All Activity

Ahead of the upcoming unofficial cannabis holiday on 4/20, a top marijuana reform group is asking consumers to take a poll about the freedoms (or lack thereof) that they experience where they live. The new 2026 Cannabis Freedom Survey from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) includes questions like “Where you live, how free are adults to legally possess and access cannabis?” and “Where you live, how concerned are you about legal consequences for cannabis consumers?” The survey is “designed to capture real-time sentiment from cannabis consumers across the United States and beyond, offering a snapshot of how individuals experience cannabis policy in their daily lives,” NORML said. The poll also includes a question asking people to choose “the most important step that would increase cannabis freedom where you live.” Options include: end marijuana arrests, legalize marijuana for adults, let adults grow their own cannabis, allow legal cannabis sales, make legal cannabis more affordable, clear records and fix past convictions, change federal cannabis laws and protect consumer rights (parental, workplace, housing, healthcare). It additionally asks whether respondents view marijuana policy at the national level as fully respecting consumer freedom, moving in the right direction, stuck with no meaningful progress or moving backwards. Cannabis freedom depends on where you live. With 4/20 approaching, NORML is asking: Where you live, how free do you feel to consume cannabis? Take the 2-minute Cannabis Freedom Survey >> https://t.co/lhp0uK4NyJ — NORML (@NORML) April 7, 2026 “In some jurisdictions, cannabis comes with real freedom. In others, it still comes with real consequences,” NORML Development Director JM Pedini said in a press release. “This survey is about capturing that gap—not just what the laws say, but how people actually experience them.” Pedini told Marijuana Moment that the organization will likely compile the results and publish them a few days ahead of 4/20. The post Marijuana Reform Group Polls Consumers About Freedoms Where They Live Ahead Of 4/20 appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

“The governor, the attorney general, and now, apparently, the Department of Agriculture are going around the law to try to ban this product that is legal in Nebraska.” By Phillip Smith, The American Hemp Monitor Nebraska hemp businesses generate an estimated $10 million in sales tax revenue each year and employ around 2,000 Nebraskans, but the state is adopting a novel approach to cracking down on hemp-derived cannabinoid products, in a move is drawing a backlash from the hemp industry and local politicians. Following up on a January executive order from Gov. Jim Pillen (R), “Protecting Nebraskans from Intoxicating Synthetic Cannabinoid Products,” the state Department of Agriculture has posted new proposed regulations that would restrict the sale of many hemp-derived products by classifying them as “adulterated” under the Nebraska Pure Food Act. Such a designation would effectively bar stores from selling the products. That’s the idea, Pillen said as he released his executive order. “We must be able to protect our kids from these products. They’re marketed like something they are not and the hemp industry is taking advantage of that fact, said Pillen. But Joseph Fraas of the Nebraska Healthy Alternatives Association said the proposal was nothing more than an effort to wipe out the industry. “This is kind of the old guard’s dying attempt to ban this,” Fraas said. “It would make anyone that sells it liable, civilly liable, and would basically destroy your business if you were caught selling it. It’s another version of them going around the legislature, going around the will of the people,” Fraas said. The move is also getting push-back from state Sen. John Cavanaugh (D), who argues that the executive branch is exceeding its authority by imposing such restrictions and that the 2018 federal Farm Bill protects hemp-derived products (at least until November). “The governor, the attorney general, and now, apparently, the Department of Agriculture are going around the law to try to ban this product that is legal in Nebraska,” Cavanaugh said. “The agencies are granted authority by statute. And the point of my letter is that they do not have authority to regulate this.” Cavanaugh is calling on the Agriculture Department to pause its rulemaking process and let an interim legislative study committee parse the issue instead. But Pillen is undeterred and in fact doubled down on his broader opposition to cannabis reforms. He and the state’s Republican establishment fought bitterly to fend off medical marijuana legalization only to be defeated by the state’s voters in 2024. “Come to the Pardons Board and listen to 40 families’ stories to see how off-track in the ravine they dug,” Pillen said. “And most of it all starts with marijuana. The ballot initiative was medical cannabis. It wasn’t for THC everywhere, and it wasn’t for over-the-counter. And it wasn’t for recreational marijuana. I’m fighting that.” A hearing for the proposed regulations is set for the Department of Agriculture’s office in Lincoln on April 21. This story was first published by The American Hemp Monitor. The post Nebraska Senator Pushes Back Against Restrictive Hemp Rules Proposed By State Regulators appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

