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California’s attorney general says Indian tribes cannot independently engage in marijuana commerce with licensed cannabis businesses without first obtaining their own commercial license from state officials. Assemblymember Anamarie Avila Farias (D) had requested the opinion from Attorney General Rob Bonta’s (D) office as a bill moves through the Assembly to authorize state-licensed marijuana businesses to buy and sell products from operators licensed by tribal governments within California’s borders. That legislation, from Assemblymember Gregg Hart (D), was amended to make it so the governor would be allowed to enter into agreements with federally recognized Indian tribes to engage in intrastate cannabis commerce with state licensees, pending “federal approval or toleration.” It would build upon an existing law that empowers the governor to authorize interstate cannabis commerce, with exports and imports between businesses licensed in California and those licensed in other states, if they meet certain regulatory standards and the activity is sanctioned by the federal government. Bonta’s office has previously determined that no such federal permission exists to allow for such agreements, but advocates have recently raised questions about whether that could change given the Trump administration’s move to reschedule medical marijuana in legal states. In any case, the Hart bill to expand the law with the tribal provisions passed the Assembly in a 77-0 vote last week, sending it to the Senate. And in the interim, the state attorney general’s office on Thursday responded to Avila Farias’s related legal question. “May a federally recognized Indian tribe located exclusively within the exterior boundaries of the State of California conduct intrastate commercial cannabis activity with state licensees off tribal lands without obtaining a commercial cannabis license from the California Department of Cannabis Control, if the tribe has adopted laws substantially comparable to California’s cannabis regulatory framework?” the assemblywoman asked the office. In short, Bonta’s office said, the answer is “No.” “With limited exceptions, California law requires every entity that engages in intrastate commercial cannabis activity with California licensees to hold a license issued by the Department of Cannabis Control,” it said. “To engage in such activity off tribal lands, a tribe must hold a California commercial cannabis license.” “As discussed, cannabis is a controlled substance, and cannabis activity remains illegal outside of the [state regulatory] framework,” the attorney general’s office said. “That framework generally requires all commercial cannabis activity to occur only between California licensees. And a licensee who operates contrary to the law may face civil or criminal penalties. In short, state law does not allow a California cannabis licensee to lawfully conduct commercial cannabis activity with an entity who holds a commercial cannabis license issued by a tribal authority instead of the state.” The opinion also notes that current state law “expressly contemplates tribal participation in the commercial cannabis market as California licensees,” permitting tribes to engage in cannabis commerce with state licensees if they themselves are licensed by DCC. That policy “reinforces our conclusion that tribes without a state license may not engage in commercial cannabis activities.” “For these reasons, we conclude that tribes must obtain a license from the Department of Cannabis Control to engage in commercial cannabis activity with California cannabis licensees off tribal lands,” the opinion concludes. As previously noted, Bonta’s office in 2023 determined that California could put itself and its employees at “significant legal risk” of federal enforcement action if it were to authorize interstate marijuana commerce. The opinion came in response to a request that year from DCC, which sought the attorney general’s assessment of potential liability for permitting interstate commerce under the law Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed in 2022. While DCC argued in its request that the state would not find itself at substantial legal risk for allowing the activity, the attorney general’s opinion said it could not rule out that possibility given the threat of federal preemption under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Asked whether the department planned to request a follow-up review from the state attorney general’s office of the legality of the commerce agreements since President Donald Trump’s Justice Department moved forward with federal rescheduling, a DCC spokesperson told Marijuana Moment that it hasn’t taken such action yet. “Before taking any action related to interstate commerce, we are awaiting definitive guidance from the federal government,” the spokesperson said on Friday. DCC has, however, taken steps to help the state’s marijuana businesses take advantage of federal tax and other benefits under Trump administration’s rescheduling move. Specifically, DCC recently proposed emergency regulations to let businesses with current licenses covering both medical and recreational marijuana secure a secondary license through a streamlined process to separate out the segments of their operations in light of the fact that the federal scheduling change currently only covers medical cannabis. In a prior rescheduling-related cannabis update, DCC announced that cultivation licensees “no longer need to wait until renewal to request a change to their adult-use (A) or medicinal-use (M) designation.” Additionally, DCC no longer requires a new local authorization for requests that change a license to medical designation only or add a medical designation to an existing adult-use designation. Separately, state lawmakers this session are advancing legislation to allow marijuana retailers to offer drive-thru windows to serve customers. Newsom, meanwhile, recently took credit for helping to lead the push for the state to legalize marijuana and discussed his own limited experience with using cannabis. In