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  12. Major alcohol retailers are coming together to encourage Congress to delay the enactment of a law President Donald Trump recently signed that will federally recriminalize hemp-derived THC beverages and other products. The newly launched Beverage Alcohol Merchants Coalition’s (BAMCO) founding members include Total Wine & More, BevMo! by Gopuff, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, Spec’s Wine and Spirits & Finer Foods, as well as a group of hemp product wholesalers. “We know how to sell regulated products,” BAMCO spokesman Jonathan Grella said in a press release. “We do it every day.” The coalition is calling on lawmakers to pass recently introduced legislation, the Hemp Planting Predictability Act, that would give the hemp industry two more years before a federal ban on THC products would take effect—which stakeholders hope will better position them to negotiate a broader regulatory compromise. The law is currently set to become effective this November. “This coalition is here to help policymakers land in the right place—with a pragmatic, responsible approach that voters already understand and support. We’re creating the space for smart regulation by showing broad alignment among consumers, merchants, and experienced operators,” Grella said. BAMCO launches today: Top alcohol merchants united for responsible federal regulation of low-dose adult-use hemp beverages. We know how to sell regulated products—we do it every day—using the proven three-tier system for safe, transparent access.⁰Read: https://t.co/PHhNDlX8VF — Jonathan Grella (@JonathanGrella) January 21, 2026 “This isn’t about delay for delay’s sake—it’s about doing it right,” he said. “The polling is clear. Every day Americans want these products. Businesses want clarity and consistency. And regulators already have a model that works—the three-tier alcohol system.” The coalition says it wants to apply the same regulatory structure that governs beverage alcohol producers, distributors and merchants to hemp drinks “to ensure safe, transparent access.” Other alcohol industry groups such as Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America have also backed regulating hemp products instead of prohibiting them. BAMCO, for its part, says its regulatory priorities include limiting sales to adults over 21, having THC serving limits, mandating testing and labeling, ensuring responsible marketing and directing tax revenue to fund enforcement efforts. It also wants to have a multi-tier system of distribution through licensed retailers and wholesalers while giving states “flexibility layered over a clear federal framework.” The post Alcohol Retailers Push Congress To Delay Hemp THC Ban While Regulations Are Crafted appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net
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It’s the same organization that bankrolled opposition to a 2024 Massachusetts ballot question that sought to open up access to some psychedelic substances, which voters rejected. Massachusetts is not alone as a battleground, either. SAM Action is also the only donor behind a ballot question in Maine this cycle that would similarly prohibit recreational pot use there, as the Portland Press Herald reported. Both campaigns have generated scrutiny over their efforts to gather signatures from voters. In Massachusetts, opponents filed an objection alleging the campaign “obtained signatures fraudulently” by telling voters the measure would provide affordable housing or fund public parks, not that it would ban recreational marijuana. The State Ballot Law Commission heard arguments last week and is expected to rule by Friday. State law empowers the panel to determine whether signatures were placed on a ballot question petition “by fraud,” and its interpretation could set off a lengthier court battle over whether the question can go before voters. Similarly, Mainers have been alleging in recent weeks that they were misled about what the anti-marijuana petition would do when they signed it. Maine’s secretary of state, Shenna Bellows, said she’s received complaints about the topic, adding that she has no enforcement power because, as she put it to lawmakers, “You have a right to lie under the First Amendment.” Wendy Wakeman, a veteran Republican operative who is working as spokesperson for the repeal campaign, said the Massachusetts and Maine questions are “not a coordinated effort” despite funding coming from the same national group. SAM Action is a 501(c)(4) organization, so it’s not required to disclose its donors, leaving unclear exactly who is putting major dollars toward shutting down an industry both Massachusetts and Maine voted nearly a decade ago to legalize. On its website, SAM Action claims affiliation with the nonprofit Smart Approaches to Marijuana group co-founded by former US Rep. Patrick Kennedy—a Democrat who represented Rhode Island, and the son of longtime US Sen. Ted Kennedy—along with former White House Office of National Drug Control Policy advisor Kevin Sabet and David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush who is now a senior editor at The Atlantic. Wakeman declined to comment on SAM Action’s primary donors. “Massachusetts is in the minority of states in the United States