Nearly 62% of voters in Oklahoma rejected an initiative to legalize adult-use cannabis in a March 7 special election.

Voters in Missouri and Maryland approved adult-use cannabis in the Nov. 8 election, while Arkansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota rejected ballot measures to allow it in their states.

OMI Industries' Laura Haupert recently spoke to Cannabis Products about the odor challenges cannabis producers face and strategies for overcoming them.

President Joe Biden has announced plans to pardon Americans with federal simple marijuana possession convictions and order top officials to review the scheduling of cannabis.

Despite lessening criminal and administrative penalties and depository insurance obstacles, both the SAFE Banking Act and pending state cannabis banking legislation fail to put legal cannabis on an equal footing with other legitimate industries.

Rootwurks, Inc. has launched an e-learning, training, and compliance management platform to help cannabis companies maintain regulatory compliance through interactive education and a user-friendly operational toolkit.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued warning letters to five companies for selling products labeled as containing delta-8-THC in ways that violate the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. 

Under a new budget proposal, New York’s cannabis producers and distributors are set to receive tax breaks despite a federal rule prohibiting them, Bloomberg reported.

With cannabis-derived products outpacing the existing science and imposing massive health concerns, in October 2021 the FDA issued a “Cannabis-derived products data acceleration plan” to detect safety signals and accelerate research studies.

California's Department of Cannabis Control has launched CannaConnect, a new resource to connect cannabis license holders to the tools they need to thrive in the state’s legal cannabis market.