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Advocates for convenience stores are celebrating a recently enacted delay in the effective date of a federal ban on hemp THC products, saying the move provides an opportunity to create regulations as an alternative to prohibition. Convenience stores, they say, are an ideal place to continue to sell hemp products under any new rules that are enacted “The convenience retail channel, with its well-established age verification procedures, is suited to selling hemp products to adults legally and responsibly,” Jon Taets, director of government relations for NACS, formerly the National Association of Convenience Stores, said. “We look forward to working with Congress on a solution that not only protects children in our communities but also supports small businesses,” he said. The group has “actively encouraged Congress to delay the hemp ban,” NACS said. “Doing so provides more time to develop a regulatory framework that allows for legal, safe sales of products containing hemp-derived THC to adults.” “These products are an important category for convenience stores, which have experienced significant demand for THC beverages and other products from adult customers,” the organization said. “For c-store operators, the hemp-derived THC category could offer significant sales and growth opportunities, particularly in states that have passed legislation to regulate these products.” Hemp derivatives with less than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC on a dry-weight basis were federally legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill that Trump signed during his first term in office. But late last year, the president signed new legislation containing provisions that redefined hemp to make it so only products with 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container would remain legal after November 12. Now, however, under provisions included in a funding bill Trump signed last week, the effective date of the ban for most products is being pushed back to December 11 to give lawmakers more time to craft regulations for hemp derivatives. There is a carve-out, however, to allow the recriminalization on November 12 of synthetic cannabinoids “that are not capable of being naturally produced by a Cannabis sativa L. plant.” Melissa VonderHaar, the vide president of commercial strategy for iSee Store Innovations and chair of the C-Store Cannabis Board for CSP, said that the delay in the ban is “very important” but is “only step 1.” “Retailers, now is the time to make some noise. Convenience sees more customers per day than any other channel,” she said in a social media post. “Get the signage up, leverage your loyalty apps to make sure your shoppers know: the ban is still coming and their voices matter. The write-in campaigns depend on VOLUME and our channel is uniquely equipped to deliver.” VonderHaar told CSP that “this extension demonstrates what can be accomplished when the right partners work together toward a common goal.” “Now, we need to build on that momentum and unify behind a regulatory framework we can get across the finish line by December,” she said. Now that Trump has signed the delay of the ban into law, members of Congress are debating how—and whether—the crop’s derivatives should be regulated as an alternative to prohibition. Several Republican lawmakers spoke to Marijuana Moment last week about the kinds of rules they would like to see enacted to keep hemp THC products legal. A number of lawmakers from both chambers and both parties have filed or are circulating a growing number of bills to prevent the scheduled federal recriminalization of hemp THC drinks and other products. Until now, none of those proposals have gained traction with congressional leaders. For example, Reps. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) and Greg Landsman (D-OH) filed a bill to keep hemp THC drinks legal while taxing and regulating them like alcohol. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is circulating legislation that would delay a planned federal ban on hemp THC products and institute some regulations—including packaging requirements, testing rules and age limits. Separately, Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), filed a lengthier proposal to prevent the federal recriminalization of hemp THC products and put in place a number of regulations for manufacturing, labeling, sales and taxation of hemp-derived products, including an age limit of 21. Trump and White House officials repeatedly pressed Congress to delay, alter or reverse the ban in recent months. In a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in June, for example, White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought said the Trump administration wants lawmakers to “ensure the fair treatment of hemp products”—specifically citing Barr’s earlier amendment to keep many hemp products legal while adding regulations and taxes. The administration “welcomes the opportunity to work with the Congress to, at a minimum, update the statutory definition of final hemp-derived cannabinoid products to allow Americans to benefit from access to appropriate full-spectrum CBD products,” OMB separately said in June, “while preserving the Congress’s intent to restrict the sale of products that pose serious health risks.” Also in April, the president himself urged congressional lawmakers to again redefine hemp to avoid recriminalization of full-spectrum CBD products. “I am calling on Congress to update the Law to ensure that Americans can continue to access the full-spectrum CBD products they have come to rely on, and that help them, while preserving Congress’s intent to restrict the sale of products that pose Health risks,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “We must get this done RIGHT and FAST, especially for those who saw that CBD helps them,” he said. “Plus, I am told it will also help our GREAT FARMERS, who we love, and will always be there for.” Industry advocates say that the law as enacted last year not only threatens to prohibit intoxicating and synthetic cannabinoid products but also stands to remove popular full-spectrum CBD products that many Americans use therapeutically from the market. “ONE in FIVE adults used it in the past year, and many say it improved their chronic pain enormously,” the president said in his social media post, adding that hemp-derived CBD “has made a HUGE difference for so many people.” He also referenced a new initiative the administration launched in April 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 products to have up to 3 milligrams of total THC per serving. A federal judge granted the government’s motion to dismiss marijuana legalization opponents’ lawsuit challenging the initiative, but that is being appealed. “In December, I signed a very important Executive Order calling for Research and Innovation for Hemp-derived CBD,” Trump said. “Our wonderful Dr. Mehmet Oz moved fast to follow the directive in the Executive Order, and launched a model for some Seniors earlier this month. But more must be done!” “Please get it done, and SOON,” the president said in reference to a congressional fix for the broad recriminalization set to take effect in November. “Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Some members of the alcohol industry have also urged Congress to regulate, rather than ban, hemp products. The National Restaurant Association recently sent a letter urging congressional leaders to delay the federal recriminalization of hemp THC beverages and replace it with a regulatory framework that “ensures consumer safety while meeting growing market demand” for the products as an alternative to alcohol. Major retailer Target, meanwhile, recently moved to expand its sales of hemp THC drinks into more states. The post Convenience Store Industry Says Congress Should Regulate Hemp THC Products Instead Of Banning Them appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