in which marijuana is available recreationally,” she told CommonWealth Beacon. “It should be unsurprising that national groups with health concerns are interested in helping Massachusetts craft better, safer marijuana laws.” While marijuana remains illegal under federal law, 24 states, two territories, and Washington, DC, allow recreational marijuana use by adults, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Several others decriminalized the drug without fully legalizing personal, non-medical use. President Trump last year also signed an executive order reclassifying marijuana as a drug with less potential for harm and dependence, signaling a softer position. SAM opposed that move. Voters in the Bay State approved recreational marijuana use in 2016 by a margin of 54 percent to 46 percent. Since then, the industry has generated more than $8 billion in sales. The proposed ballot question would undo legalization of recreational pot use. It would leave the medical marijuana industry in place, but expand civil penalties for public possession above one ounce. Under one common reading, the surge in ballot questions reflects growing discontent with the Legislature and an attempt to circumvent Beacon Hill’s inertia by putting policy changes directly before voters. Most lawmakers are skeptical or outright disdainful of the trend, arguing that initiative petitions are increasingly a tool exploited by well-financed special interests. Disclosures show that for many questions, big-dollar donors and business groups play a critical role, especially early in the cycle when campaigns are trying to get off the ground. All of the $431,000 raised so far to oppose a rent control revival came from the Greater Boston Real Estate Board, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors, NAIOP, and Nordblom Management, plus another $26,600 in in-kind contributions from MassLandlords Inc. Most of the money behind a proposal that would replace the state’s partisan primaries with an all-party primary system has come from wealthy, often politically involved donors who have backgrounds in private equity or investment banking. Randy Peeler, a senior advisor at Berkshire Partners who’s also on the board of a national group that supports primary election reforms, donated $550,000. Andrew Balson of Cove Hill Partners added another $290,000, and Mark Nunnelly, a former Department of Revenue commissioner under Gov. Charlie Baker and Bain Capital managing director, kicked in $250,000. Nine others donated at least $50,000 each, while former gubernatorial candidate Danielle Allen, the effort’s figurehead, added $20,000 of her own. Jesse Littlewood, the campaign manager for the primary-reform question, said he expects small-dollar donations to increase as the race unfolds. “To be in the game of a ballot initiative where you’re playing to win, it requires a significant amount of resources,” Littlewood said. “We are really thankful that individuals have been willing to fund the work to make a better, healthier democracy, and those folks are providing the resources to do it, especially in the very early stages. It doesn’t mean that’s going to be the entirety of our giving, but they helped us get through the narrowest passages.” Some campaigns are leaning on resources from Beacon Hill insiders past and present. A bipartisan effort to rein in the stipend system that significantly boosts pay for some state representatives and senators hauled in $116,000, combining donations and loans, from former Democratic rep. Jonathan Hecht, a frequent progressive critic of the Legislature, and $112,500 from former MassGOP chair Jennifer Nassour. (Nassour is on the board of MassINC, the nonprofit that publishes CommonWealth Beacon.) Other, smaller donations to the stipend-reform effort came from Allen, current MassGOP chair Amy Carnevale, state Auditor Diana DiZoglio (perhaps Beacon Hill’s most vocal legislative skeptic), former Democratic reps. Denise Provost and Jay Kaufman, and former Baker administration budget chief Michael Heffernan. All lawmakers earn the same base salary, but they can receive significantly more in stipends based on leadership or committee positions. Those additional job titles are essentially awarded by the House speaker and Senate president, and critics argue the system creates a financial incentive for lawmakers to fall in line and not break from leadership. Legislative leaders defend the status quo as the same better-pay-for-more-responsibility arrangement common to the private sector. Through the end of 2025, the multitude of campaign committees supporting and opposing the dozen ballot questions in the mix for this November’s elections together raised more than $11.2 million, including both donations and in-kind contributions, and spent more than $8.8 million, according to a CommonWealth Beacon analysis of financial reports filed with regulators. That amount is all but certain to explode as influential groups begin pitching their ideas directly to voters in the run-up to the November election. At this same point in the electoral cycle two years ago, for example, proponents of a question to cease using MCAS standardized test results as a graduation requirement had received a bit more than $1.1 million in in-kind contributions. The opposition at that point did not even