“Something real—something built with care—is being dismantled by people who never had to love it to profit from it.” By John Grady, Slaphappy Hemp Company A recent Marijuana Moment op-ed authored by Max Jackson of Cannabis Wise Guys argues that the hemp industry killed itself and that no one—except the bad actors in the sector itself—is to blame for the result. The bad actors the piece describes are real, and some of the failures it documents are accurate. But the conclusion—that state legislatures are fairly responding to industry abuse—lacks strength. What’s actually moving through those capitols is market consolidation dressed as consumer protection. The bad actors provided the pretext. The legislation is doing the work. This was never a hemp problem or a marijuana problem. It was always a one plant problem—and it demands a one plant solution. As a hemp farmer, I have stood in my field from dusk to dawn and watched my plants breathe—leaves turning down through the night, rising again to reach for the sun by morning. I have spent hours studying them, the way the light moves through the canopy at different times of day, the way a cola catches the last hour of light and holds it. I know this plant. I love this plant. That is what you should know before you read another word. The Pretext Is Real. The Response Is Not Proportionate Yes, the 500 mg THC hemp gummy jars that Jackson’s op-ed points to are real. Yes, some hemp retailers sold products without age verification. Yes, bad actors exploited the regulatory gap. None of that is in dispute. But consider the math. A gram of state-regulated marijuana flower at 23 percent THC—a common potency in licensed dispensaries—contains 230 mg of THC. A standard eighth at 3.5 grams contains over 800 mg. The 500 mg gummy jar that Jackson says triggered this national legislative campaign contains less THC than a single eighth of flower sold legally at dispensaries every day, but nobody in the cannabis space is proposing to ban dispensary flower. States aren’t responding to high-dose hemp products by capping dosage. They are eliminating the independent hemp retail channel entirely and routing all sales through licensed marijuana dispensaries. That is not a proportionate response. That is an opportunity the 500 mg jar created. The hemp industry wasn’t ignoring the problem. In Missouri alone, multiple regulatory bills were introduced to enact age verification, independent testing, labeling requirements and licensing fees proportionate to small business scale. Michigan had similar legislation moving through its Senate. Minnesota’s model—licensing, age-gating, labeling, per-serving THC limits—is now being cited by federal legislators as proof that state regulation can address public safety without blanket prohibition. The framework existed, but the will to use it fairly did not. I Watched It Happen On March 31, I stood in the Missouri Capitol when the Senate passed HB 2641, which if enacted into law will remove many currently legal hemp products from the market. The Senate Fiscal Oversight Committee asked the bill’s sponsor to meet with the hemp industry, but he declined. The follow-up happened at 10 p.m. without public notice and without a single hemp industry voice in the room. The bill then sped through the legislature and is now on Gov. Mike Kehoe’s (R) desk. Texas tells a similar story. The legislature there tried to ban hemp, but Gov. Greg Abbott (R) vetoed it. Subsequent efforts to pass a ban in two special sessions failed. Regulators then accomplished through administrative workarounds what lawmakers couldn’t do through legislation—until a Travis County judge paused the rules as an illegal separation of powers violation. When the democratic process doesn’t deliver the desired outcome, the regulatory process is being used to finish the job. This is not an industry collapsing under the weight of its own failures. This is an industry being eliminated through coordinated legislative, regulatory and legal pressure. The Science Being Cited Doesn’t Support The Conclusion Jackson’s op-ed on the alleged failures of the hemp industry cites a peer-reviewed study showing 62.5 percent of CBD websites and 30 percent of Delta-8 websites required no age verification, and that and not one product out of twenty required verification at delivery. This analysis of the behavior of just 20 retailers is now being used to indict a $70 billion industry generating $13 billion in wages. While peer review confirms the methodology was sound, it does not validate the sample. Every age-restricted product sold online—alcohol, tobacco and firearms—faces the same self-reported confirmation challenge. Presenting it as a hemp-specific failure while the study’s own authors acknowledge it applies universally is not science informing policy. Who Built This Framework And Who Benefits The marijuana industry spent years lobbying for its complex, expensive regulatory framework. They wrote those rules. Now the argument is that hemp must be forced through that same framework—the one they built, the one they profit from. Sierra Nevada didn’t put Budweiser out of business. Craft brewers expanded the culture and the big guys survived. Nobody routed craft beer through Anheuser-Busch distribution networks to protect the legacy industry. Age verification, testing and labeling enforced equally—without routing every transaction through a specially licensed channel—is the model. If the marijuana industry believes its own standards are too burdensome, the argument should be for reform—not for imposing them on a competitor as a market entry barrier. What We Built Across the hemp industry there are people who spend nights getting it right. The right name. The right scent. The right formula. Hours of research and iteration and failure and trying again—driven not by a licensing requirement but by a genuine obsession with what this plant can do for people. Farmers and small operators who looked at each other one evening and said, “Look at us—doing this better and still cheaper.” And the feedback came. Real people. Real relief. Veterans. Cancer patients. People who had tried everything else and found something that worked. For years the hemp industry lobbied for exactly this kind of regulatory framework. Age verification. Testing standards. Labeling requirements. What industry fights for its own regulation? One that believes in what it is selling. The argument is always the same. Unregulated must equate to untested and sold to children. Nothing about this feels unintended. Something real—something built with care—is being dismantled by people who never had to love it to profit from it. And nobody in power seems to be asking what is actually being lost before it’s gone. What Actually Needs to Happen One standard should apply to all intoxicating cannabinoid products regardless of label. Steve DeAngelo—co-founder of Harborside, one of the first six licensed dispensaries in the U.S.—helped establish the One Plant Alliance last November on exactly that principle: age verification, testing and labeling applied equally across every sector of the plant. No mandatory dispensary routing. Three science-based standards. A level playing field. Congress is moving the same direction. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced the Cannabinoid Safety and Regulation Act with provisions for age verification, testing, labeling, Food and Drug Administration oversight and no blanket ban. The separate bipartisan Hemp Planting Predictability Act would delay the November 2026 federal deadline to give Congress time to build a permanent framework. States racing to eliminate this industry before that process concludes may find they have done the consolidators’ work for them—and left their own farmers and patients with nothing to show for it. One Plant My wife Kara and I built the Hemporium in Rosebud, Missouri. People joke it’s the Cracker Barrel of weed. Walk in and you’ll find rope and hemp seed oil alongside flower and tinctures and beverages. People who never expected to walk into a place like this walk out knowing more than they came in with. Not a loophole, but a relationship with a plant and with each other. A market built by activists, patients, farmers and small operators—people who fought for access long before recreational marijuana became a multi-billion dollar industry state by state—is being restructured to benefit a consolidating group of national and multinational operators. Legal recreational marijuana arrived and the lines got redrawn. We all argued for this plant to be treated like tomatoes. What happened? Cypress Hill said it plainly: “The marijuana plant is the hemp plant.” Willie Nelson straddles both markets without apology. His footprint is everywhere because he chose partnership over war. The multi-state operator marijuana businesses could do the same. Their brands could be in every Hemporium in America—in every community that built a relationship with this plant before the lawyers arrived. The One Plant Alliance built the framework. Congress is building the bridge. The only thing missing is the will to stop the war. John Grady is a hemp farmer and co-founder of Slaphappy Hemp Company and the Hemporium in Rosebud, Missouri. The post The Hemp Industry Is Being Killed By Market Consolidation Disguised As Consumer Protection (Op-Ed) appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

Seven out of ten Pennsylvania likely voters support legalizing marijuana, according to a new poll. That includes majority backing for the reform across party lines. When asked whether they “support or oppose the regulation and taxation of legal cannabis for use by adults 21 and older in Pennsylvania,” 69 percent of respondents said yes. Support was strongest from Democrats, at 72 percent, but also includes 67 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of independents. The survey, which was commissioned by the Pennsylvania Cannabis Coalition (PCC) and conducted by Susquehanna Polling & Research, also found majority support for legalizing marijuana across every age and racial demographic, as well as each geographic area across the state. Support for ending cannabis prohibition increased even further when respondents were asked about legalization legislation including provisions for “strict consumer safety standards, product testing requirements and strong protections to prevent youth access.” In that case, a total of 72 percent of voters said they would be more likely to back the reform. The poll also asked about hemp, with 89 percent of respondents saying they would support legislation that “restricts sales of intoxicating THC products to licensed, state-regulated businesses and removes these unregulated products from gas stations and convenience stores.” “Pennsylvanians are sending a clear message: they want a system that is safe, regulated, and responsible,” Meredith Buettner Schneider, executive director of PCC, said in a press release on Monday. “Right now, intoxicating THC products are being sold with little oversight, often in places that lack proper safeguards. That is unacceptable.” The survey involved interviews with 705 likely Pennsylvania voters from March 7–19, 2026, and has a margin of error is ±3.7% at a 95% confidence level. The results come as Pennsylvania’s governor is increasing pressure on lawmakers to send him a bill to legalize marijuana in the state, saying that doing so would generate new revenue that could be invested in key programs. “While some in Harrisburg claim we can’t afford to make bigger investments in our kids, public safety, and our economy, know this: If we legalized and regulated adult-use cannabis, we’d bring in $1.3 BILLION in revenue for our Commonwealth over the first five years,” Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said in a social media post last week. “Those are dollars that can be invested back into our people and our communities,” he said. “Stop with the excuses. Let’s get this done.” Earlier this year, the governor again included marijuana legalization in his budget request to lawmakers, but so far the legislature has not enacted the reform. The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives last year passed a bill to legalize marijuana and put sales in state-owned dispensaries, but the Republican Senate majority has criticized that plan while also not advancing a cannabis legalization model of its own. The state’s Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) reported in February that legalizing cannabis in Pennsylvania would generate nearly half a billion dollars in annual revenue by 2028, an estimate that is a significantly larger cash windfall compared to projections from Shapiro’s own office. With a proposed 20 percent wholesale cannabis excise tax, 6 percent state sales tax for retail and licensing fees, IFO said the governor’s legalization plan would generate $140 million in tax revenue in the first year of implementation from 2027-2028 and increase to $432 million by 2030-2031. That’s a much higher revenue estimate than what the governor’s office put forward in the latest executive budget. According to his office’s analysis, legalization would generate about $36.9 million in tax dollars in its first year from a 20 percent wholesale tax on marijuana—rising gradually to $223.8 million by 2030-2031. A recent Quinnipiac University Poll also found that a majority of Pennsylvania voters say they’re ready for the state to legalize adult-use marijuana. In February, a coalition of drug policy and civil liberties organizations urged Shapiro to play a leadership role in convening legislative leaders to get the job done on cannabis legalization this session. Last month, the Senate Law and Justice Committee amended and approved a bill to create a Cannabis Control Board (CCB) to oversee the state’s medical marijuana program and intoxicating hemp products and that could eventually regulate adult-use cannabis if it is legalized in the state. “This polling shows strong support for policies like SB 49 that would eliminate the unregulated hemp intoxicant market and provide much needed consumer protections,” Buettner Schneider said of the new survey results on Monday. The post Pennsylvania Voters Support Marijuana Legalization Across Party Lines, New Poll Shows appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