A new report from congressional researchers says that a split among circuit courts about whether state marijuana business licensing systems can discriminate against out-of-state residents “likely increases the odds” that the Supreme Court will take up and resolve the issue. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) report, published on Thursday, examines the Dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to bar protectionist state laws that unduly restrict interstate commerce even in areas where Congress has not directly weighed in. As more states have legalized marijuana, some have enacted policies that favor business run by in-state residents over those led by people based in other states. Some of those polices have been challenged with federal lawsuits, and appeals courts have reached different conclusions about the issue. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the for the Second Circuit, for example, ruled that a New York policy that prioritizes licensing for cannabis businesses run by people who have been convicted of marijuana-related charges under that state’s laws, or have a relative with such a conviction, likely violates the Dormant Commerce Clause. “The Commerce Clause prohibits the enforcement of state laws driven by economic protectionism—that is, regulatory measures designed to benefit in-state economic interests by burdening out-of-state competitors,” the court ruled. CRS noted in its analysis that the court acknowledged “the irony behind applying this objective to federally illegal marijuana markets” but said that the Supreme Court previously determined in a medical cannabis case, Gonzales v. Raich, that the illegal nature of marijuana activities “is of no constitutional import” for purposes of the Commerce Clause. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, for its part, held that a Maine law requiring all officers and directors of a marijuana business to be residents of the state violates the Dormant Commerce Clause. State officials in the case didn’t dispute that the state law would violate the Dormant Commerce Clause if marijuana were federally legal, but instead argued that the state statute is permissible “because federal law makes participation in the market to which the residency requirement applies illegal.” They argued that the Dormant Commerce Clause only bars states from “unjustifiably…discriminat[ing] against or burden[ing] the interstate flow of articles of commerce,” whereas there can’t be an interstate commercial market federally illegal cannabis. The court disagreed, reasoning that the Supreme Court’s Raich ruling determined that marijuana is “a fungible commodity for which there is an established, albeit illegal, interstate market.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, on the other hand, declined to apply the Dormant Commerce Clause to challenges to marijuana business ownership residency requirements in Washington State and Sacramento, California. The court cited Supreme Court guidance to “tread cautiously when considering whether to invalidate state laws under the court inferred dormant Commerce Clause,” ultimately reasoning that there is no “implied constitutional right to engage in illegal interstate commerce.” “Nothing in dormant Commerce Clause precedent requires us to indulge the obvious ‘irony’ of applying a doctrine implied from an affirmative grant of power to Congress to preserve a national market that Congress does not want to exist,” the Ninth Circuit opinion said. CRS said that although the Supreme Court has not yet agreed to take up the application of the Dormant Commerce Clause to such marijuana business licensing disputes, the split in views on the issue among circuit courts “likely increases the odds that the Court will review this issue at some point.” “The fact that all the cases discussed above were decided when all relevant state marijuana activities remained illegal under federal law, however, might make the Court less likely to grant certiorari,” the report said. The justices may instead “wait to see how future lower court Dormant Commerce Clause analysis in this space evolves” in light of the Trump administration’s move to federally reschedule marijuana, CRS reasoned. Attorney General Todd Blanche in April issued an order that immediately reclassified state-licensed medical cannabis, as well as marijuana products approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to Schedule III. Under a separate order he signed, a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hearing was held to consider more comprehensively moving marijuana to Schedule III. In any case, CRS said, lawmakers don’t need to wait for courts to weigh in. — 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. — “Congress has the power to address the issue itself,” the report said. “As the Supreme Court has explained, ‘Congress has undoubted power to…either permit the states to regulate the commerce in a manner which would otherwise not be permissible or exclude state regulation.'” “Congress could thus pass legislation providing states and localities an ‘unmistakably clear’ authorization to implement protectionist marijuana policies,” CRS said. It could also “do the opposite and expressly bar states and localities from implementing marijuana-related laws that favor in-state residents over nonresidents,” the report noted. “Similarly, Congress could establish a federal regulatory system applicable to marijuana activities that fits more closely within the Supreme Court’s existing Dormant Commerce Clause jurisprudence, as opposed to the current status where the Court has never weighed in on how the Clause applies to activities that are illegal under federal law,” CRS concluded. The Marijuana Policy Project, a pro-legalization advocacy group, recently said that it believes there could soon be a “successful” federal lawsuit concerning the Dormant Commerce Clause’s applicability to interstate cannabis commerce in light of rescheduling. “DCC protection would bar states with legal markets from discriminating against legal products from other states,” MPP said. “The federal decisions finding no DCC protection have leaned on cannabis’s federal illegality.” The move to reschedule cannabis “almost certainly changes that for licensed medical operators,” the group said. “We expect stakeholders to sue states in multiple federal circuits (hoping to consolidate those into one suit), seeking to force open state markets on constitutional grounds,” MPP said.” Interstate commerce in Schedule III drugs between DEA-approved entities is clearly covered by the DCC. A federal case will take time, but assuming rescheduling stands, we expect federal litigation to be ultimately successful.” The post Supreme Court Could Resolve Marijuana Business Licensing Disputes, Congressional Report Says appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

Using marijuana appears to have a “positive outcome” on people struggling with some eating disorders, according to a new study. “Cannabis is widely used by people with eating disorders and is widely perceived as beneficial in restrictive and food-averse, but not binge, eating disorder subtypes,” the paper, published in the Journal of Eating Disorders, found. Researchers at the University of Sydney in Australia surveyed more than 7,500 people with a diagnosed or self-reported eating disorder (ED), with more than 3,o00 of whom that used cannabis within the past year. Respondents represented 76 countries, with most residing in Australia (29.7 percent), the United Kingdom (21.7 percent) and the United States (17.6 percent). “Cannabis received the highest mean ratings of any drug for improving ED symptoms” among people avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, anorexia nervosa and other specified feeding and eating disorder, the study found. People with unspecified feeding or eating disorder “also reported a favorable rating.” For people with anorexia nervosa specifically, “cannabis use drove reductions in food-related anxiety and guilt, which, together with appetite stimulation, helped normalise their eating,” the study found. “The gastroprotective and antinausea properties of cannabis appear to provide additional therapeutic benefits over and above those provided by appetite stimulation and anxiety reduction.” For people with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), which involves a lack of desire to eat and aversions to food based on sensory factors such as texture, taste and smell, there is a “transformational effect of cannabis” related to “increased appetite and enhanced ability to recognise hunger cues,” the researchers wrote. “The higher frequency of daily cannabis use amongst those with ARFID may well reflect self-medication for these therapeutic benefits,” they said. “Indeed, daily use of cannabis flower was generally associated with higher ED symptom improvement scores relative to intermittent use, suggesting that symptom improvement may drive frequency of use.” In contrast, people with binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa, “provided lower ratings” for marijuana’s efficacy—perhaps because “the appetite-stimulating properties of THC may exacerbate binge/purge symptomatology,” the paper said. When participants were prompted with open-ended