have any fundraising to report. But by the time the dust settled in 2024, involved parties had collectively deployed more than $21 million on the politically bruising race. Eleven of the ballot questions on track are newly filed this cycle, while the twelfth — a proposed repeal of the state’s 2024 sweeping gun reform law — originated that year but was not eligible to go before voters until 2026. For most campaigns, early spending focused so far almost entirely on the biggest obstacle en route to the ballot: collecting enough voter signatures. Supporters needed to collect at least 74,574 signatures from registered Massachusetts voters to keep each question in the mix. Organizers will need another, smaller round of signatures later this year to lock in their spots. Most of the campaigns spent at least $750,000 on signature-gathering services, according to their disclosures. But some organizers seem to have secured much better deals than their counterparts to come up with roughly comparable totals of certified signatures. The campaign working to legalize Election Day voter registration, backed by Secretary of State William Galvin, spent $75,000 on signature-gathering with Massachusetts firm SignatureDrive. Another campaign, headed by DiZoglio, that is hoping to subject the Legislature and governor’s office to public records requests spent $150,000 with the same company. Meanwhile, those pushing a question to allow single-family homes to be built on smaller lots spent nearly $1.3 million with SignatureDrive, more than 17 times as much as did Galvin’s team. Some campaigns supplement paid signature collection with volunteer efforts, which defray the total costs, and others lean on influential organizations whose staff signature-gathering work gets counted as in-kind contributions. If all of the questions make the ballot, it would be an even dozen, crushing the record of nine statewide ballot questions in a single year. With so many in the mix, it’s likely that the amount of money spent on electioneering will also reach a new high. The record came in 2022, when campaigns supporting and opposing four measures collectively spent $65.8 million. (Nearly two-thirds of that amount was spent just on the successful ballot question imposing a surtax on wealthy households.) All ballot question campaigns by Tuesday had to file 2025 year-end financial reports. Under state law, the campaigns do not need to submit their next financial disclosures until September, keeping most of the fundraising and spending obscured from public view until close to the election. The Senate last week approved legislation that would require ballot question campaign committees to file financial reports at least monthly in election years. It’s not clear if or when the House will take up the measure. This article first appeared on CommonWealth Beacon and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. The post ‘Dark Money’ Anti-Marijuana Group Is Bankrolling Ballot Measures To Roll Back Legalization In Multiple States, Records Show appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net
  26. Delaware lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis in hospitals and other healthcare facilities. The Senate Health & Social Services Committee held a hearing on the bill, sponsored by Sen. Marie Pinkney (R), on Wednesday. Pinkney, who chairs the panel that approved the measure, said it “basically says that terminally ill patients…have the ability to bring in their medical cannabis that they are already using at home, and they are responsible for storing it.” Under SB 226, patients and their caregivers would be responsible for acquiring and administering medical marijuana, and it would need to be stored securely at all times in a locked container. Smoking or vaping of medical cannabis would be prohibited, so patients would need to consume it via other methods. Healthcare facility officials would need to see a copy of patients’ state medical marijuana registry ID cards, and they would be required to note their use of the drug in medical records. They would also need to “develop and disseminate written policies and procedures for the use of medical marijuana within the health care facility.” Facilities would be able to prohibit medical marijuana use if they determine that such use would have an “adverse impact on the medical care and treatment of the patient or is otherwise contraindicated.” They would also be able to suspend permission to use cannabis if a federal agency such as the U.S. Department of Justice or Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services takes an enforcement action against such use or “issues a rule, guidance, or otherwise provides notification to health care facilities that expressly prohibits the use of medical marijuana in health care facilities.” The right to use medical cannabis under the bill would not apply to patients who are in the emergency department. In response to another senator’s concern, Pinkney agreed to hold the legislation for a vote until after she speaks with the Medical Society of Delaware about its stance on the proposal. Christine O’Brien, a representative of the Delaware Health Care Association, testified in support of the legislation, saying that the group appreciated the sponsor including provisions to address “operational