Ohio’s voter-approved initiative legalizing adult-use cannabis officially went into effect as it was written on Thursday morning. However, the program could soon receive a makeover as lawmakers in the statehouse continue to negotiate over some of the measure’s biggest items. The Ohio State Senate on Wednesday passed a slew of …

New York-based Curaleaf Holdings Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) has won “conditional approval” from Canadian securities regulators to uplist its shares to the Toronto Stock Exchange, the company announced Thursday. “We are now one step closer to accessing an even broader set of global institutional investors than we currently have, …

“Today, for the first time since the adoption of federal marijuana prohibition, more US citizens reside in jurisdictions where cannabis is state-legal than live somewhere where it is not,” NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said. The post Ohio: Voter-Approved Legalization Measure Takes Effect appeared first on NORML.

When Congress moved the next farm bill into 2024 as part of a congressional resolution to avert a government shutdown, many viewed it as a setback. But, according Beau Whitney of Whitney Economics, it could provide a boon for the American hemp industry instead. For one, the bought time (through …