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Thursday marks the end of President Joe Biden’s first year in office—and, by and large, his campaign promises on marijuana policy have so far gone unfilled. And while certain federal agencies have taken some positive reform steps, the administration managed to stir controversy over some outwardly hostile actions with respect to cannabis policy. Contrary to Biden’s campaign pledges, cannabis has not been federally decriminalized, people remain in federal prison over non-violent marijuana offenses and the plant has yet to be rescheduled under the Controlled Substances Act. Of the cannabis promises that Biden made while running for president, just one has…

Thursday marks the end of President Joe Biden’s first year in office—and, by and large, his campaign promises on marijuana policy have so far gone unfilled. And while certain federal agencies have taken some positive reform steps, the administration managed to stir controversy over some outwardly hostile actions with respect to cannabis policy. Contrary to Biden’s campaign pledges, cannabis has not been federally decriminalized, people remain in federal prison over non-violent marijuana offenses and the plant has yet to be rescheduled under the Controlled Substances Act. Of the cannabis promises that Biden made while running for president, just one has…

Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 14, 2022, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire reversed a trial court decision that dismissed a former employee’s complaint alleging his employer failed to consider whether it could reasonably accommodate his use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. New Hampshire joins a growing number of other jurisdictions that have found an employer might have to consider medical marijuana use as a reasonable accommodation. The former employee alleged that he suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and that his physician had recommended that he use marijuana to treat his PTSD. He enrolled in the state’s therapeutic marijuana program and…

It is no secret that security clearance applicants will run into trouble if they have used marijuana. With an increasing number of state and local governments legalizing or decriminalizing uses of marijuana, however, both applicants seeking a clearance and some adjudicative agencies have questioned whether marijuana use should remain a potentially disqualifying security concern. Since 1996, when California became the first state to legalize medical marijuana, 18 states plus Washington, D.C., Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands now allow marijuana for adult use and 36 states plus D.C., Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands…

The Thriving Youth Task Force in Darien will present a virtual program on “Vaping, Edibles and the ‘New’ Marijuana: What Every Parent Needs to Know,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 25, via Zoom. Local experts will discuss Connecticut’s new marijuana laws as well as marijuana’s effect on youth. The panel will include Darien Chief of Police Don Anderson; John Hamilton, president and CEO of Liberation Programs, an addiction treatment center; Susannah Lewis, director of community relations at Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan. The program will provide parents with information about how marijuana impacts the brain of a teenager, according…

Despite the cannabis industry sell-off, now is not the time to get disheartened with marijuana stocks. The industry is just heating up and more states could legalize cannabis this year. Although prospects of federal legalization aren’t looking favorable now, most of the domestic companies are positioned to benefit investors long-term if and when legalization happens. Florida-based Trulieve Cannabis (OTC:TCNNF) is one such cannabis grower that has shown outstanding growth in the last couple of years, even with a limited legal market. The worst mistake Trulieve investors can make right now is to sell this stock due to the industry’s downtrend. Here are…