compliance challenges” presented by cannabis use in hospital settings. “Key safeguards were included in the bill that helped to satisfy those concerns that we raised, such as liability protections, the ability of hospital systems to discontinue participation if there is federal scrutiny and discretion of prohibit use when medical marijuana could negatively impact a patient’s care,” she said. — 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. — California and a handful of other states already have laws allowing terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis in healthcare facilities. Known as “Ryan’s Law,” the legislation is partly inspired by the experience of Jim Bartell, whose son died from cancer and was initially denied access to cannabis at a California hospital. The Bartells did eventually find a facility that agreed to allow the treatment, and Jim said Ryan’s quality of life improved dramatically in his final days. “In the invaluable last days as Ryan fought stage 4 pancreatic cancer, I first-handedly experienced the positive impact medical cannabis had on my son’s well-being, as opposed to the harsh effects of opiates,” Bartell said in 2021 when California’s governor signed Ryan’s Law. “Medical cannabis is an excellent option for relieving pain and suffering in those who are terminally-ill, but most importantly it serves to provide compassion, support, and dignity to patients and their families, during their loved-ones’ final days.” “Looking at each other, holding Ryan’s hand and telling him how much I loved him during his final moments would not have been possible without the medical cannabis,” he said. The post Delaware Lawmakers Consider Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use In Hospitals By Terminally Ill Patients appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net
  27. Key Hawaii lawmakers have filed legislation that would put the issue of marijuana legalization on the ballot for voters to decide. The move comes after repeated efforts to legalize cannabis legislatively in recent sessions have demonstrated momentum but failed before reaching the finish line to be enacted into law. If the legislature agrees to the new plan, voters would see this on their November ballots: “Shall the Constitution of the State of Hawaii be amended to: (1) Authorize individuals aged twenty-one and older to use and possess personal-use amounts of cannabis; and (2) Require the legislature to enact laws governing the use, manufacture, distribution, sale, possession, regulation, and taxation of cannabis within the State?” If a majority of voters approved the ballot measure, cannabis legalization would take effect on July 1, 2027. House Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs Committee Chairman David Tarnas (D) and Senate Health and Human Services Committee Chair Joy San Buenaventura (D) are the lead sponsors of the new measures. Tarnas’s House proposal has 13 additional cosponsors. “This is kicking this particular policy decision—very selectively—to the public for a decision,” Tarnas, who has previously sponsored legalization and other marijuana reform bills, said in an interview earlier this month. Karen O’Keefe, state policies director for the Marijuana Policy Project, told Marijuana Moment that “year after year, the Hawai’i Legislature has failed to enact cannabis legalization, despite strong popular support.” “It’s time for legislators to give voters the power to expand their privacy and liberty directly,” she said, While Gov. Josh Green (D) supports legalizing cannabis, and polling has indicated that Hawaiians are ready for the policy change, the new measures signal that the sponsors don’t anticipate that fellow lawmakers will be ready to move forward with a legislative reform this year but may instead be inclined to defer to voters. Putting the measure on the ballot as a constitutional amendment would require a two-thirds vote in each chamber of the legislature. That said, Tarnas and San Buenaventura have also filed separate, more traditional statutory cannabis legalization measures for the 2026 session. House Speaker Nadine Nakamura (D) has acknowledged broad public support for marijuana legalization, but said that some of her chamber’s members from the island of Oahu are not on board with the reform. Hawaii’s Senate last February narrowly defeated a proposal that would have increased fivefold the amount of cannabis that a person could possess without risk of criminal charges. Had the measure become law, it would have increased the amount of cannabis decriminalized in Hawaii from the current 3 grams up to 15 grams. Possession of any amount of marijuana up to that 15-gram limit would have been classified as a civil violation, punishable by a fine of $130. A Senate bill that would have legalized marijuana for adults, meanwhile, ultimately stalled for the session. That measure, SB 1613, failed to make it out of committee by a legislative deadline. While advocates felt there was sufficient support for the legalization proposal in the Senate, it’s widely believed that House lawmakers would have ultimately scuttled the measure, as they did last February with a legalization companion bill, HB 1246. In 2024, a Senate-passed legalization bill also fizzled out in the House. Last year’s House vote to stall the