October, however, the governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed certain marijuana microbusinesses to ship medical cannabis products directly to patients via common carriers like FedEx and UPS, stating that the proposal “would be burdensome and overly complex to administer.” Newsom did sign a bill earlier that month aimed at streamlining research on marijuana and psychedelics. In September, the governor also signed a measure into law to put a pause on a recently enacted tax hike on marijuana products. California officials recently awarded nearly $30 million in grants for marijuana-focused academic research projects. Meanwhile, California isn’t the only state that’s contemplated the possibility of interstate marijuana commerce in recent years. Oregon and Washington State have also passed laws allowing officials to enter into cross-border cannabis trade agreements with other states, although those state laws both require some form of federal reform or guidance to proceed. The post California Indian Tribes Can’t Participate In Statewide Marijuana Industry Without Getting Their Own Licenses, Attorney General Says appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

The Trump administration’s move to federally reschedule marijuana is “politically good” for efforts to legalize cannabis at the state level in Pennsylvania, a senator says, because it could “create a permission structure for Republicans” to embrace the reform. “I think that Democrats are largely very supportive of legalization. I think that the reticence, where it exists, is largely within Republican, more conservative circles,” Sen. Sharif Street (D) said in an interview published by City & State Pennsylvania on Friday. “The Trump administration—a Republican administration—signaling that it believes it either is or should be rescheduled, depending on how you interpret what he did, certainly creates political cover for Republicans who may want to move forward.” “They can say, ‘Look, even the Trump administration is supportive of rescheduling,'” the Democratic senator said, of his colleagues across the aisle.” So if you are a Pennsylvania state senator in a very red district…it makes it a lot easier for them to advance something that’s commonsense legislation. From that perspective, it’s very helpful politically, because he is signaling to the portion of the population that has been the most resistant that this is a good idea and important.” Under an order issued by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in April, marijuana products regulated under state medical cannabis programs such as the one that exists in Illinois immediately moved from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to Schedule III. An administrative hearing later this month will consider this issue of broader marijuana rescheduling. In addition to creating “more access and fewer restrictions” for state-licensed businesses, as well as allowing them to take tax deductions that they are currently barred from under federal law, Street said the Department of Justice’s move will be “politically good” and “could create a permission structure for Republicans who already believe this should be legalized to move forward with the legalization of recreational adult use.” But the state lawmaker also cautioned that the way federal rescheduling is being carried out has “created some irregularities” and falls short of broader reforms that are needed—including full descheduling of cannabis from the CSA. “Is there a statement from the Justice Department committing to do nonprosecutions with respect to certain kinds of banking transactions that existed in previous administrations with respect to safe harbor? Is there a provision in it from the Justice Department that directs the FBI and interstate law enforcement not to enforce if there is transportation across state lines? If those directives exist, we’d have to look at how the banking and financial industry reacts to whatever language they put out, because that would have real-world implications for whether these transactions can truly take place across state lines.” “Politically, I think it’s a good thing. I think operationally, it’s very much yet to be seen,” Street said. “This administration is unpredictable, and it’s unclear what this means in terms of their enforcement. It’s unclear how the banking community, for instance, will trust this as it relates to safe harbor provisions.” As the state level, the lawmaker said he would prefer for the Pennsylvania legislature to move forward with “comprehensive” marijuana legalization as “the right way to go,” but he also backs more incremental reforms that may have more traction with GOP colleagues such as proposals to create a cannabis and hemp regulatory body, to expunge and seal past conviction records and to protect consumers from being charged with driving under the influence when they are not actually impaired. “There are a number of things you could do as standalones,” he said. “I think it’s best that we get it done in a comprehensive bill.” Meanwhile, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) has repeatedly called on lawmakers to send him a marijuana legalization bill and for the last several years has included the reform in his budget requests to the legislature. The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill last year to end prohibition, but the Republican-controlled Senate has not followed suit. Republican gubernatorial nominee Stacy Garrity, who is running against Shapiro, recently pledged to veto a marijuana legalization bill if lawmakers ever sent one to her desk—though she added that she doesn’t think the reform stands a chance of making it that far in the state. “I don’t support legalizing recreational marijuana,” she said. “Recreational marijuana will not end up in the budget. They’re never going to pass it…not as long as Senate Republicans are in control of the Senate.” Her running mate for lieutenant governor, Jason Richey, claimed that legalizing marijuana would be “catastrophic” for the state, arguing it would increase the size of the illegal market, undermine job