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06/25/2022 04:30 AM EDT Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer doesn’t have the votes to pass a sweeping marijuana decriminalization bill — despite repeatedly touting his support for ending federal prohibition. That realization is leading Senate Democrats to look for a compromise on weed. In interviews with more than a dozen lawmakers, staffers, advocates and lobbyists, all agreed that in recent weeks the tone has changed on Capitol Hill. Senators previously opposed to anything but a major marijuana decriminalization bill are slowly warming to another option: …

From the outside, Jose Rivas’s gray, one-story office building seems just as unassuming as Woodlake, the small Tulare County City where it’s located. But once you’ve been escorted inside the wrought iron gate and checked in at the security desk, you’ll see a chemistry lab of so many potheads’ dreams: bubbling evaporators, storage tanks of liquid nitrogen, and trays and trays of drying marijuana buds. But Rivas isn’t a pothead – he’s the CEO of a cannabis company known as Premium …

Top Seed Bank to Buy Cannabis Seeds Online Royal King Seeds Royal King Seeds sells premium marijuana seeds of so many different types. Whether you are a pro who has been at this for a while, or someone looking to try this for the first time, there are seeds with your name on them! The site is also a great learning tool. If you don’t know a lot about growing marijuana, this site is full of resources to get you started. …

Cannabis technology company WM Technology is launching an integrated digital payment service for cannabis retailers in Ontario, Canada’s largest adult-use market, with plans to launch in other provinces. Customers of participating retailers will be able to browse cannabis products on WM Technology’s Weedmaps listing platform, then make direct payments to the retailer using Visa or MasterCard, WM Technology announced Thursday morning. The new functionality follows Ontario’s recent move to make permanent cannabis retail delivery and curbside pickup, cementing a temporary program launched early on in …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Almost 182,000 Missourians have a medicinal cannabis card, and recreational could soon be on the horizon. Three measures that would legalize adult-use cannabis had a chance of moving forward this year, but only one seems likely to see the light of day. The group needed at least 180,000 signatures from 6 of the 8 state congressional districts. "We turned in more than double of that so we're very confident that even with a lot of those being invalid, that …

Acreage Holdings Inc. plans to leverage its cannabis medical market presence as adult use sales open up in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, the company’s chief financial officer said. Adult use sales in selected stores opened up in New Jersey on April 21, as a “huge driver” for growth in 2022, plus New York and Connecticut are also readying their markets as well, CFO Steve Goertz said. “The dominos are stacking up very well for us in the Northeast,” Goertz said. Like …

When Germany's new coalition included the legalization of recreational cannabis in its political agenda in late 2021, there were few details on how to regulate the industry. However, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach announced last week that it would start the legal process for cannabis legalization soon. He told German newspaper Handelsblatt he changed his mind on legalization over the past two years, and he now believes the dangers of non-legalization outweigh the risks of recreational cannabis legalization. "I've always been opposed to cannabis legalization, but …