bill came just days after approval from a pair of committees at a joint hearing. Ahead of that hearing, the panels received nearly 300 pages of testimony, including from state agencies, advocacy organizations and members of the public. Green signed separate legislation last year to allow medical marijuana caregivers to grow marijuana on behalf of up to five patients rather than the current one. And in July, the governor signed another bill that establishes a number of new rules around hemp products in Hawaii, including a requirement that distributors and retailers obtain a registration from the Department of Health. Lawmakers also sent a bill to the governor that would help speed the expungement process for people hoping to clear their records of past marijuana-related offenses—a proposal Green signed into law in April. That measure, HB 132, from Tarnas, is intended to expedite expungements happening through a pilot program signed into law in 2024 by Green. Specifically, it will remove a distinction between marijuana and other Schedule V drugs for the purposes of the expungement program. The bill’s proponents said the current wording of the law forces state officials to comb through thousands of criminal records manually in order to identify which are eligible for expungement under the pilot program. Meanwhile, in November, Hawaii officials finalized rules that will allow medical marijuana dispensaries to sell an expanded assortment of products for patients—including dry herb vaporizers, rolling papers and grinders—while revising the state code to clarify that cannabis oils and concentrates can be marketed for inhalation. The department also affirmed its support for federal marijuana rescheduling—a policy change that President Donald Trump ordered to be completed last month but has yet to come to fruition. — 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. — Regulators are also launching a series of courses designed to educate physicians and other healthcare professionals about medical marijuana as the state’s cannabis program expands. The underlying medical marijuana expansion bill signed by the governor in late June, in addition to allowing more patients to more easily access cannabis, also contains a provision that advocates find problematic. Before lawmakers sent the legislation to Green, a conference committee revised the plan, inserting a provision to allow DOH to access medical marijuana patient records held by doctors for any reason whatsoever. This past fall, regulators solicited proposals to assess the state’s current medical marijuana program—and also sought to estimate demand for recreational sales if the state eventually moves forward with adult-use legalization. Some read the move as a sign the regulatory agency saw a need to prepare to the potential reform. The post Hawaii Lawmakers File Bills To Put Marijuana Legalization On The Ballot For Voters To Decide appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net
  28. Washington State lawmakers are again considering legislation to expand the state’s voter-approved marijuana legalization law by allowing recreational consumers to grow their own cannabis plants. Under the new bill from Sens. Rebecca Saldaña (D), Noel Frame (D) and T’wina Nobles (D), adults over 21 years of age would be allowed to cultivate up to six marijuana plants at home. Under SB 6204, no more than 15 cannabis plants could be produced at any one time in a single housing unit, regardless of how many adults live there. People could lawfully keep the marijuana produced by those plants despite the state’s existing one-ounce limit on possession. Property owners would be allowed to prohibit tenants from growing cannabis in rental units, and probation and parole officers would be able to bar people from cultivating marijuana as a condition of their supervised release. Home cultivators would be required to keep plants from public view and grown in such a way that they could not be smelled from public places or private properties of other housing units. Violating those rules would be a class 3 civil infraction. It would be a class 1 civil infraction for a person to grow more than six but fewer than 16 cannabis plants, while it would be a class C felony to produce more than 16 plants. No cannabis plants could be grown in housing units that are used to provide early childhood education and early learning services by a family day care provider. — 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 bill has been referred to the Senate Labor & Commerce Committee. Washington was one of the first U.S. states to legalize adult-use marijuana when voters approved a ballot initiative in 2012. Growing marijuana for personal use without a state medical card, however, has remained a Class C felony, carrying up to five years in prison and up to $10,000 in fines. Legislative efforts to allow personal cultivation stretch back to at least 2015, but so far each has failed. Last year, the House Consumer Protection and Business Committee approved a similar marijuana home cultivation bill but it later stalled before the House Appropriations Committee. The post New Washington Bill Would Legalize Home Cultivation Of Marijuana appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net
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