LATEST ALERTSUruguay: National elections will be held on Sunday (24th November) to determine the next president. Yamandu Orsi of the leftist Broad Front (Frente Amplio)
Brazil: The Superior Court of Justice has unanimously decided to authorise the import of seeds, cultivation, industrialisation and commercialisation of cannabis plants of up
US - Texas: A number of bills have been introduced that would expand the medical cannabis programme in Texas. Senate Bill (SB) 170
US - Texas: House Bill (HB) 1113, which would control the production and regulation of hemp in Texas, has been introduced. The bill would
US - Texas: A number of bills have been introduced relating to recreational cannabis. House Bill (HB) 1208 would legalise recreational cannabis and establish a
Brazil: The Supreme Court will decide whether the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) exceeded its powers when it banned the sale of medical cannabis-based products
US - Ohio: Senate Bill (SB) 326, which would ban the sale of intoxicating hemp products in Ohio, has been introduced. SB 326
US - South Dakota: South Dakota voters rejected measure 29, which would have legalised recreational cannabis in the state, with 57% casting ballots in
US - Nebraska: Nebraska voters supported a pair of statutory initiatives to legalise medical cannabis and establish regulations for the industry, with 71%
US - Florida: Amendment 3, which would have legalised recreational cannabis in the state, failed to get the required 60% voter support. The initiative
US - Federal: Today, voters in Florida, North Dakota and South Dakota will vote on ballot initiatives to legalise recreational cannabis in their states while those in Nebraska will vote
Brazil: The National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) board of directors has approved the prescription of cannabis-based products for veterinary use. Qualified veterinarians can prescribe registered
US - Arizona: The Arizona Dispensaries Association (ADA) has announced that starting 1st November 2024, the state will begin to allow recreational cannabis deliveries. Previously,
US - Federal: Vice-president Kamala Harris has shared a list of her key priorities for what she hopes to accomplish if elected into
Costa Rica: On 18th October the regulations to law 10113, which regulated the medical and industrial use of cannabis, were published in the
Costa Rica: Pharmacies will start selling the first medical cannabis products in January 2025, press reports. According to Thomas McCullen, executive director of the
US - Arkansas: The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected the state’s “Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2024”, stating that any vote for the proposed amendment would
Panama: The minister of health, Fernando Boyd Galindo, has said that the implementation of the legal framework for medical cannabis could take place in
US - Federal: Vice-president Kamala Harris has unveiled her cannabis legalisation plan as part of her 2024 presidential campaign. Harris said that, if
Panama: A bill to regulate the production, marketing and export of hemp with a maximum of 1% THC was approved in the first debate. The bill will now
Uruguay: A new, more potent cannabis variant, epsilon, will be sold in pharmacies beginning today, press reports. In September, the Institute for the Regulation
US - California: Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge rejected an attempt by industry stakeholders to block new California regulations banning ingestible hemp
Costa Rica: The government has introduced an amendment to law 10066, which regulates e-cigarettes with and without nicotine and heated tobacco. The proposed
US - New Jersey: A New Jersey Federal District Court entered an order largely granting a request to invalidate New Jersey’s recent amendments to its hemp laws,
US - Tennessee: The Tennessee Department of Agriculture has published final rules on hemp products that will make one popular hemp product illegal at
Panama: A bill to regulate the production, marketing and export of hemp with a maximum of 1% THC was discussed in the first debate in the
Costa Rica: The Constitutional Court ordered the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock to regulate law 10113, which governs the
US - Federal: Vice-president Kamala Harris reiterated her support for legalising marijuana (cannabis with more than 0.3% delta-9 THC) for the first time
US - Arkansas: The Arkansas secretary of state has determined that a proposed ballot initiative to increase access to medical cannabis did not gain
US - California: Governor Gavin Newsom has signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 1775, which will allow localities to permit cannabis dispensaries to serve food and non-alcoholic
US - Kentucky: The Kentucky Office of Medical Cannabis has issued its first medical cannabis licence, press reports. The licence was awarded to a
US - Federal: The Cannabinoid Safety and Regulation Act (CSRA) has been introduced in the US Senate by senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley.
US - California: A ban on ingestible hemp products with any detectable amount of THC was approved by the Office of Administrative Law
US - Missouri: The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) will not designate any more intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoid (IHDC) products as adulterated, as ordered
US - Utah: The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food has proposed a rule that would prohibit “artificially derived cannabinoids”, which would specifically include
Uruguay: The Institute for the Regulation and Control of Cannabis (IRCCA) has approved a new variety of recreational cannabis with a higher THC concentration
US - South Carolina: Solicitor general Robert Cook issued an opinion letter finding that non-alcoholic beverages containing up to 0.3% delta-9 THC that
New Jersey: Senate Bill (SB) 3235 has been signed into law by governor Phil Murphy. SB 3235 requires a licence from the Cannabis Regulatory Commission or certain
US - California: Governor Gavin Newsom announced he has issued proposed emergency regulations that would outlaw hemp products with any “detectable amount of total
US - Federal: The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that hemp-derived tetrahydrocannabinol acetate (THCO) meets the federal definition of hemp and is therefore
US - California: The Office of Administrative Law has approved the amendment to Section 4890 in Title 3 of the California Code of Regulations
US - Missouri: The Division of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) has issued a cannabis recall notice saying that the recalled products were not compliantly tracked in the
US - Nebraska: The office of secretary of state Bob Evnen has announced that the statutory measures to legalise medical cannabis have met signature requirements and
US - California: Assembly Bill (AB) 1775 has been passed by the Assembly and now heads to the governor’s desk. AB 1775 would allow
US - Florida: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he believes voters will support a November ballot initiative that would legalise recreational
Colombia: President Gustavo Petro has asked the parliament to support a bill introduced in July that would amend the constitution to legalise recreational
US - Federal: The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has published a notice informing of a public hearing on 2nd December to address the agency’s
US - Missouri: Missouri secretary of state Jay Ashcroft blocked governor Michael Parson’s emergency order banning unregulated hemp-derived intoxicating food products, saying that