questions, “general mental health was self-reported as improved by cannabis in most respondents regardless of diagnosis,” the researchers wrote. Participants also said cannabis helps with improved ability to eat, improved awareness of hunger cues, reduced guilt related to their eating disorder, less nausea and diminished food-related anxiety. “Our findings suggest that cannabis is widely used by individuals with an ED or disordered eating and that naturalistic use of cannabis is self-reported as having a positive outcome on ED symptoms.” That said, “a substantial number described mixed experiences of both improvement and exacerbation of ED symptoms,” the study found. The research is a follow-up to an earlier paper that some of the same authors published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found that marijuana and psychedelics were “the highest rated” drugs in effectively addressing eating disorder symptoms. “Our top-level analysis indicated that cannabis was commonly used among respondents and was one of the few drugs rated positively for ED symptom improvement. In [anorexia nervosa], [avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder,], and [other specified deeding and eating disorder], this positive rating was superior to all prescription drugs.” While daily use of marijuana flower specifically was more associated with improved eating disorder scores than intermittent use in the new study, symptom improvement didn’t vary overall based on cannabis product type or cannabinoid composition. The researchers noted that the self-report and naturalistic nature of the study means that no strong causal conclusions can be drawn, saying that “future clinical trials of cannabis products are warranted in eating disorders.” They also flagged concerns about cannabis dependence and “other adverse effects” of frequent use that some participants reported. The post Marijuana Improves Symptoms For People With Anorexia And Other Eating Disorders, Study Finds appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

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GOP lawmakers talk hemp regulations; NH legalization push; TX Dem campaigns on marijuana; NE medical cannabis laws upheld 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 President Donald Trump commuted the sentences of more people with marijuana convictions as his administration continues to consider federal cannabis rescheduling. 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“Rhode Island has already chosen to regulate hemp rather than prohibit it. Our next attorney general should explain whether they intend to defend that decision.” By Mike Simpson, Lovewell Farms via Rhode Island Current Last October, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha (D) joined 38 other state attorneys general in signing a letter urging Congress to change the federal definition of hemp. On August 4, Neronha signed another multistate letter, this time urging Congress to reject any effort to “delay, repeal, suspend, or weaken” hemp restrictions enacted in November 2025. I have now written twice in the last year about the problems with this federal policy and its consequences for Rhode Island farmers and small businesses. I write as the co-founder of Lovewell Farms, Rhode Island’s only USDA-certified organic hemp farm, founded in 2018. I write this with nearly 20 years experience in cannabis and drug policy. Lovewell Farms supports strong regulation of hemp products, including testing, reasonable potency limits, child-resistant packaging, accurate labeling and restrictions on sales to minors. What we do not support is describing Rhode Island’s regulated hemp industry as something that is harmful. That was one of the central problems with the October 2025 attorneys general letter. It described a national hemp market in which products are sold “without consistent age restrictions, labeling standards, or safety requirements,” while discussing gummies and beverages marketed to children and synthetic cannabinoids produced through chemical conversion. Those concerns may be legitimate in states that have failed to regulate hemp products. They do not accurately describe Rhode Island. Neronha signing this letter made it appear he agreed with these claims, and that they were reflective of our state’s program. But Rhode Island has a state-regulated hemp program. Businesses like mine operate under state licenses and are subject to the exact same requirements governing testing, potency, labeling, packaging and age restrictions as the state’s medicinal cannabis program. The state has also placed specific limits on THC in consumable hemp products. There is certainly room to debate whether those regulations should change, but it is simply inaccurate to describe Rhode Island’s hemp market as unregulated and unsafe. This distinction became particularly important after Congress enacted a new federal definition of hemp last November. Rhode Island Sens. Jack Reed (D) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D) both opposed an amendment that would have removed the hemp provision, and their offices subsequently told Rhode Island Current that they did so “at the urging of the vast majority of the state attorneys general.” Neronha’s participation in the October letter therefore had consequences beyond Rhode Island. It provided the justification for a congressional vote that now threatens farmers nationwide. This August letter is more troubling after the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed legislation that would give farmers another month before the new definition takes effect. The provision is part of a short-term government funding bill to avoid a federal shutdown this fall. It keeps the federal government funded through December 11 and was already approved by the Senate in early August. If signed into law by President Donald Trump, the effective date of the hemp product ban would also be moved to December 11. Rather than support that effort, Neronha joined other attorneys general in asking Congress to reject any delay or modification. The problem remains that the federal definition is much broader than the synthetic and highly intoxicating products discussed throughout both letters. The August letter itself acknowledges that the new law excludes final hemp-derived cannabinoid products containing more than 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container. That threshold does not merely eliminate synthetic delta-8 products or high-potency THC gummies. It threatens ordinary, naturally extracted, full-spectrum CBD products containing trace amounts of THC like those manufactured on our farm. This is important for farmers like me. CBD-rich hemp flower plants naturally produce small amounts of THC. Full-spectrum extracts preserve most of the natural cannabinoids in the plant. Our products can therefore be non-intoxicating, produced without chemical conversion, and compliant with state law, all while containing more than 0.4 milligrams of THC per package. The August letter nevertheless states that the new definition will preserve “safe, nonintoxicating hemp products” and “will not inhibit the cultivation of hemp.” For cannabinoid hemp farmers, those assertions deserve considerably more scrutiny. Congress should be able to prohibit synthetic intoxicants or establish reasonable national standards without defining naturally occurring, non-intoxicating full-spectrum CBD products out of existence. AG candidates: Please answer the following This issue now has particular relevance in Rhode Island because Neronha is term-limited. The state will elect a new attorney general this year, and that person will inherit the authority to sign letters like these on Rhode Island’s behalf. The candidates for attorney general should therefore explain their positions on hemp before the primary election. Do you support Rhode Island’s existing regulated hemp industry? Do you believe naturally occurring full-spectrum CBD products should remain legal? Do you support the federal 0.4-milligram-per-container standard, even when it prohibits non-intoxicating products that are legal under state law? Do you support distinguishing those products from chemically converted intoxicating cannabinoids? Will you consult Rhode Island regulators, farmers and licensed businesses before signing national policy letters that make factual claims about our state? When an attorney general signs such a letter, the signature carries the authority of the state. As the congressional response to the October letter demonstrated, those signatures can influence federal policy. The August letter suggests that there is still a substantial