing provision that shields state medical marijuana laws from intervention by the Justice Department. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, thanked…

New drug czar touted medical marijuana benefits; NJ clears 88,000 cannabis cases; CA psychedelics bill vote; SC GOP senator defends Dem over marijuana Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Your good deed for the day: donate to an independent publisher like Marijuana Moment and ensure that as many voters as possible have access to the most in-depth cannabis reporting out there. Rick Bashkoff, Receptive Capital: “I try to read it every day and…

Delta-8 THC, a trendy new cannabinoid being touted as “marijuana lite,” has managed to squeeze through a legal loophole and onto the shelves of CBD shops, head shops and convenience stores across the country. “Many people are interested in Delta-8 THC because it sounds like it has a lot of health benefits, it’s stronger than CBD, it’s relatively cheap, you don’t have to go to a dispensary to get it and it does give you a little bit of a high — though it’s weaker and usually shorter-acting than marijuana,” explains Michele Ross, PhD, a neuroscientist who studies the medical…

Editor’s note: This story was updated to clarify Hemp Benchmarks’ data on acres licensed for hemp cultivation. When Matt Cyrus grew about 30 acres of hemp on his central Oregon hay and cattle farm four years ago, the cannabis plants—rich in cannabidiol, or CBD, a trendy wellness product—sold for about $40 a pound. That earned him a tidy profit. He planted 90 acres in 2019, hoping to make even more money. Thousands of conventional farmers, marijuana growers and rookie entrepreneurs likewise rushed to plant hemp that year, eager to cash in on a newly legal crop. But rather than making…

WILLIMANTIC, CT — Beginning this fall semester, Eastern Connecticut State University will offer one of Connecticut’s first hemp cultivation minors with an eye toward expansion as an interdisciplinary major in the future. The announcement follows recent state legislation making Connecticut the 19th state to legalize recreational marijuana. Licensed in the State of Connecticut as an official hemp producer with the Department of Agriculture, Eastern can now host classes in how to cultivate hemp from seed to harvest. Leading the program at Eastern is plant biologist Bryan Connolly, who hopes the program will attract new students to the study of plant…

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The civil judgment, the second-highest ever awarded in Montana, highlights volatility and growing pains in the CBD market. By Amanda Eggert, Montana Free Press Hemp, a crop that largely flew under the radar in Montana when it was planted under a pilot program three years ago, is now central to one of the largest civil awards in the state’s history. A jury in Wolf Point last month awarded 25 eastern Montana farmers $65 million in compensatory and punitive damages, finding that a handful of Canadian and American businessmen had committed negligence, fraud and deceit in failing to fulfill contracts, leaving…

ID marijuana ballot measure cleared for signatures; Court tosses OH cannabis decrim lawsuit; OR psilocybin report Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… BREAKING: Journalism is often consumed for free, but costs money to produce! While this newsletter is proudly sent without cost to you, our ability to send it each day depends on the financial support of readers who can afford to give it. So if you’ve got a few dollars to spare…