creation and harm public health. A spokesperson in the governor’s office said the Trump administration’s federal marijuana rescheduling move is an “important step” that “adds support” to his push to legalize cannabis in the state. The governor also used this year’s unofficial cannabis holiday 4/20 as an opportunity to press lawmakers once again to send him a bill to legalize marijuana. “Pennsylvanians who want to buy recreational marijuana are already driving across the border to one of our neighboring states who’ve legalized it,” Shapiro said in a social media post that day. “That’s hundreds of millions in revenue going out of state instead of being spent here in Pennsylvania.” In April, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed budget legislation proposed by Shapiro that relies on revenue that would be generated from recreational marijuana sales, which has yet to be legalized in the state. The governor earlier this year, as he has in past years, included cannabis legalization and the resulting expected revenue in his budget request. The $53.2 billion budget legislation, which doesn’t itself include provisions to actually legalize marijuana even as it contemplates allocating money that would result from it, now heads to the Senate for consideration. The House of Representatives last year passed a bill to legalize marijuana and put sales in state-owned dispensaries, but the Republican Senate majority has criticized that plan while also not advancing a cannabis legalization model of its own. Separately this session, lawmakers have advanced a bill to allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis in hospitals and other healthcare facilities The legislative developments come as a recent poll shows that seven out of ten Pennsylvania likely voters support legalizing adult-use marijuana—including majority backing for the reform across party lines. When asked whether they “support or oppose the regulation and taxation of legal cannabis for use by adults 21 and older in Pennsylvania,” 69 percent of respondents said yes. Support was strongest from Democrats, at 72 percent, but also includes 67 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of independents. Meanwhile, Shapiro is continuing to pressure on lawmakers to send him a bill to legalize marijuana in the state, saying that doing so would generate new revenue that could be invested in key programs. “While some in Harrisburg claim we can’t afford to make bigger investments in our kids, public safety, and our economy, know this: If we legalized and regulated adult-use cannabis, we’d bring in $1.3 BILLION in revenue for our Commonwealth over the first five years,” the governor said in another recent social media post. “Those are dollars that can be invested back into our people and our communities,” he said. “Stop with the excuses. Let’s get this done.” The state’s Independent Fiscal Office (IFO) reported in February that legalizing cannabis in Pennsylvania would generate nearly half a billion dollars in annual revenue by 2028, an estimate that is a significantly larger cash windfall compared to projections from Shapiro’s own office. With a proposed 20 percent wholesale cannabis excise tax, 6 percent state sales tax for retail and licensing fees, IFO said the governor’s legalization plan would generate $140 million in tax revenue in the first year of implementation from 2027-2028 and increase to $432 million by 2030-2031. That’s a much higher revenue estimate than what the governor’s office put forward in the latest executive budget. According to his office’s analysis, legalization would generate about $36.9 million in tax dollars in its first year from a 20 percent wholesale tax on marijuana—rising gradually to $223.8 million by 2030-2031. In February, a coalition of drug policy and civil liberties organizations urged Shapiro to play a leadership role in convening legislative leaders to get the job done on cannabis legalization this session. The Senate Law and Justice Committee last month amended and approved a bill to create a Cannabis Control Board (CCB) to oversee the state’s medical marijuana program and intoxicating hemp products and that could eventually regulate adult-use cannabis if it is legalized in the state. The post Legalizing Marijuana In Pennsylvania Will Be ‘A Lot Easier’ Now That Trump Federally Rescheduled It, Senator Says appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

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Louisiana lawmakers have sent the governor a bill to create a psychedelic-assisted therapy pilot program, using opioid settlement dollars to fund clinical trials aimed at developing alternative treatments such as psilocybin, ibogaine and MDMA. The Senate signed off the final version of the proposal from Sen. Patrick McMath (R) on Friday in a unanimous 35-0 vote and the House of Representatives’s tally to approve it was 97-0 on Sunday. The House last month added MDMA to the scope of the original Senate legislation, and also made technical changes to the text. The Senate objected, however, to what supporters said was an error in the revised version, and members requested that the measure be sent to a bicameral conference committee, where that was resolved before the corrected bill came back to the floor of both chambers for final votes. The psychedelics legislation now heads to the desk of Gov. Jeff Landry (R) for consideration. Rep. Neil Riser (R), who presented the legislation to the House, said previously that the amendment adding MDMA “put us in positive correlation” with a psychedelics executive order recently signed by President Donald Trump “so that we can look at all different alternatives, including those that are beyond ibogaine that were listed it in the executive order.” He discussed psychedelics as a much-needed alternative treatment option for military veterans and others dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), saying that “for every soldier that’s killed in action, five commit suicide when they get home.” “So clearly, the best methodology of treatment that we’ve been using at the [Department of Veterans Affairs] or