disconnect between the national hemp debate and the businesses operating under Rhode Island law. Do you support the federal 0.4-mg-per-container standard, even when it prohibits non-intoxicating products that are legal under state law? Will you consult RI regulators, farmers, & businesses before signing national policy letters that make factual claims about our state? — Lovewell Farms (@lovewell_farms) September 2, 2026 The next attorney general has an opportunity to approach this differently. Rhode Island does not need someone who automatically agrees with the hemp industry, nor should the industry be exempt from scrutiny. We need an attorney general who understands the laws already in place and distinguishes between regulated and unregulated markets, intoxicating and non-intoxicating products and synthetic cannabinoids and the naturally occurring compounds found in a legal agricultural crop. Rhode Island has already chosen to regulate hemp rather than prohibit it. Our next attorney general should explain whether they intend to defend that decision, or abandon it. Mike Simpson is the co-founder of Lovewell Farms, Rhode Island’s only U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) organic hemp farm. He is also a historian, educator and longtime advocate for policy reform. He was previously deputy director for Regulate Rhode Island and an initiative coordinator for Marijuana Policy Project in Maine. He now lives in Providence and farms in the village of Hope Valley in Hopkinton. This story was first published by Rhode Island Current. The post Rhode Island Hemp Farmer Wants Attorney General Candidates To Answer These Questions (Op-Ed) appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

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“We are not in any way convinced that we are definitely moving to be a marijuana-legal state. It could happen, but it may not.” By Clayton Henkel, NC Newsline When members of the North Carolina House and Senate reconvene in November, they will be faced with having to decide how to regulate intoxicating hemp products. The two chambers were at odds in July over House Bill 328, which would ban hemp with more than 0.4 milligrams of THC and prohibit the sale of any hemp consumables, including CBD, to anyone under 21. House members opted to wait until after November’s midterm elections, not wanting to upset a $4 billion industry that employs 16,000 people in North Carolina. In Washington, the hemp industry received a one-month reprieve this week from a national ban on intoxicating hemp products as part of a short-term funding bill. The U.S. House voted to delay the ban from taking effect until December 11, as the White House pushes to delay or somehow fix the national ban. At the same time, the Trump administration has called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug, the same class as Tylenol with codeine. While the outlook is hazy, the end of the year could bring big changes for both the hemp and cannabis industries. Hemp consumables are largely unrestricted in our state, but North Carolina is in the unique minority of states in which marijuana is fully illegal for both recreational and medicinal purposes. State lawmakers are trying to navigate how to best protect minors from hemp-derived cannabinoids, while also preparing for a future that could include some form of legal cannabis. 39 states, 39 approaches The North Carolina Advisory Council on Cannabis, appointed in June 2025 by Gov. Josh Stein (D), has been meeting for months to develop a comprehensive approach to regulate cannabis sales and create a safe, legal market for adults that protects kids. Nearly 40 states have already enacted cannabis regulations, but no two are the same. Yasha Kahn, co-founder of MCR Labs, has been involved in cannabis testing for more than a decade. Kahn was invited to offer his expertise to the advisory council last week, as that group explores a framework for legalization. North Carolina policymakers will have to decide on an endless number of variables in regulating cannabis, including who should handle testing and at what point in the process the product should be tested. Kahn said each state has unique testing requirements with no real consensus. And each state may have its own approach to testing batch sizes, packaging, total THC definitions, and regulatory audits. “Instead of looking at this as a huge mess, it really is 39 individual experiments on policy with much of the data available that we can analyze,” said Kahn. “We can see which policies have worked, which ones haven’t.” Kahn said cannabis has the potential to be a multi-billion-dollar industry for North Carolina. Balancing testing and oversight The advisory committee will also have to decide whether to use private labs or state labs to test the purity and potency of cannabis if it should become legal. Either way, Kahn recommended the state should require all lab results be made public and shared with state agencies. “How long would it take to have a testing lab to be up and running and producing results?” asked council member Pat Oglesby. Kahn said there are hemp labs that would likely be willing to take on the testing for a slice of a booming industry, but establishing an accredited lab from scratch would take time. “A lot of instruments have months of delays just to be delivered. You have to have capital and good talent,” said Kahn. “I’ve heard of labs opening within maybe nine months. In my experience, it’s closer to a year and a half.” Privatizing testing, however, comes with risk, Kahn said, as consumer fraud has been documented in multiple states. A store owner, for example, may find a low THC product is not selling well and urge the cultivator to produce a stronger product. The cultivator may then call the lab and suggest they provide higher THC results, or they will find a new lab to deliver those results. “This happens in every market that has more than one lab,” Kahn cautioned. Kahn said this deception becomes easier to trace when the labs are required to share data with the state and those results are made public. In Colorado, THC potency inflation and the failure to identify mold and other contaminants has legislators considering shifting their cannabis testing to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Lawmakers there are also considering having state regulators collect the samples to be tested from dispensaries, rather than samples being provided by the producer or cultivators. Will the industry bloom in North Carolina? Dr. Larry Greenblatt, state health director and co-chair of the advisory council, said while it may appear that North Carolina is marching toward some form of cannabis legalization, it’s by no means a foregone conclusion. “We are not in any way convinced that we are definitely moving to be a marijuana-legal state,” said Greenblatt. “It could happen, but it may not.” The advisory group’s final recommendations, including a detailed look at lab testing, will be included in a report to the governor at the end of this year. It would then be up to the legislature to decide if they want to use the information as the foundation or guidance for a cannabis market in North Carolina. Stein has said he supports legalization for adults, but Republican lawmakers are divided. Recent attempts to legalize medical marijuana have died in the state House, despite the backing of Senate leaders. And neither chamber has ever voted to legalize the drug for recreational use. Meantime, other states are moving ahead. In neighboring Virginia, regulators will begin accepting applications for regulated recreational cannabis dispensaries in February, with a retail launch set for July 1, 2027. This story was first published by NC Newsline. Photo courtesy of Brian Shamblen. The post North Carolina Officials Weigh Marijuana And Hemp Policies As Federal Law Remains In Flux appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