Major retailer Target is expanding its participation in the hemp-derived THC beverage market, even as a federal law is set to ban the products later this year. Last year, the company began a pilot program involving sales of cannabis drinks at 10 select stores in Minnesota. That apparently went well, and now the company has obtained licenses from Minnesota regulators to sell lower-potency hemp edible products—including THC drinks—at all 72 of its stores in the state. According to a review of Office of Cannabis Management data, Target, which is headquartered in Minnesota, now holds more lower-potency hemp edible licenses in the state than any other company. The new licenses were obtained on April 1 and will last for a year. The move comes months after Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed legislation that will recriminalize hemp-derived products containing more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per container. Bipartisan lawmakers in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have pushed for a delay in the scheduled ban, which is set to take effect in November, but those efforts have not gained traction with congressional leadership. Under Minnesota law, holders of lower-potency hemp edible licenses can sell products containing up to 5 milligrams of THC per serving, with a maximum of 50 milligrams of THC per package. Beverages can have a maximum of up to 10 milligrams of THC per container. THC drink brands that were included in Target’s initial launch included Birdie, Cann, Find Wunder, Gigli, Hi Seltzer, Indeed, Señorita, Stigma, Surly, Trail Magic, Wyld and Wynk. It’s not clear whether Target’s involvement in the hemp market at a greater number of its stores with the new licenses will stay focused on the beverage category or if it will involve other kinds of products, and representatives for the company did not immediately respond to Marijuana Moment’s request for comment. A poll from the cannabis telehealth platform NuggMD last year found that marijuana consumers were encouraged by Target’s decision to start selling THC beverages—with a majority saying the marketing move makes them more likely to shop at the retail giant’s stores. Respondents were asked: “Does knowing this make you more likely to shop at Target in the future?” A total of 50.5 percent said they would be more likely—though that notably includes 34.4 percent who said they’d only be more inclined to patronize Target if their local store carried the THC beverages. Another 16.1 percent said “yes” because they “want to support the retailer more now regardless of which locations sell the products.” About half of respondents (49.5 percent) said Target’s embrace of a THC drink pilot program wouldn’t affect where they shop. Here’s a full list of Target’s new hemp licenses in Minnesota: License Number License Type Legal Business Name Retail Site Address License Issued License Expiration LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1001 S 13th Street, Virginia, MN 55792 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 111 Pioneer Trail, Chaska, MN 55318 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 11990 N Business Park Boulevard, Champlin, MN 55316 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 125 SE Lincoln Avenue, Saint Cloud, MN 56304 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1300 NE MN-55 Highway, Buffalo, MN 55313 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1300 W University Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 13201 Ridgedale Drive, Minnetonka, MN 55305 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1329 SE 5th Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1370 S MN-15, Hutchinson, MN 55350 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 14333 MN-13, Savage, MN 55378 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1447 E 7th Street, Monticello, MN 55362 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 14546 N Dellwood Drive, Baxter, MN 56425 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1500 NE 109th Avenue, Blaine, MN 55449 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 151 Tyler Road, Red Wing, MN 55066 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1515 W County Road B, Roseville, MN 55113 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 15150 Cedar Avenue, Apple Valley, MN 55124 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 15300 N Grove Circle, Maple Grove, MN 55369 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 15560 Pilot Knob Road, Apple Valley, MN 55124 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 15800 NE 87th Street, Otsego, MN 55330 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1650 New Brighton Boulevard, Minneapolis, MN 55413 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1685 E 17th Avenue, Shakopee, MN 55379 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1744 Suburban Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55106 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1750 S Robert Street, West St. Paul, MN 55117 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 18275 Kenrick Avenue, Lakeville, MN 55044 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1850 Adams Street, Mankato, MN 56001 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 1902 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, MN 55811 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2000 Cliff Lake Road, Eagan, MN 55122 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2000 NW Bunker Lake Boulevard, Andover, MN 55304 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2021 Market Drive, Stillwater, MN 55082 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2080 Ford Parkway, Saint Paul, MN 55116 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2100 NW Paul Bunyan Drive, Bemidji, MN 56601 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 215 N Balsam Street, Cambridge, MN 55008 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 21615 S Diamond Lake Road, Rogers, MN 55374 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2199 E MN-36, North Saint Paul, MN 55109 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2323 S MN-3, Northfield, MN 55057 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2410 S Pokegama Avenue, Grand Rapids, MN 55744 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2500 E Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN 55406 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2505 S 1st Street Willmar, MN 56201 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 2555 W 79th Street, Bloomington, MN 55431 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 300 Clydesdale Trail, Medina, MN 55340 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 301 Park Drive, Owatonna, MN 55060 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 3300 NW 124th Avenue, Coon Rapids, MN 55433 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 3301 E US-10 Highway, Moorhead, MN 56560 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 356 SW 12th Street, Forest Lake, MN 55025 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 3601 MN-100, Minneapolis, MN 55416 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 3800 N Lexington Avenue, Shoreview, MN 55126 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 3827 NW Marketplace Drive, Rochester, MN 55901 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 4175 N Vinewood Lane, Plymouth, MN 55442 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 4201 W Division Street, Saint Cloud, MN 56301 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 4404 S MN-29 Highway, Alexandria, MN 56308 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 449 Commerce Drive, Woodbury, MN 55125 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 4611 SE Maine Avenue, Rochester, MN 55904 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 4848 County Road 101, Minnetonka, MN 55345 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 5537 W Broadway Avenue, Crystal, MN 55428 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 6445 Richfield Parkway, Richfield, MN 55423 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 7000 S York Avenue, Edina, MN 55435 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 7200 Valley Creek Plaza, Woodbury, MN 55125 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 749 Apollo Drive, Lino Lakes, MN 55014 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 7535 W Broadway Avenue, Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 755 NE 53rd Avenue, Fridley, MN 55421 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 7841 Amana Trail, Inver Grove Heights, MN 55077 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 7900 N 32nd Street, Oakdale, MN 55128 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 810 W County Road 42, Burnsville, MN 55337 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 8225 Flying Cloud Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55344 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 851 W 78th Street, Chanhassen, MN 55317 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 860 Mankato Avenue, Winona, MN 55987 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 8600 NW Springbrook Drive, Coon Rapids, MN 55433 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 8655 E Point Douglas Road S, Cottage Grove, MN 55016 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 875 E Main Street, Waconia, MN 55387 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 8900 MN-7, St. Louis Park, MN 55426 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 900 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 LPDIS-L25-000423 LPHE Retailer Target Corporation 975 County Road E, Vadnais Heights, MN 55127 4/1/2026 4/1/2027 Target’s new license expansion was first reported by Brewbound. In Minnesota in particular, hemp beverages have been a mainstay even before the state moved to legalize marijuana for adult use. Gov. Tim Walz (D) signed legislation in 2022 making it so all hemp-derived cannabinoids including CBD could be legally sold in food items, beverages, topicals and more—as long as the products contain less than the federal limit of 0.3 percent THC. Edible and beverage products are limited to a total of 5 mg THC per serving and 50 mg per package. About a year later, former Minnesota House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler (DFL), who championed the state’s legalization law over multiple sessions, announced plans to launch his own hemp beverage company. The mainstreaming of cannabis beverages comes as recent poll shows that a majority of Americans believe marijuana represents a “healthier option” than alcohol—and that most also expect cannabis to be legal in all 50 states within the next five years. Another survey found that four in five adults who drink cannabis-infused beverages say they’ve reduced their alcohol intake—and more than a fifth have quit drinking alcohol altogether. Target isn’t alone in joining the cannabis train as state laws continue to evolve. Home Depot, one of the largest employers in the United States, last year shifted its employee drug testing policies to remove cannabis from screening panels entirely and stop pre-employment drug testing of most of its workers, according to a document obtained by Marijuana Moment. In 2022, Amazon, the second largest private employer in the U.S., also backed a Republican-led bill to federally legalize, tax and regulate marijuana. It previously expressed support for a separate, Democratic-led legalization bill. Amazon has also worked to adapt to changing marijuana policies internally as it’s backed congressional reform, enacting an employment policy change in 2021 to end drug testing for cannabis for most workers, for example. Meanwhile, Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) of the United States recently entered a first-of-its-kind partnership with a hemp THC beverage company, with a licensing branding deal that will support a variety of veterans services and promote cannabis drinks as a potential alcohol alternative with the drinks being available at VFW posts across the country. Separately, while Target is apparently moving into the THC drink space, the airline Virgin Atlantic denied satirical and false claims earlier this year from a cannabis beverage company about a deal to sell its THC-infused beverages on flights. The post Target Expands Involvement In Hemp THC Drinks Market With 72 New Licenses In Minnesota appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

We offer premium Ashram Escort options with a focus on professionalism and easy booking. Our Escort Service Ashram platform is built to provide verified profiles and quick responses. Clients can connect without delays and enjoy a hassle-free experience. Ashram Escort services through our agency ensure proper support, privacy, and smooth interaction, making the entire process comfortable and reliable for anyone looking for trusted options.

