At long last, Wisconsin has an opportunity to join the 40 other states that allow medical cannabis! Senate President Mary Felzkowski (R) recently filed a medical cannabis bill, along with two Republican cosponsors. There’s a narrow window to get the bill done, and we need all hands on deck to make it happen! If you live in Wisconsin, let your state rep and senator know it’s past time to allow patients to relieve their suffering with medical cannabis. If you have a personal connection to the issue…

Nebraska’s emergency rules for medical cannabis have gotten even worse in their latest iteration. After successfully demanding that regulators add a hard cap on medical cannabis plants, Gov. Jim Pillen (R) signed new emergency regulations into law on September 9. As emergency rules, these will need to be replaced with permanent rules.  Outrageously, the emergency rules ban the sale of all edibles, in addition to raw flower and vaporization products. They cap the total number of growers at four and…

On September 1, HB 46 took effect, significantly expanding the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP), Texas’ restrictive medical cannabis law. Some parts of the law, however, required administrative rulemaking to implement: The Department of Public Safety (DPS) has proposed rules to license more dispensing organizations and to allow satellite locations.    The Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has proposed rules including to create processes for requesting approval of devices for non-smoked…

It is more important than ever for constituents to reach out to their legislators and voice support for medical cannabis.

In November, more than 70% of Nebraska voters legalized the medical use of cannabis for any condition where the practitioner believes “the potential benefits of cannabis outweigh the potential harms.”

After letting advocates down on cannabis legalization and decriminalization earlier this year, the Hawai’i Legislature has the opportunity to advance cannabis justice and liberty in the context of medical cannabis.

Two bills, HB 230 and SB 269, are advancing through the New Mexico legislature to clarify employment protections for medical cannabis patients.

We are thrilled to announce that the bill to eliminate the affirmative defense for unregistered patients (HB 1124) was killed!

The Arkansas Medical Cannabis Amendment of 2024 language, submitted by Arkansans for Medical Access, was rejected by Attorney General Tim Griffin (R) on January 29.

With the end of the 2022 legislative session fast approaching, time is critical to urge the Senate to get Kansans access to safe and legal medical cannabis. In May 2021, the Kansas House of Representatives passed a medical cannabis bill, 79-42. The bill stalled in the Senate. In March of this year, Sen. Robert Olson introduced SB 560 in an effort to revive the efforts to create a medical program. Eventually, the language was adopted into SB 12, previously passed legislation.