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President Donald Trump has granted clemency to two people who are serving time for federal marijuana convictions as his administration advances the process of rescheduling cannabis. The president on Thursday commuted the sentences of Jerry Haymon IV and Kevin Harden, effectively ending their sentences and putting them on the path to being free. Haymon was given a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence in federal prison for his participation in a marijuana distribution conspiracy, and has been living in home confinement for the past year. Until now, he has had about a year left to go and has experienced difficulty getting approval for jobs. For example, the private company overseeing his home confinement blocked his ability to handle social media for a cannabis company and to do research at a policy organization that touched on the issue of marijuana even though neither job would have involved him touching the plant. “Today is an amazing day that I will never forget,” Haymon told Marijuana Moment on Friday after receiving the news of his commutation, saying it feels like he has been “reborn again.” “I got my life back,” he said. “There are no words that can fully express what this act of clemency means to me and the people I love. I am deeply grateful to everyone who advocated for me, supported me and helped give me this second chance.” Thirty-six members of Congress sent a letter to then-President Joe Biden in support of Haymon’s request for clemency. “Jerry was a two-way football star in high school who went on to play defensive back in college, where he was majoring in economics (and even made the Dean’s List one semester),” the lawmakers wrote. “Prior to his arrest in 2017, Jerry was looking to try out for professional football. At sentencing, the trial judge regretfully noted that his hands were tied by federal mandatory minimum prison terms for marijuana.” While Biden issued mass pardons to people who committed federal marijuana possession offenses, he did not heed calls to free people serving time in federal prison for involvement in selling cannabis. Harden, the other person that Trump granted clemency to on Thursday, has been serving a 30-year sentence after being convicted of conspiracy to distribute marijuana. His co-defendant in the cannabis case, James Romans, was granted clemency by Trump in 2021 on the final day of his first term in office. While incarcerated, Harden has experienced several severe medical issues, including multiple open-heart surgeries, a seizure disorder and blood-clotting. The clemency applications from Haymon and Harden were both accompanied by a letter that boxer Mike Tyson wrote to Trump in which he praised the president for making moves to federally reschedule marijuana. “There are Americans still sitting in federal prison for the very conduct your order addresses, waiting to see if your historic words will extend to them,” he wrote. “With two-thirds of Americans in support of marijuana legalization, not more punishment, the politics align with common sense policy. Yet individuals remain behind bars under outdated federal laws for conduct that today would not result in prison in much of the country.” “Granting clemency to non-violent marijuana offenders would reunite families, restore lost opportunity, and write the final chapter of the federal war on marijuana—a chapter that only you have the power to close,” Tyson said. “It would be a legacy moment: bold, decisive, and right. I respectfully urge you to act.” The two cannabis commutations are part of a broader package of clemency grants the the president issued this week. Trump’s move to free a handful of cannabis prisoners comes as his administration of moving forward with the process of federally rescheduling marijuana. Attorney General Todd Blanche in April issued an order that immediately reclassified state-licensed medical cannabis, as well as marijuana products approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to Schedule III. Under a separate order he signed, the DEA hearing was held to consider more comprehensively moving marijuana to Schedule III. An agency judge is currently considering a recommendation on the issue, and then the DEA administrator will issue a final determination. During the hearing, DEA officials charged with defending the cannabis rescheduling proposal highlighted testimony on marijuana’s medical benefits and its relative safety compared to other substances such as alcohol and opioids. That included appearances from a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientist and a medical doctor from New Hampshire who detailed how medical marijuana provides relief to pain patients and can serve as an alternative to opioids. Weldon Angelos, founder of the criminal justice non-profit The Weldon Project who received a cannabis-related presidential pardon during Trump’s first term, said that “today is an extraordinary day for two deserving men and their families.” “These grants of clemency are about mercy, redemption, second chances and recognizing the humanity in people who have already paid an enormous price for their mistakes,” he said. “President Trump has granted clemency to two individuals serving prison time for cannabis, Jerry Haymon and Kevin Harden. Jerry, a former college football standout, has worked incredibly hard to demonstrate that a person’s worst moment should never define the rest of their life. Kevin has endured serious and debilitating medical conditions that have made his continued incarceration both extraordinarily difficult and increasingly dangerous.” “I am deeply grateful to President Trump and Alice Johnson for continuing to give deserving people a pathway home,” Angelos said, referring to Trump’s White House pardon czar who herself received clemency from Trump in 2018. “For Jerry and Kevin, and especially for the families who have waited and prayed for this day, this is life-changing,” he said. “We are also encouraged by the administration’s continued commitment to clemency and expect to see more deserving individuals receive relief in the future. This is exactly why we do this work.” Haymon said he is “eternally grateful to President Donald J. Trump and Alice Johnson for granting me a full commutation for my marijuana offense and giving me the opportunity to move forward with my life without this conviction hanging over me.” “I also want to thank Weldon Angelos and the entire Mission Green and Weldon Project team for believing in me, fighting for me, and never giving up on my case,” he said. “They stood beside me and my family throughout this process and worked tirelessly to make this moment possible.” Erik Luna, who represented Haymon on behalf of the Mission Green Initiative and serves as director of research and legal policy at the Weldon Project, said his client “received a ten-year federal sentence for conduct that is now legal in both states where the offense occurred.” “Jerry served years in prison for a first-time, nonviolent marijuana offense, while today multi-billion-dollar cannabis companies operate openly under state law—often with armed security—engaging in the very conduct for which Jerry was convicted and sentenced,” he said. “That is the definition of injustice.” Earlier this year, Trump pardoned a former NFL star who was convicted of trafficking 175 pounds of marijuana. At the start of his second term, the president fulfilled a campaign promise by commuting the life sentence of Ross Ulbricht, a man who was convicted of running a dark web illicit drug market. The post Trump Releases More Federal Marijuana Prisoners As DEA Considers Rescheduling Cannabis appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

Driving games often focus on racing, competition, or completing fixed challenges. Hop Earth offers a different kind of experience by allowing players to explore roads connected to real-world locations. Instead of following a traditional level system, players can choose an area, start driving, and discover unfamiliar routes at their own pace. This open style of exploration is one of the game’s strongest features, but it can also make the first experience confusing. New players may not immediately understand the controls, where to begin, or how to find interesting roads. Technical problems such as a black screen, incomplete loading, or a vehicle failing to appear may also prevent players from starting their journey. Hopearth is an independent Hop Earth player guide designed to make this process easier. It provides practical information about basic controls, route ideas, coordinates, mobile use, multiplayer features, and common technical problems. The site can be especially useful for players who want clearer instructions without spending too much time searching across different sources. One enjoyable way to use Hop Earth is to select a city or landscape that you have never visited and explore its surrounding roads virtually. Coastal highways, mountain routes, quiet rural roads, and large urban areas can all create very different driving experiences. Players can also save interesting coordinates and return to them later. Hopearth does not host the game and is not connected with the official Hop Earth team. It serves as an independent reference for players who want help understanding the game and discovering new places to explore.