Pune Escorts Russian Escorts In Pune Escorts in Hinjewadi Escorts in Viman Nagar Escorts in Koregaon Park Escorts in Shivaji Nagar Escorts in Yerwada Escorts in Pimpri Chinchwad Escorts in Kalyani Nagar Escorts in Magarpatta Air Hostess Escorts in Pune Housewife Escorts in Pune

Federal health officials are asking a court to dismiss marijuana legalization opponents’ lawsuit challenging a new Trump administration initiative to cover up to $500 worth of hemp-derived products each year for eligible Medicare patients. The program being implemented by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) focuses largely on CBD but also allows a certain amount of THC in products. Lawyers for Health and Human Services Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Director Mehmet Oz filed a brief on Thursday saying that the anti-cannabis organizations that filed the suit against the Medicare hemp coverage policy do not have standing to bring the case. The prohibitionist groups, led by Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM), are “are unregulated parties in every sense” and CMS has “not required them to do or refrain from doing anything,” the government brief says, arguing that the plaintiffs have not actually been harmed by the policy. Beyond the advocacy organizations, the case’s sole individual plaintiff is anti-marijuana lawyer David Evans, who claims he has standing to challenge the new Substance Access Beneficiary Engagement Incentive (BEI) as a Medicare recipient—but the federal agencies reject that argument. “Mr. Evans opposes hemp products and will not use them. He says so himself,” the brief says. “No one will force Mr. Evans to consume a hemp product. No one will force his provider to offer him one. His alleged injury is thus not that the [Medicare hemp program] will cause him any physical, monetary, or regulatory harm. His alleged injury is that he might be offered a product he will decline. That is not an Article III injury. It is an offense to his sensibilities.” “Plaintiffs are anti-cannabis advocacy organizations and one Medicare beneficiary. None participates in any Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) Innovation Center, also known as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“CMMI”), model. None administers the program they challenge. None faces any regulatory obligation from CMS. Their complaint is that CMS announced a voluntary component of existing models allowing willing providers to consult with consenting beneficiaries about eligible hemp products—and they object to it. Under [Supreme Court precedent], objection is not injury. The individual Plaintiff, David Evans, receives care from an ACO REACH participant. He opposes hemp products and says he would never use them. His claimed injury is that his provider might someday elect a voluntary program, might someday offer him a product, and he might be upset. That chain of contingencies is not Article III standing. It is speculation about the independent choices of third parties who are not before this Court.” The government also rejects the groups’ claims that they have standing to sue because are being forced to waste resources opposing the Medicare hemp initiative that they would otherwise allocate toward fighting reforms like marijuana legalization and federal rescheduling. “Every organizational Plaintiff exists to oppose cannabis access. The BEI did not divert these organizations from some unrelated core activity. It gave them exactly the kind of government action they exist to oppose,” the federal brief says. “Their expenditure of resources to oppose it is the execution of their organizational missions, not a diversion from them.” “SAM’s own filings confirm the point. SAM attaches as Exhibit A (ECF No. 4-1) to Plaintiffs’ motion its participation in the ongoing DEA marijuana rescheduling proceedings and alleges in the Complaint that the BEI has ‘rendered essentially moot’ its expenditure of resources opposing rescheduling because the BEI ‘provides marijuana products via a medical source.’ This argument fails twice. For starters, the BEI does not provide marijuana products but concerns hemp products. Hemp is not marijuana. Equally important, even accepting SAM’s mischaracterization, its argument is that a separate government action under separate statutory authority has made SAM’s advocacy in a different proceeding less effective. That is not Article III injury. It is a complaint that law and policy landscape has shifted in a direction SAM dislikes.” Aside from the question of standing, the federal agencies say the anti-marijuana groups’ argument fails on the merits, citing statute that specifiies Medicare test models are not subject to administrative or judicial review. The plaintiffs also err, the government says, by conflating their concerns about illegal marijuana with legal hemp. “Congress drew a bright statutory line between hemp and marijuana in the 2018 Farm Bill. Hemp is not a controlled substance. It is not illegal under federal law,” the brief says. “There is no inconsistency, no reversal, and no unexplained departure. There is a legal distinction that Congress enacted that Plaintiffs fail to acknowledge.” Additionally, the groups’ claim that CMS failed to conduct proper rulemaking and accept public comments before launching the program also fails, the brief says, because it is “not a legislative rule but an optional component of voluntary participation agreements that has been implemented the same way CMMI has implemented every voluntary model for sixteen years.” “CMS has added, modified, and removed model components throughout CMMI’s sixteen-year history,” the government said. “It has never conducted notice-and-comment rulemaking for any voluntary model component.” Judge Trevor N. McFadden late last month rejected the plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order to halt the program from launching on April 1. The government’s motion to dismiss the case comes as the groups challenging the Medicare hemp program are seeking to add new plaintiffs to the case: cannabis-focused biopharmaceutical corporation MMJ International Holdings and its two subsidiaries, MMJ BioPharma Labs, Inc. and MMJ BioPharma Cultivation, Inc. While the federal health agencies don’t oppose the expanded plaintiff pool, they do object in a separate filing to the prohibitionist groups’ request to push back scheduled filing dates and a hearing on a motion for a preliminary injunction that is current scheduled for April 20. They also imply that SAM and the other anti-marijuana groups are seeking to add MMJ to the case in a “futile and misleading effort to cure” their own lack of standing to bring the complaint. The government also says that MMJ itself “cannot show irreparable harm” from the Medicare hemp program. “MMJ’s claimed injuries—decreased investor confidence, competitive disadvantage, impaired future earnings—are speculative projections about a market MMJ has not entered (and will not enter for years), based on products MMJ has not developed, contingent on authorizations MMJ has not obtained,” the federal brief says. Notably, the government’s motion to dismiss says it was prepared in part by Matthew Zorn, a lawyer for HHS who before taking on the federal job led numerous cases suing government agencies on behalf of plaintiffs seeking marijuana and drug policy reform. The CMS initiative comes after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in December calling on the attorney general to finalize a rule federally rescheduling marijuana that also contained components to “improve access” to full-spectrum CBD products. Under the program, inhalable preparations are not allowed, and products can contain no more than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC by dry weight and can have up to 3 milligrams of total THC per serving. The THC limit could potentially change if a law the president signed late last year takes effect as scheduled this November. That policy would strictly limit the types of cannabis products that are currently permitted under the 2018 Farm Bill that Trump signed in his first term, expressly prohibiting hemp derivatives containing more than 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container. The federal agencies note in their new brief that “CMS does not pay for hemp products under the BEI.” “The participating provider furnishes eligible products at its own cost, subject to the $500 annual cap per beneficiary. The BEI operates within the shared-savings framework that defines the underlying models. If a provider’s investment in beneficiary engagement reduces the beneficiary’s total cost of care, the provider and CMS share in the resulting savings. If it does not, the provider absorbs the loss. No new federal appropriation is involved. No new entitlement is created. The BEI is, at its core, a decision by willing providers that a particular intervention can reduce downstream claims.” Meanwhile, the White House Office of Management and Budget recently held a series of meetings about a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) CBD products enforcement policy. FDA also issued guidance making clear that it does not intend to interfere with implementation of the Medicare hemp-derived products coverage plan. CMS separately finalized a rule that will allow coverage of some hemp products as specialized, non-primarily health-related benefits through Medicare Advantage plans. Read recent filings in the Medicare hemp program lawsuit below: The post RFK And Dr. Oz Want Anti-Marijuana Groups’ Lawsuit Challenging Medicare Hemp Coverage Program Dismissed appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

Everyone wants to spend time with someone who understands them, and our Escorts Patparganj are perfect for that. They are friendly, modern, and know how to keep you relaxed. You can book easily and enjoy your time without pressure. Everything is handled in a smooth and simple way.