elsewhere really does not work,” he said. “There’s also the firemen and police officers that suffer from this post-traumatic stress.” Riser told colleagues that “you’ll look back on a lot of pieces of legislation that you voted on and voted for.” “This will be a piece of legislation that you will truly be proud to know that you change people’s lives,” he said. If the legislation is enacted into law, the psychedelics program would be overseen by the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH), which would be responsible for facilitating clinical trials involving substances that hold therapeutic potential. The bill says that eligible participants would include people with opioid use disorders, co-occurring substance use disorders and treatment-resistant neurological or mental health conditions. Any studies would need to go though the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigational drug approval process. Researchers would also need to be permitted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to conduct trials involving the Schedule I controlled substances. Patients participating in the studies would need to go through mental and physical health screening, and researchers would also be required to develop processes that ensure safety and compliance, with adverse event reporting rules, training and licensing for therapists and policies for tracking and handling the psychedelics. There are also provisions authorizing academic institutions to collaborate in the clinical trials to bolster FDA approval prospects to develop prescription drugs based on psychedelics. Researchers would also be encouraged to collaborate with institutions in other states that have similar programs in place. If a drug is approved and developed as a result of the pilot program clinical trials, there would be a revenue sharing requirement. Under the bill as amended on the House floor, it says that “not less than a two and one-half percent of net sales” would go to the state, though a prior committee amendment had put that amount at 20 percent. Under SB 43 as amended, Louisiana would participate in a national consortium for research and drug development. If a therapy does gain FDA approval, revenue tied to the intellectual property rights of that drug would go to the consortium (except for the portion specifically earmarked for Louisiana). Last year, McMath also sponsored a resolution approved by the full chamber that called for the establishment of a task force to study and make recommendations on the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelics for veterans. — 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. — Separately, the legislature also recently sent Landry a bill to let patients with terminal and irreversible conditions use medical marijuana in hospitals. At the same time, however, advocates are alarmed that lawmaker passed, and the governor signed, legislation that threatens to send people to jail for up to one year if they smoke marijuana within 2,000 feet of a school property—including a college campus. Separately, a lawmaker recently filed a proposal that would create a new state task force to “study and develop findings and recommendations regarding the potential legalization of recreational marijuana.” Another Louisiana lawmaker, meanwhile, recently introduced a bill to create an adult-use marijuana legalization pilot program in the state to determine whether the reform should eventually be expanded and permanently codified. Rep. Candace Newell (D)—who has long championed legislation to end cannabis criminalization and filed a similar legal marijuana pilot program measure last session—is sponsoring what’s titled the “Adult-Use Cannabis Pilot Program Regulation and Enforcement Act.” Getting the bill across the finish line could prove complicated in the conservative legislature, however. Newell’s earlier version of the pilot program legislation didn’t advance to enactment last year, and lawmakers that session also rejected other marijuana reform proposals such as one that would have established a tax system to prepare the eventual legalization of adult-use cannabis. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia/Mushroom Observer. The post Louisiana Lawmakers Pass Bill To Create Psychedelic Therapy Pilot Program Funded By Opioid Settlement Dollars, Sending It To Governor appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

A Republican member of Congress says that he opposes marijuana legalization, claiming that people who live in states that have enacted the reform have told him it’s “the worst thing they’ve ever seen happen.” Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) was answering a question from a constituent at town hall meeting on Tuesday who cited his prior opposition to medical marijuana as a Nebraska state lawmaker and asked, “Why do you want medical cannabis patients like myself and so many others in this room to die?” “This goes without saying, but I do not want you to die,” Flood responded. “I have had a long-held opinion that medical marijuana is the next step to everybody using marijuana.” “When I, when I talk to people on the East and West Coast, they tell me it’s the worst thing they’ve ever seen happen in their home state,” the GOP congressman claimed. While he maintains his personal opposition, Flood said he does have a “caveat” to his position. “We had a vote on that. The people decided to do it. That is the law in Nebraska, and it has to be followed,” he said, referring to voters’ approval of a pair of medical cannabis legalization ballot initiatives in 2024. “I disagree with the issue, but the voters voted, and they have voted to approve it.” Still, the lawmaker said he hopes that “someday we see the right thing and maybe reverse course.” “I have met a lot of people that have moved into this district from states like Colorado, because their schools, their communities, their police—they are hurting in places that have expanded marijuana use,” he said. At a separate recent town hall meeting, Flood told another constituent that “weed is not medicine.” “We will regret that vote. We will