The Democratic candidate running to become Texas’s next lieutenant governor is drawing a clear contrast with the Republican incumbent on the issue of cannabis. Vikki Goodwin, who is currently a state representative, will be holding what her campaign calls a “Legalize It” rally in Houston on Saturday. It will feature a performance from Grammy award-winning musician Kam Franklin and an update from an attorney helping to lead litigation against hemp THC product restrictions that were recently enacted by Texas officials. A press release from Goodwin’s campaign calls out “pharmaceutical and alcohol industry donations” to her opponent, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who oversees the Senate and has championed legislation to recriminalize many hemp products. While the bill Patrick favored was ultimately vetoed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R), the governor then issued an executive order on the issue and regulators have since enacted significant restrictions on derivatives from the crop. “Join us to Ban Dan and elect the only one who can stop the THC ban, Vikki Goodwin,” the campaign said of the Houston event, which is expected to be the first of several cannabis-focused rallies in major urban areas of the state. Meanwhile, Goodwin is also endorsing a local measure on Houston’s November ballot to make misdemeanor marijuana possession the “lowest possible enforcement priority” and ban no-knock warrants. “We should not be wasting public resources and ruining lives over low-level cannabis possession. We should not be barging into people’s homes with no-knock raids that escalate danger for both residents and law enforcement,” she said. “Houston voters have an opportunity to lead the state with a smarter, safer approach to public safety. I believe in local government, and communities should have the power to demand policies that reflect their values and prioritize safety and dignity.” The Goodwin campaign is additionally encouraging cannabis reform supporters to participate in phone banking outreach to Texas voters. “Overnight, Dan Patrick made Delta-8 a Schedule I drug in Texas, the same category as heroin and put thousands of Texas hemp businesses out of work. He used the power of the Lieutenant Governor to force through a prohibition crusade backed by the alcohol lobby,” the campaign said. “Half of Texas voters, and 62% of voters under 50, say the ban makes them less likely to back Dan Patrick. They just need to hear that Vikki is the one who can undo it.” A press release from Goodwin’s team cited a poll from last year showing that a strong bipartisan majority of Texans support legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana. “Texas needs a sensible regulatory framework for THC, rather than outright prohibition,” her campaign website says. “Dan Patrick Chose Prohibition Over Protection: Delta-8, Delta-10, THCA and THCP are now Schedule I in Texas — the same category of drug as heroin. Vape pens are a felony at any amount. Purchase and possession of products that you could buy over the counter just a few weeks ago are now illegal. Thousands of Texas manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers lost their business overnight. Consumers who relied on tested, labeled products are now buying from an unregulated market.” “The Lt. Governor controls the Senate calendar. Dan Patrick used that power to force through an anti-cannabis crusade, paid for by the alcohol lobby,” the site says. “Vikki Goodwin will use it to get Texas a framework that protects people without destroying livelihoods.” Last month, Goodwin claimed that Patrick pushed to ban hemp THC products in order to benefit alcohol companies, which happen to be among his substantial campaign contributors. “We’ve seen the lieutenant governor take hundreds of thousands of dollars from the alcohol industry, and that’s what drove the policy around the ban on THC,” she said. “I am in favor of treating THC like alcohol. A part of my healthcare plan is taxing THC like we do alcohol and cigarettes and use that for healthcare.” Marijuana Moment reached out to Patrick’s campaign for comment, but a representative was not immediately available. Texas Democrats are increasingly using the cannabis issue to bash Republicans as the November elections approach—and are highlighting their opponents’ support from the alcohol industry. Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, for example, wants to legalize marijuana and suggested in a recent interview that that his opponent for the seat, state Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) supports banning cannabis in order to aid his political donors in the alcohol and tobacco industries. “It doesn’t make any sense until you follow the money and realize that it is big beer and big tobacco that are funding the politicians, like Ken Paxton, who turned around and banned these safe THC products in order to enrich the big beer and a big tobacco lobby,” Talarico, who currently serves as a state representative, said. In a separate interview, the Democratic candidate said that keeping marijuana illegal while also moving to restrict hemp THC products is an “insane” form of “corruption.” “Think about what industries are most worried about THC products being readily available: Big Beer, Big Tobacco, right? And so they were the ones pushing this THC ban because it hurts their bottom line,” he said. “And a lot of research shows that THC—cannabis—these products are safer and less addictive than than beer or tobacco.” “And so to me, this is a prime example of what corruption looks like when you’ve got big industries buying politicians and pushing bills that harm people, but benefit them financially,” Talarico said. The Texas Democratic Party recently called out Paxton for refusing to answer a question about cannabis policy after he was recently shown in a video posted to X being asked what his thoughts are on the “state’s THC ban.” “I don’t know the details of it, but let’s talk later,” he replied before quickly stepping away. Paxton, in fact, has sued to overturn local voter-approved marijuana decriminalization laws in several cities across Texas. His office has also defended hemp product restrictions in court against lawsuits from the industry. That includes a recently enacted ban on certain hemp-derived THC cannabis products, including those containing delta-8 and delta-10 THC. Now classified as Schedule I drugs under state law, possession is treated as a felony, carrying a punishment of 180 days to two years in prison and fines of up to $10,000. A judge last month declined hemp companies’ request to impose a temporary restraining order on the THC crackdown while the overall litigation is considered. The Texas Democratic Party pounced on Paxton’s inability to answer the cannabis question, saying in a press release that he appeared to be “in a panic” when being pressed about the “incredibly unpopular” THC ban before proceeding to “run away” from the questioner. “Ken Paxton is a coward who runs from questions because he has no answers for his wildly unpopular positions,” Texas Democratic Party Spokesperson Ryan Martin said. “Paxton knows Texans hate this THC ban he has pushed onto people with his nanny-state agenda.” The party’s press release also noted that podcaster Joe Rogan, who lives in and operates a comedy club in Austin, discussed the issue on an episode of his podcast that was posted on Thursday. “They’ve done the THC thing,” he said. “Here’s what Texas doesn’t understand. You will fuck this place up and you will turn the whole thing blue.” “Kids will turn on you if you tell them they can’t smoke weed,” Rogan said. “They know weed’s not killing anybody.” Image element courtesy of AnonMoos. The post Texas Democratic Lieutenant Governor Candidate Campaigns On Support For Marijuana Reform At ‘Legalize It’ Rally appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