OR gov signs medical marijuana in hospices bill; HI Senate pushes federal legalization; Poll: Americans support cannabis homegrow; Hemp industry op-ed 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. Get our daily newsletter. Email address: Leave this field empty if you're human: 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. Support our work at https://www.patreon.com/marijuanamoment / TOP THINGS TO KNOW A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order preventing the enforcement of new state rules restricting access to hemp-derived products such as smokable THCA flower. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek (D) signed a bill to allow patients to use medical cannabis in hospices and other healthcare facilities. The Hawaii Senate passed resolutions calling on Congress to federally legalize marijuana, support state efforts to clear people’s conviction records and take steps to facilitate access to banking services for companies in the cannabis industry. A new poll shows that three out of five Americans support legalizing home cultivation of marijuana amid broad concerns among cannabis consumers about harmful pesticides in the products they consume. Max Jackson of Cannabis Wise Guys argues in a new Marijuana Moment op-ed that “the hemp industry killed itself” by pushing highly potent products via a “loophole” in the law and has no one else to blame for new restrictions being enacted at the federal and state levels. A federal judge blocked the Rhode Island Cannabis Control Commission from proceeding with a lottery to award additional marijuana business licenses amid a legal challenge to residency rules, and a lawmaker said legislation is needed “to remedy this.” An Illinois court held a hearing in the final lawsuit challenging how regulators awarded marijuana social equity business licenses in a lottery, with a company saying its chances were unfairly diluted by the inclusion of ineligible applicants. The Cleveland, Ohio City Council is considering a proposal to allow its members to spend part of the city’s marijuana tax money directly on neighborhood projects in their districts. / FEDERAL The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a bulletin about severe illness associated with eating mushroom-containing chocolate products, saying, “consumers should be aware that microdosing psychedelic products can cause severe illness or death and that recalled products should not be sold, purchased, or eaten.” The House bill to designate psychedelic therapy centers of excellence got one new cosponsor for a total of 26. / STATES Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) spoke about the state’s investment of marijuana revenue in programs to address social inequities. Oklahoma’s attorney general tweeted, “When I took office, more than 9,000 licensed marijuana grow operations were in Oklahoma. Now, fewer than 1,200 remain. Our state is safer thanks to my unwavering commitment to end the stranglehold of Chinese syndicated crime organizations.” A Texas representative criticized recently enacted hemp product restrictions. The Missouri Court of Appeals rejected a request to transfer a marijuana business licensing case to the state Supreme Court. Alabama regulators said they expect the state’s first medical cannabis dispensary to open next month. Ohio’s top cannabis regulator discussed newly implemented restrictions on hemp products. Michigan regulators filed a complaint against a marijuana business over alleged violations. California regulators will hold a hearing on proposed changes to cannabis packaging rules on Tuesday. The Nevada Cannabis Advisory Commission’s Taxation Subcommittee will meet on Tuesday. — Marijuana Moment is tracking hundreds of cannabis, psychedelics and drug policy bills in state legislatures and Congress this year. Patreon supporters pledging at least $25/month get access to our interactive maps, charts and hearing calendar so they don’t miss any developments. Learn more about our marijuana bill tracker and become a supporter on Patreon to get access. — / LOCAL The San Diego County, California Planning Commission approved a proposal to allow new cannabis businesses in unincorporated areas. / INTERNATIONAL The Sint Maarten Parliament Committee for Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry held a hearing on cannabis legalization legislation. / SCIENCE & HEALTH A review concluded that “cannabinoids, particularly CBD, showed promising results in managing symptoms such as pain and spasticity,” highlighting “the broad therapeutic potential of cannabinoids in neurology, with promising results in symptom management for conditions like Multiple Sclerosis and Fibromyalgia.” A study found that U.S. law enforcement and military personnel “showed significantly less positive attitudes toward psychedelics and psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy than the general public.” / BUSINESS Green Thumb Industries Inc. published a social impact report. / CULTURE Football player Markquese Bell was arrested for possessing marijuana. Make sure to subscribe to get Marijuana Moment’s daily dispatch in your inbox. Get our daily newsletter. Email address: Leave this field empty if you're human: Photo courtesy of Chris Wallis // Side Pocket Images. The post Texas hemp product ban paused by judge (Newsletter: April 13, 2026) appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

Modern lifestyle and a good social culture has made Bangalore the Silicon Valley of India and that too with luxury and bespoke services. Bangalore is known for its adult-indulgent crowd, and amongst these Russian escorts In Bangalore have become a center of attraction owing to their gracefulness, confidence and international appeal The city’s cosmopolitan atmosphere and increasing flow of global visitors also play a role in the growing demand for such companionship services. Bangalore Escorts Escorts In Indiranagar