regret that decision,” he said. “This is not going to be good for children and generations of children…but it is the law, so it should be enforced.” Despite Flood’s articulation of respect for the will of the electorate, state officials in Nebraska have slowed implementation and sought to scale back the scope of the voter-approved reforms. And until recently, the state was left out of the scope of longstanding federal legislation that protects state medical cannabis laws from federal interference. Flood, for his part, signed onto a letter late last year urging President Donald Trump not to federally reschedule marijuana. Crista Eggers, the executive director of Nebraskans for Medical Marijuana, confronted Flood after this week’s town hall, asking, “Are you going to continue opposing it as you did with a letter in December of last year to oppose the federal rescheduling that has now happened?” “If the voters want something that I disagree with, they choose to do it. It should be carried out the way that it was supposed to be carried out without undue delay,” Flood said, according to Nebraska Public Media. “I am going to do nothing on the state level, because it is the law of the land in the state of Nebraska. I am not going to use my advocacy efforts to help reclassify marijuana at the federal level,” Photo courtesy of Philip Steffan. The post Marijuana Legalization Is ‘The Worst Thing’ That’s Ever Happened To States That Enacted It, GOP Congressman Says appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

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LA gov signs marijuana penalty bill; HI gun denials for cannabis; Study: Cannabinoids for cancer treatment; States want federal rescheduling guidance 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… Free to read (but not free to produce)! We’re proud of our newsletter and the reporting we publish at Marijuana Moment, and we’re happy to provide it for free. But it takes a lot of work and resources to make this happen. 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“Our focus was to faithfully implement the framework enacted by the general assembly.” By Adam Friedman, Tennessee Lookout A combination of state and federal rules are going to reshape Tennessee’s once-burgeoning hemp industry starting in July. Most of Tennessee’s most popular hemp-derived cannabis products, like THCA, will be illegal to sell as the Tennessee Alcoholic Beverage Commission assumes full regulatory control of hemp and begins enforcing a ban passed in 2025 by state lawmakers. The commission became the state agency responsible for hemp at the start of the year but a last-minute deal allowed companies operating under the old regulatory framework to continue selling products like THCA until June 30. Officials with the Alcoholic Beverage Commission appeared before the legislature’s government operations committee in May to finalize the rules, acknowledging that most of the public comments focused on frustrations with the THCA ban. “Our focus was to faithfully implement the framework enacted by the general assembly,” said Russell Thomas, the executive director of the commission. After Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, new marijuana-like products were sold in states that hadn’t already legalized it. These new, mostly smokable, drinkable and edible consumer items are derived from hemp, which allowed them to avoid Tennessee’s ban on THC products, but still produce a similar type of high. The most glaring loophole was THCA. When burned, THCA essentially turns into THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that is illegal in Tennessee. THCA, because it comes from hemp, technically has a THC content below the state’s previous legal threshold. The industry quickly grew in Tennessee, with stores popping up across the state to sell the products. But starting in 2022, state Republican lawmakers began trying to rein in the industry, in part because at one point there were no age restrictions on who could buy it. Initial outright bans proposed by lawmakers failed to pass the legislature, in part due to financial concerns. In 2022, the state’s legislative fiscal review committee estimated that hemp products had an economic impact of $180 million. But marijuana prohibitionist lawmakers eventually got their way in May 2025, passing legislation to close the THCA loophole. U.S. Congress followed suit, passing a law in November 2025 to close the THCA loophole nationally by 2026. Industry experts estimated that 75 percent of hemp sales come from THCA, and expect that once the ban fully goes into effect on July 1, it will be a death blow to the industry. Rep. John Crawford, a Kingsport Republican, said during the hearing that the new rules are likely to put a wholesaler in his district out of business. ”I have a really hard time with that we gave them permission over the last year, and now we’re taking that back,” Crawford said. The ban is also expected to impact the state’s budget, where officials have already reduced this year’s hemp wholesale tax projections from more than $55 million to less than $10 million. Hanging over the whole hemp conversation is a move by President Donald Trump’s administration to reclassify marijuana in April from Schedule I, considered a dangerous addictive drug to Schedule III, recognizing its potential medical benefits. Tennessee doesn’t have a medical marijuana program, but did have a provision in law requiring the health department to review its options if marijuana were ever reclassified. But Republican lawmakers passed a bill this year removing that provision and requiring the legislature to pass its own law creating any medical marijuana program. Proposals for a medical marijuana program in Tennessee are expected to be proposed during the next legislative session in January. This story was first published by Tennessee Lookout. The post Tennessee Will Make It Illegal To Sell THCA And Other Hemp Products Starting On July 1 Under Newly Finalized Rules appeared first on Marijuana Moment. View the live link on MarijuanaMoment.net

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