Republican elected officials had sought to invalidate the voter-approved medical cannabis legalization ballot measures. By Zach Wendling, Nebraska Examiner The Nebraska Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld Nebraska’s two voter-approved medical cannabis laws following a legal challenge to the 2024 petition effort. Chief Justice Jeffrey Funke, in a 7-0, 49-page opinion, sided against the lawsuit from former state Sen. John Kuehn of Heartwell, a longtime opponent of medical marijuana, as well as similar arguments from Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen (R) and Attorney General Mike Hilgers (R). The duo had alleged widespread fraud and “notarial malfeasance” in the petition process. Kuehn’s appeal sought to get around a Lancaster County District Court judge who affirmed that medical cannabis supporters had enough valid signatures to reach voters in 2024. Kuehn initially sued Evnen. But in the end, the AG’s Office defending Evnen largely joined forces with Kuehn against the Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana campaign. Had the challenge succeeded, the campaign could have sought to rehabilitate challenged signatures in a second trial phase. “Notaries are, in effect, walking stamps of approval,” Zach Pohlman, state deputy solicitor general, told the high court in December. “They are professional truth tellers. And so when they lie, that presumption of truth…gets pierced, and they become just like every other witness.” In addition to the civil trial, Hilgers’s office secured misdemeanor convictions against a circulator from Grand Island and a notary public from York. The circulator pleaded guilty, and a jury convicted the notary. The notary is appealing his convictions. Kuehn, Evnen and Hilgers named other circulators and notaries who they alleged committed wrongdoing. No other charges were filed related to the medical cannabis petitions. If the justices had reversed, the 2024 ballot sponsors would have needed to rehabilitate enough signatures to show at least 86,499 valid signatures on two petitions apiece for the voter-approved laws—to legalize and regulate the new medicine—to stand, or 172,998 total. The campaign had 6,822 more signatures validated than needed when Evnen certified the measures in September 2024. Lancaster County District Judge Susan Strong, who presided over the trial in Lancaster County just days before the 2024 election, ruled that about 1,500 signatures lost a “presumption of validity” across the two petitions, but she said those challenges still fell “well short” of affecting ballot access. During oral arguments, Chief Justice Jeffrey Funke and Justice Jonathan Papik also appeared skeptical of the need for many petition signers to potentially recertify that they signed the petitions. “So does that mean they’d call 86,000 signatories to testify that the petition was read to them, they understood what they were signing and they actually signed it?” Funke asked at the time. “And do that quickly?” Papik added. Justices Stephanie Stacy and William Cassel had also both hinted the case might be “moot” because of the result of the 2024 election or because signatures had already been verified. Papik pressed whether arguments from Kuehn and Hilgers’s office had ever been used. Papik was one of two justices who dissented from a 2020 Supreme Court decision that tossed the first petition effort from Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana from the ballot, arguing it was too broad. Supporters divided the legalization and regulation efforts in 2022 and, finally, in 2024. The voter-created Medical Cannabis Commission has been rewriting its regulations to allow fees for new applications before granting any new licenses. That process is still in the early stages. The next commission meeting is scheduled for September 14. State lawmakers granted the commission the authority to collect fees during the 2026 legislative session, but the commission had already been working to finalize a previous set of regulations. The decision comes amid an ongoing criminal investigation into significant allegations of fraud on at least eight different petitions in the 2026 election cycle. That consists of three proposed amendments to the Lincoln City Charter, four statewide ballot measures and one nonpartisan petition bid for Nebraska governor. Centered in Lancaster County, six out-of-state circulators were arrested who assisted the Lincoln petition effort, and law enforcement is searching for a seventh as of August 19. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R), Evnen and election commissioners for Lancaster and Hall counties are also calling for changes to how signature gathering is operated in Nebraska. Hilgers has called the 2026 situation a “sad period in Nebraska history,” and he’s repeated his assertion that the medical cannabis campaign was “top to bottom the most corrupt, the worst run, poorly executed, most disrespectful to voters in the State of Nebraska petition I’ve ever seen.” Campaign supporters continue to stand by their campaign and push for implementation, including in the Legislature, where multiple cannabis-related bills have stalled since 2024, at least one after Hilgers’s intervention. This story was first published by Nebraska Examiner. Photo courtesy of Max Pixel. The post Nebraska Supreme Court Upholds Medical Marijuana Ballot Initiatives, Rejecting Legal Challenge appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

Now that President Donald Trump has signed a bill that contains provisions to delay the federal recriminalization of hemp THC products that was scheduled to take effect in November, lawmakers are debating how—and whether—the crop’s derivatives should be regulated as an alternative to prohibition. Several Republican lawmakers spoke to Marijuana Moment about the kinds of rules they would like to see enacted to keep hemp THC products legal, while one said he wants to ban them altogether. Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX), who sponsoring a bill to keep hemp THC drinks legal while taxing and regulating them like alcohol, said that the market is a “burgeoning industry” and that her view is to “let people have the choice” to use the products or not—even though she has “never had a hemp beverage in my life.” “I have heard from people in my district that want to continue to be able to buy it,” the congresswoman said. “The product that’s most commonly sold in the same basket is sauvignon blanc. So it seems to me the market is a bunch of yoga moms like me.” Van Duyne told Marijuana Moment that the “White House is taking it seriously” and emphasized that her bill “does not take away from states’ rights to be able to do what they want to do as far as making it illegal or legal.” “We’re following a model that’s already recognized and that it has already proven that it works” with alcoholic beverages, she said. “I’m just trying to do a very specific bill for a very specific product with rules and regulations that have already been established.” Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), who filed a bill this Congress to regulate hemp cannabinoid products, told Marijuana Moment that he thinks his own legislation is “darn close to what we need to do, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be some compromise” with other lawmakers who are supporting different approaches. “I would like to see the White House weigh in since we got the extension” on the effective date of the ban, he said. Hemp derivatives with less than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC on a dry-weight basis were federally legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill that Trump signed during his first term in office. But late last year, the president signed new legislation containing provisions that redefined hemp to make it so only products with 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container would remain legal after November 12. Now, however, under provisions included in a funding bill Trump signed this week, the effective date of the ban for most products is being pushed back to December 11 to give lawmakers more time to craft regulations for hemp derivatives. There is a carve-out, however, to allow the recriminalization on November 12 of synthetic cannabinoids “that are not capable of being naturally produced by a Cannabis sativa L. plant.” “I just want regulation,” Griffith said. “You can argue about what the limit ought to be, and I’m not passionate about it… You have to have third-party testing.” “In the meantime, the products are out there doing bad things to people who don’t understand how much THC they’re getting. Sometimes they don’t even understand they’re getting THC, and that’s bad,” he said. “These products are out there. They’re going to be sold.” “I believe you can’t get that horse back in barn but we can corral it,” Griffith said. “So let’s put the corral on.” Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), a leading opponent of marijuana reform in Congress who has led the charge to recriminalize hemp products, told Marijuana Moment that “we gotta stop poisoning children—it’s that simple.” He sees no need to craft regulations, pointing to the 2025 law he championed that redefined legal hemp by banning many products—saying that the newly enacted delay just means that “they’re poisoning children for one more month.” “Everything’s been written. We have the statute,” he said. “It’s been passed a year ago. It’s all ridiculous. This is to make money for billionaires and poison children, and I’m not into that. The laws already exist.” Van Duyne told Marijuana Moment that she thinks her beverage bill addresses the core concerns of Harris and of senators who are worried about intoxicating hemp products. “It stops the product from being marketed to kids. It puts a ton more regulations on it than it has now,” she said. “It puts it more in alignment with alcohol and beverages. It taxes it and makes sure that it’s not synthetic. It limits the amount per serving.” “We took all the concerns to heart and really tried to give a very strategic, very strict bill that solves the harms that we heard,” Van Duyne said. Griffith, for his part, said that “Andy and I disagree” but that they have talked about the issue. Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), a co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, told Marijuana Moment that the federal government needs to figure out how to more broadly regulate cannabis—pointing to a bill he filed with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) that would create a commission charged with making recommendations on a regulatory system for marijuana that models what’s currently in place for alcohol. “We should have a discussion with every agency that’s involved and spend the year trying to figure out what needs what and how to get to where we need to get and what does that look like,” he said. “Come to a conclusion. At the end of the year, have the report issued. We do it we beer, we do it with wine and spirits. Why can’t we do it with cannabis?” — 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. — The Senate last month rejected an amendment from Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) and several cosponsors that would have removed the hemp ban delay provision from the funding bill, tabling it in a vote of 61-32, and the passing the overall legislation 90-6. The House vote on the bill this week was 370-48. Harris and a handful of congressional Republicans threatened this week to upend their leadership’s agenda in protest of the hemp product ban delay advancing, but they did not succeed. The LCB contributed reporting from Washington, D.C. The post Lawmakers Debate How—And Whether—To Regulate Hemp THC Products After Trump Signs Bill To Delay Scheduled Ban appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

A New Hampshire Democratic candidate for governor says the state should legalize marijuana and stop adding revenue to the coffers of its neighbors that have enacted the reform. “We do need an additional revenue source, and there’s one sitting right out there: the legalization of cannabis,” Cinde Warmington, the sole Democrat running for her party’s nomination to challenge incumbent Gov. Kelly Ayotte (R), said at a town hall event on Wednesday. “There is no reason why the citizens of New Hampshire should be driving across state borders to pay taxes to Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine to purchase a product that they obviously have stated that they want to have access to in our state,” she said. “We need to get that done.” Ayotte, who is up for reelection as governor this year, opposes marijuana legalization and recently vetoed legislation to allow businesses in the state’s existing medical cannabis program to cultivate in greenhouses. Her veto was overridden by lawmakers last month, however, and now the medical marijuana cultivation measure has become law despite her objections. In June, Warmington criticized Ayotte’s veto of the medical marijuana proposal. “Come on, Kelly. Shouldn’t we be trying to make health care more affordable for Granite Staters, not less?” said in a video posted to social media. “This bill would have made medical cannabis more affordable and more accessible to Granite Staters who really need it, and she vetoed it,” Warmington said. “But honestly, this is what we’ve come to expect from Kelly Ayotte. Look what she did to the Medicaid premiums. She increased them by up to $270 a month on the most vulnerable Granite Staters. She increased prescription co-pays when other costs are already going through the roof.” “New Hampshire deserves a governor who will fight to make sure we have lower health care costs and that health care is more accessible,” the Democratic candidate, who previously served as a member of the New Hampshire Executive Council, said. “That’s the bottom line.” In a veto statement on the medical marijuana greenhouse bill, the governor simply said, “I do not support expanding the cultivation of marijuana in our state.” — 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. — Ayotte has separately threatened to veto any marijuana legalization bill that reaches her desk. The governor said last year that her position on the reform would not change even as the federal government moved forward with rescheduling the plant. In 2024, then-Gov. Chris Sununu (R) vetoed a similar proposal to allow cannabis businesses to cultivate in greenhouses. The House had enough votes to override that action, but the Senate did not. The post New Hampshire Should Legalize Marijuana And Stop Sending Money To Neighboring States, Democrat Running For Governor Says appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net