“We just want a fair shot. We’re not asking for anything special, no special privileges, but what they promised from the very beginning.” By Hannah Meisel, Capitol News Illinois Nearly seven years after Illinois lawmakers approved recreational cannabis legalization, applicants who lost out on coveted business licenses are still battling the state in court, alleging the law’s rollout undermined its purported equity goals. At the time of its passage in 2019, supporters of Illinois’s landmark law touted it as the most equity-centric legalized cannabis program in the nation. But one of the centerpieces of that legislation—setting aside the majority of cannabis business licenses for “social equity” applicants disproportionately affected by the War on Drugs—proved more complicated than the law’s authors had imagined, setting off years of litigation over the process. The final lawsuit of dozens filed following the first cannabis licensing lottery in 2020 finally got its day in court last week, marking the conclusion of a yearslong legal saga testing the state’s legalization policy. But it’s also the last chance for the plaintiff, Well-Being Holistic Group, to have an opportunity for a dispensary license after all four of its applications lost in three lotteries. “We just want a fair shot,” the Rev. Otis Davis, said after a hearing in the case. “We’re not asking for anything special, no special privileges, but what they promised from the very beginning… So we just saying, ‘Hey, that the system is broken, then they should redo it, and they should give everybody a chance.’” Davis preaches at Repairers of the Breach Ministries in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood and unsuccessfully ran for Chicago City Council in 2019. He was part of the team that applied for dispensary licenses as Well-Being Holistic Group in 2020. Chris Harris, an attorney who’d represented Davis, teamed up with his client along with Harris’ friend and business partner David Roberts to submit the applications. Harris was blunt in his assessment of Davis’s value to the team: “Otis being a veteran, Otis being a practicing minister on the South Side of Chicago coming from a disproportionately impacted area—we had what we thought was a perfect team, and a team that was designed to win this type of license.” In fact, Well-Being Holistic Group’s applications received perfect scores, but still didn’t win a license. While most lawsuits filed against the state after the lottery process were from applicants who disputed their scores for a chance to be included in the lottery, Well-Being’s case argues a different legal theory, which attorney Chris Carmichael of Henderson Parks said is the “most difficult path” of all the lawsuits. Plaintiff alleges lotteries were rigged Well-Being argues that the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which operated the lotteries, improperly allowed roughly 450 ineligible entries into a lottery of 901 applicants for dispensary licenses in the Chicago region. That, Well-Being argues, nearly doubled the size of the pool and reduced others’ chances of winning. Well-Being alleges the entries should have been flagged as ineligible because corporate dispensaries that already had a footprint in Illinois’s medical cannabis market had their fingerprints on applications for social equity dispensary licenses. In one case, Carmichael said a company paid for roughly $500,000 in application fees—something IDFPR and the consultants hired to vet applicants and conduct the lotteries should have caught, as the “remitter” line on those cashier’s checks contained the name of the company. IDFPR maintains it did its due diligence by checking out the individuals named as principal officers on the license applications, which the agency argues would have caught any attempts to flout application limits or hide true ownership of the entity behind an application. But Well-Being argues vetting only individuals missed the forest for the trees, causing IDFPR to overlook dozens of applications having the same corporate sponsorship. Alex Moe, a lawyer from the Illinois Attorney General’s office, told Cook County Judge Patrick Stanton that Well-Being was “missing that consultants were expected” to take part in the application process. There were no rules against those consultants paying for application fees either, he said, unless consultants had undisclosed financial interest in the entity applying for licenses. Further, Moe said Well-Being’s theory of mathematical unfairness in the lotteries is fundamentally incorrect. “Even if Well-Being is correct and half the applicants should not have been in there, it doesn’t change the outcome,” he said. By following the “paper trail” created by the lottery, Moe said IDFPR recalculated what would have happened if the applications Well-Being allege should’ve been marked ineligible weren’t in the pool. Well-Being would have placed 126th out of 450, he said. “That’s something we know with mathematical certainty—that Well-Being would not have received a winning drawing,” Moe said. Corrective lottery? But Carmichael pointed out that since the state has social equity cannabis dispensary licenses going unused, “the only possible meaningful thing to do is to run a corrective lottery.” The state already ran corrective lotteries after initial litigation held up the license awarding process for a year. The first dispensaries owned by social equity license holders didn’t open until November 2022—nearly three years after the application process opened. As of January, only 64 percent of licensed social equity dispensaries were operational, according to an analysis by The Chicago Reporter. Stanton, who pointed out multiple times during the hearing that IDFPR had wide latitude over interpreting state statute, said he understood Well-Being’s claims but seemed skeptical of its arguments that a court should step in and tell a state agency how to do its job. “It sounds to me like…there was some vetting done before the lottery. Maybe not the level of vetting you think should’ve been done,” he told Carmichael. “You’re saying they didn’t do enough. And I feel like, ‘Okay, that’s sort of the decision of the department.’” The judge said he would need more proof that IDFPR “didn’t follow statute” in order for judicial review to be warranted. “They did something,” Stanton said of IDFPR. “Perhaps not enough. Applying the standards they did, it seems to me they caught what they should’ve caught.” The judge is set to rule at a May 21 hearing. This article first appeared on Capitol News Illinois and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. Photo elements courtesy of rawpixel and Philip Steffan. The post Illinois Court Hears Final Lawsuit Challenging Marijuana Social Equity Business Licensing Lottery appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

I admire this article for the well-researched content and excellent wording. I got so involved in this material that I couldn’t stop reading. I am impressed with your work and skill. Thank you so much. bandar togel online

what an inspiring story! love that a woman-owned family farm is bringing creativity and gaming culture to the cannabis space - that's exactly the kind of innovation the industry needs. also checking out scritchy scratchy for my cat supplies.

This is my first visit to your web journal! We are a group of volunteers and new activities in the same specialty. Website gave us helpful data to work. Becak4d

“Knowing the Act was facing legal challenges…CCC continued forward with its plan to implement the Act and its licensing scheme. The resulting fall-out will be, to be blunt, self-inflicted.” By Christopher Shea, Rhode Island Currant Nearly 100 applicants vying for 20 new cannabis retail licenses that were supposed to be awarded via lottery as soon as May remain in limbo after a federal judge’s order this week put the plan on pause. U.S. District Court Judge Melissa DuBose on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction against the Rhode Island Cannabis Control Commission. The commission is the defendant in three federal lawsuits filed by out-of-state entrepreneurs over the state’s residency requirement for retail licenses. DuBose’s order blocks regulators from holding a license lottery or even continuing to screen and review any of the retail license applications submitted to the commission by the December 29, 2025, deadline. “It’s very disheartening right now,” Jason Calderon, a cultivator who applied for a retail license in North Kingstown, said in an interview. “This most certainly could have been avoided. All we’ve done now is give more time to the existing monopolies to be a monopoly.” Charon Rose, spokesperson for the commission, on Friday said regulators were aware of the ruling and were reviewing implications for the adult-use retail licensing program. “At this time, the commission is not in a position to provide a definitive timeline,” she said in an email to Rhode Island Current. “Additional guidance will be provided as it becomes available.” The legal challenges began in May 2024, when California cannabis entrepreneur Justyna Jensen sued the Cannabis Control Commission in U.S. District Court in Providence, arguing Rhode Island’s residency requirement for licenses under the state’s 2022 Cannabis Act violated interstate commerce protections. Jensen had filed similar lawsuits in other states, including California and New York. Jensen in her initial lawsuit stated she has planned to be a majority owner of a social equity business, a specialty license reserved for those adversely affected by the war on drugs. John Kenney, a Florida resident, filed a second federal lawsuit against the Cannabis Control Commission in May 2024 also objecting to the residency requirement. Justin Palmore of California filed a third lawsuit on similar grounds on Nov. 24, 2025. None of the plaintiffs were among the 97 businesses vying for a license in Rhode Island following the state’s call for applications late last year. Passed by state lawmakers in 2022, the Rhode Island Cannabis Act called for 24 new retail stores around the state—with six licenses reserved for social equity applicants and another six for worker-owned cooperative stores. Not every license type received an application in each of the six geographic zones, which left regulators with a maximum of 20 licenses to issue across the state. Out-of-state investors and ownership are allowed under the law, but the majority of a cannabis company—51 percenr—must be owned by a Rhode Island resident. DuBose dismissed Jensen and Kenney’s suits in February 2025, finding the complaints were premature since state regulators had not yet finalized the rules governing Rhode Island’s retail licenses. Regulations were enacted in May last year. But the cases were revived last November by the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, which directed DuBose to issue rulings on their merits at least 45 days before the date that the Cannabis Control Commission intended to issue retail licenses. The timeline set by the commission in October projected licenses would be awarded in the second quarter of 2026, as early as May. Did state squander its time? The state argued in its legal filings that the residency requirement allows regulators to have meaningful authority, jurisdiction and oversight over all retail license holders. But DuBose ultimately found Rhode Island’s residency requirement was not narrowly tailored to advance valid state interests. She also found the plaintiffs would face irreparable harm because the commission admitted it would not allow additional licenses beyond the 24 allowed under state law. The state also tried to make the case that the plaintiffs were given consideration at the 11th hour of getting licenses out. DuBose contended the state had plenty of time to make changes to its rules. “Knowing the Act was facing legal challenges in this Court, the CCC continued forward with its plan to implement the Act and its licensing scheme,” DuBose wrote. “The resulting fall-out will be, to be blunt, self-inflicted.” It’s that very line that has attorney Allan Fung, the former Republican Cranston mayor and congressional and gubernatorial candidate who represents several retail applicants, wondering why the state didn’t act sooner to avoid the license freeze. “It’s frustrating that the state didn’t fix the statute and settle these issues earlier on, or find a compromise with these three plaintiffs, before people put their life savings on the line,” Fung said in a text message to Rhode Island Current. “The industry can’t afford to wait even longer.” It’s certainly been a slow license rollout for prospective cannabis retailers. Over a year passed after the state legalized recreational cannabis before the three-member commission tasked with regulating the industry was impaneled in June 2023. The commission needed to hire staff to draft proposals and conduct a review of rules adopted in other states. Rules governing Rhode Island’s retail cannabis were finally adopted in May 2025. Chairperson Kim Ahern stepped down last October to run for attorney general, and Gov. Dan McKee (D) has yet to nominate a successor. In recent months, the two remaining commissioners considered further slowing the process by staggering the lottery for the 20 licenses instead of awarding them all at once. No final decision was ever made during the panel’s most recent meeting on March 13. “The whole time it’s always been something,” Calderon said. “Now it’s this new hurdle.” That hurdle comes as many applicants have been paying rent on their storefronts for months while waiting to see if they will be selected for a license lottery. “My extremely frustrated clients have invested tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to follow an intricate set of rules at both the state and local levels, only to have the rug pulled out from underneath them at the eleventh hour,” Fung said. Calderon is a bit better off financially since he said the deal in place for his proposed shop in North Kingstown doesn’t require rent payments until June. “Obviously that’s going to come and go without any store,” he said. “Most likely I’m going to lose the location because I’m not going to be able to cover and hold it while the state figures out what their next plan is going to be.” Regulations require that each application have a premises secured, including zoning approvals from the city or town where the store is to be located. They’re rules that were lauded by Andre Dev, founder of the Community Cannabis Network of Rhode Island, which acts as an incubator for many of the prospective worker cooperatives. “Many other states only require a fee and you don’t have to have your business ready,” he said in an interview. “Most of those applicants have not been able to open doors because there was no testing for readiness.” Dev commended applicants for being able to get those approvals on time after a three-month application window, which is why he was dismayed by the court siding with plaintiffs who never even applied in Rhode Island. “Somehow their rights are more important than us who put in the time and effort to get all this done,” Dev said. “It is incumbent on the commission to fix this in a way that creates the least harm for people.” DuBose suggested in her ruling the state could refund any applicants who decide the wait is no longer worth it or even transfer current applications to a hypothetical new process. Both the chambers of the Rhode Island General Assembly have pending bills to remove the residency requirement. Legislation sponsored by Rep. Scott Slater, a Providence Democrat, was heard by the House Committee on Corporations on March 12 where it was held for further study—a standard practice upon a bill’s first review. “It’s clear that we’re going to have to pass something to remedy this,” Slater said in an interview. “We need to make sure this doesn’t get held up again. We definitely need more stores open.” Dev called on the commission to publish emergency regulations within 30 days removing the enjoined language and establishing interim application procedures consistent with the court’s ruling, noting the state’s cannabis act declares all provisions severable. “They have the power to deal with this,” he said. The Cannabis Control Commission is scheduled to meet at 2 p.m. Friday, April 17. This story was first published by Rhode Island Currant. The post Rhode Island Marijuana Business License Lottery Blocked By Federal Judge Amid Challenge To Residency Rules appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

“Legalization created opportunity. This ordinance ensures that this opportunity is shared, shared fairly, shared transparently and shared with the residents who made it possible.” By Nick Castele, Signal Cleveland This story was originally published by Signal Cleveland. Sign up for their free newsletters at SignalCleveland.org/subscribe. Cleveland City Council members should be able to spend part of the city’s marijuana tax money directly on neighborhood projects, Ward 5’s Richard Starr said on Monday. Starr introduced legislation this week to send half of Cleveland’s marijuana revenue to council members’ discretionary spending accounts, known as neighborhood equity funds. Members have used their discretionary money to upgrade city parks, buy police fitness equipment and purchase food and grocery store gift cards for residents. The Cleveland voters who helped to legalize recreational marijuana in 2023 ought to see that money come back to their communities, Starr argued at this week’s council meeting. “The question before us today is simple. Who benefits?” he said. “This ordinance answers that question clearly: the people, the neighborhoods, every ward in the city.” Cleveland’s marijuana tax collections are relatively modest and go to the city’s General Fund, which pays for basic city services. Since the state first began collecting the 10 percent tax on dispensary sales in 2024, the city has received $919,338, according to state data. The total that went to Cleveland in 2025 was $650,249. If half of that were split among the city’s 15 wards as under Starr’s proposal, each council member would receive another $21,675 in discretionary money. Last year, council distributed $600,000 to each member’s neighborhood equity fund. This year’s budget deal added $300,000 per ward. Bibb Not Ready To Take A Position Mayor Justin Bibb’s administration needs more time to review the legislation before weighing in on it, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office said. Currently marijuana revenue goes to the city’s General Fund, which pays for basic city services. Starr ran into opposition from the mayor’s administration three years ago when he proposed expanding council’s share of a different source of discretionary dollars: casino tax revenue. Council receives 15 percent of Cleveland’s casino taxes. Starr had wanted to expand that to 50 percent. At the time, the city’s finance director argued the change would open a hole in the budget, while council members complained that City Hall took too long to spend casino dollars they had directed to ward projects. Since then, council has updated the spending rules. Starr said on Monday night that his marijuana tax legislation was about sharing governance, not taking away from the mayor’s administration. He asked his colleagues to support the idea. “Legalization created opportunity,” he said. “This ordinance ensures that this opportunity is shared, shared fairly, shared transparently and shared with the residents who made it possible.” Cleveland’s marijuana tax allocation was the least of Ohio’s “three Cs” big cities. Columbus received $5.5 million and Cincinnati nearly $3 million. Both cities host more dispensaries than Cleveland does. The post Cleveland City Council Proposal Would Use Marijuana Tax Money To Support Neighborhood Projects appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

Our Noida Call Girl Service are always able to provide premium quality and exceptional Escort Service. They all have the most beautiful/fit bodies imaginable, and they all are stylishly dressed, and they absolutely know how to make every moment you spend with them an exceptional one. To give you the quickest access to those desired companions, our agency will book you immediately, and only if you hurry.

An Karol Bagh Escorts Service helped me to learn how to dance bachata in my living room. She was tolerant, humorous and never laughed when I stepped on her feet. After two hours, I was able to do something new and to have a huge smile. That much better than another night on the couch.

Thanks for another wonderful post. Where else could anybody get that type of info in such an ideal way of writing? result macau

Thanks for posting this info. I just want to let you know that I just check out your site and I find it very interesting and informative. I can't wait to read lots of your posts. result macau

Really a great addition. I have read this marvelous post. Thanks for sharing information about it. I really like that. Thanks so lot for your convene. toto macau

A Texas judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing the enforcement of new state rules restricting access to hemp-derived products such as smokable THCA flower. The ruling on Friday comes in a lawsuit brought by a coalition of hemp industry leaders and advocacy organizations that claim the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) illegally bypassed lawmakers to effectively ban the sale and manufacture of certain consumable hemp products. The order from District Court of Travis County Judge Guerra Gamble pauses the new hemp product restrictions for 14 days while the broader legal dispute is considered. “This lawsuit is really based on a constitutional separation powers issue,” Jason Snell, an attorney for the plaintiffs, including the Texas Hemp Business Council (THBC) and Hemp Industry & Farmers of America (HIFA), said during a hearing on Friday, characterizing the new restrictions enacted by regulators as “illegal rules.” “Here we are today, with the regulators attempting to do what the legislators could not and did not do, and that’s illegal,” he said. “What the legislature refuses to enact cannot be imposed through rulemaking. The rule-makers cannot overstep their authority and enact rules that are more restrictive than what the legislators have enacted.” “Thousands of people lose their products, their lifetime investments, their businesses, their jobs, everything they poured their heart and soul into,” Snell said. “Those are already going away and could be gone forever unless this illegal regulatory framework is stopped.” Zachary Berg, a lawyer for the state, suggested during the hearing that the new rules are needed to comply with a federal law that is set to redefine legal hemp under a restrictive new definition beginning in November. Under state law as approved by the legislature and governor in 2019, the suit says, cannabis products are legal if they contain a delta-9 THC concentration of not more than 0.3 percent. But regulators at DSHS and HHSC recently adopted a “total delta-9 THC” limit using a post-decarboxylation formula that includes tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA) in the calculation. Texas lawmakers did pass legislation to severely restrict hemp products in the 2025 session, but it was vetoed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and not enacted into law. The hemp industry lawsuit, which also lists Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) as a defendant, additionally challenges large increases in business licensing fees that regulators adopted. Under the new rules, the cost for a manufacturer license increased from $250 to $10,000 per facility, while the fee for retailer registration jumped from $150 to $5,000 per location. The judge on Friday did not grant a restraining order on the new fees, however. “These measures do not implement the Legislature’s policy choices; they replace them,” the industry complaint says. “And they do so against the backdrop of a constitutional lawmaking process that ran its full course—from legislative passage of Senate Bill 3 through gubernatorial veto, through two failed special sessions—and produced an unambiguous result: no new law. Texas law does not permit agencies to override that result through rulemaking.” “Texas has long promoted itself as a national leader in economic growth and regulatory stability. It is a state committed to fostering innovation, supporting lawful enterprise, and maintaining a predictable legal environment in which businesses can operate and invest,” it says. “Consistent with that approach, Texas has chosen to permit and regulate the manufacture, distribution, and sale of consumable hemp products (“CHPs”) through a comprehensive statutory framework enacted by the Legislature in 2019. “Plaintiffs support that framework and the State’s interest in ensuring that CHPs are produced and sold safely, responsibly, and in compliance with law,” the suit says. In addition to the immediate temporary restraining order to block enforcement of the new rules, plaintiffs are asking for temporary and permanent injunctive relief. A hearing on the motion for a temporary injunction is scheduled for April 23. Separately, Texas officials recently conditionally approved more new medical marijuana business licenses as part of a law that’s being implemented to significantly expand the state’s cannabis program. Last month, Texas voters approved a marijuana legalization question that appeared on the state’s Democratic primary ballot. A statewide poll released in February found that Texas voters don’t like how state leaders and lawmakers have handled marijuana and THC policy issues. In the survey, a plurality of voters (40 percent) said they disapprove of how their elected officials have approached the issue, according to the survey. Just 29 percent said they approve of how cannabis issues have been handled, while 31 percent said they didn’t have an opinion one way or another. A separate poll released last year found that a plurality of Texas voters want the state’s marijuana laws to be made “less strict.” And among the legislative items lawmakers considered during recent special sessions, voters say a proposal to address hemp regulations was among the least important. Meanwhile, the lieutenant governor and House speaker announced recently that the state will proceed with its own ibogaine research program after no drug companies submitted proposals meeting requirements and standards to receive state funds to begin clinical trials with the psychedelic under a recently enacted law. The post Texas Judge Pauses New Rules Banning Hemp Products Like Smokable THCA Flower Amid Legal Challenge From Industry appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

The Hawaii Senate has passed a pair of resolutions calling on Congress to federally legalize marijuana, support state efforts to clear people’s conviction records and take steps to facilitate access to banking services for companies in the cannabis industry. “Even though states have made significant policy changes with respect to cannabis, the federal Controlled Substances Act still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I substance,” the measures that were approved in 20-5 votes by the Senate on Thursday say, “which means that medical cannabis dispensaries and other cannabis-related businesses continue to face the prospect of federal seizures, forfeitures, arrests, and other enforcement and prosecution actions.” The legal recreational cannabis industry could generate more than $1 billion in sales in Hawaii by its fifth year of operation, according to a recent state-commissioned study, the resolutions point out. Current medical marijuana businesses in the state “are hampered by their inability to obtain the full spectrum of private banking services under federal law,” the measures sponsored by Sen. Joy San Buenaventura (D) say, adding that “arrests and convictions for cannabis possession remain on record and often impact the ability of a person to obtain housing and employment.” SR58 and SCR64 call on Congress to: (1) Remove cannabis from the federal Controlled Substances Act; (2) Provide support to states that are in the process of clearing defendants’ records of cannabis offenses; and (3) Facilitate access to the full spectrum of banking services for cannabis-related businesses. The resolutions were approved last week by the Senate Judiciary Committee, which had amended them from their originally introduced form to remove provisions that had noted that alcohol and tobacco don’t fall under the Controlled Substances Act, “even though the regular use of those substances often leads to physical injuries, psychological and social harm, the onset of chronic and fatal illnesses, and other negative impacts on individual and public health.” Sen. Karl Rhoads (D), the chair of the committee, said that the arguments about other substances “seem irrelevant” to the marijuana resolutions. The concurrent resolution now heads to the House of Representatives for consideration. The separate Senate resolution simply expresses the sense of that body and requires no further action. It will now be transmitted to President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, as well as the top Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate and each member of Hawaii’s congressional delegation. The concurrent resolution will take the same path if approved by the House. Last week, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee adopted separate resolutions calling on the state attorney general and health department to request an exemption from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) stipulating that Hawaii is permitted to run its medical cannabis program without federal interference. — Marijuana Moment is tracking hundreds of cannabis, psychedelics and drug policy bills in state legislatures and Congress this year. Patreon supporters pledging at least $25/month get access to our interactive maps, charts and hearing calendar so they don’t miss any developments. Learn more about our marijuana bill tracker and become a supporter on Patreon to get access. — Although Hawaii senators recently approved a bill to legalize low-dose and low-potency marijuana, the legislation didn’t advance through required steps before a key deadline, and so it is dead for the year. A separate marijuana legalization bill that contained provisions making the reform contingent on changes to federal law or the state Constitution, SB 2421, was deferred for action. Both Senate and House panels additionally deferred action on a measure to allow for the sale of certain hemp-derived cannabinoid products. Those actions comes after key House lawmakers signaled that cannabis legalization proposals would not be advancing in the 2026 session, citing a lack of sufficient support in their chamber. Last month, a Hawaii Senate committee separately passed legislation to allow patients to immediately access medical cannabis once their registrations are submitted, instead of having to wait until their cards are delivered as is the case under current law. Meanwhile, another Hawaii House committee last week approved a Senate-passed bill that would create a psychedelics task force responsible for studying and making policy recommendations on providing access to breakthrough therapies such as psilocybin and MDMA. Legislation to allow qualifying patients to access medical marijuana at health facilities also advanced this session. The post Hawaii Senate Votes To Ask Congress To Federally Legalize Marijuana appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

Oregon’s governor has signed a bill to allow patients with debilitating medical conditions to access medical marijuana in certain health facilities such as hospices. Gov. Tina Kotek (D) approved the legislation from Rep. Farrah Chaichi (D) on Tuesday after it cleared the Senate in a 20-8 vote last month and was passed by the House of Representatives in a 39-3 vote in February. Chaichi said in testimony to the Senate Health Care Committee that the bill is “an important tool to facilitate cannabis use as an alternative or addition to opioid use in end of life care.” “While sometimes necessary, opiates are often overly sedative, preventing quality family interaction in someone’s final days,” she said. “As someone who lost my mother while she was intubated, I know how meaningful it is for patients to be present and in the moments of their last days and weeks with their loved ones. This is a quality of life and a quality of care issue. The bill’s goal is to ensure patients who desire this important and valid medical treatment have access across the board.” As enacted, HB 4142 will require hospice, palliative and home care organizations, as well as residential facilities, to develop rules permitting registered patients with debilitating conditions to use medical cannabis. The reform is similar to—albeit somewhat more limited than—multiple “Ryan’s law” measures that have advanced in state legislatures across the country. Ryan’s law, which is named after a young cannabis patient in California who passed away, generally refers to a policy broadly permitting medical marijuana use in health facilities such as hospitals. The Oregon bill doesn’t extend to hospitals, but it builds upon the state’s medical cannabis program in a way that advocates say will meaningfully improve quality of life for seriously ill patients. Under the proposal, the Oregon State Board of Nursing will further be prohibited “from disciplining a nurse who discusses the medical use of marijuana with a patient,” according to a legislative summary. It will additionally make it so eligible health facilities can act as medical marijuana caregivers if authorized by regulators. The legislation “exempts residential facilities that provide a patient with medical marijuana from criminal laws related to the possession, delivery, or manufacture of marijuana” and “allows a conditionally designated residential facility to develop a written policy and train staff before the operative date,” the summary says. Now that the governor has signed the measure, it is set to become operative on January 1, 2027. The post Oregon Governor Signs Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use In Hospices And Other Health Facilities appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net