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Nepal to legalise marijuana cultivation for medicinal purposes

May 29, 2024
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Nepal will legalise marijuana cultivation and consumption for medicinal purposes, Finance Minister Barsha Man Pun announced on Tuesday while presenting the government’s budget estimates for the 2024-35 fiscal year. Addressing the joint session of Parliament, Pun said that necessary laws…

Minnesota

State agency approves loan for tribal cannabis facility over board’s recommendation in Minnesota

The Minnesota Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation is moving ahead with a $2.5 million loan to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa to help build a start-up cannabis business on tribal land west of Duluth.…

New Jersey

Two years after first legal cannabis sales, New Jerseyans still seek home cultivation

For the last two years, people have been able to stroll into New Jersey dispensaries to buy weed. But growing your own cannabis plant remains a third-degree felony. Despite a growing number of nearby states legalizing the growing of marijuana plants at home, bills…

Black market marijuana tied to Chinese criminal networks infiltrates Maine

April 17, 2024
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Maine is the newest frontier for the illicit marijuana trade, with potentially hundreds of suspected unlicensed grow houses operating in the state, a CBS News investigation has found. It's part of a larger phenomenon nationwide. Thousands of illegal marijuana farms…

Germany’s plan to liberalize cannabis rules clears its final parliamentary hurdle

The German government's plan to liberalize rules on cannabis cleared its final parliamentary hurdle Friday, paving the way for the possession of limited amounts of marijuana to be decriminalized on April 1. In a second step, “cannabis clubs” that will be allowed…

Morocco celebrates huge cannabis harvest – legally for the first time

March 18, 2024
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Morocco’s first legal cannabis harvest was 294 metric tons in 2023, after the country approved its cultivation and export for medicine and industrial uses, the cannabis regulator has said said. The harvest was made by 32 cooperatives that brought together 430 farmers covering 277…

NYC will soon let you grow marijuana at home. Here are the proposed rules.

January 24, 2024
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New York
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New Yorkers could legally get high off their own supply within a few months. The state's Cannabis Control Board will consider rules on Wednesday that would allow residents to grow their own weed at home. The board will vote on…

Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’

January 17, 2024
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Alabama
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Leon Hotchkiss, now 68, remains behind bars in Alabama, spending decades imprisoned for growing pot. Authorities seized about five and half pounds of the plant on his property in Baldwin County, allowing authorities to charge him under the state’s marijuana…

Oklahoma cracks down on marijuana grow facilities violating signage rules

November 9, 2023
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The state’s crackdown on marijuana facilities that violate state law includes signs that don’t meet legal standards. The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority has filed 165 petitions for revocation against licensed grow facilities for failure to have signage required by law, the agency…

Is two too many? Second company seeks state financial assistance to grow marijuana on Minnesota’s Iron Range

November 7, 2023
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Minnesota
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A second company that wants to grow cannabis on the Iron Range in time for the beginning of retail sales in the spring of 2025 has requested financial help from the state agency charged with spurring economic development in the…

Minnesota legalized marijuana. Now it’s giving a Missouri-based company up to $15 million in forgivable loans to grow it on the Iron Range

October 18, 2023
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Minnesota
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A Missouri-based cannabis company on Tuesday scored a major investor for a project to build a large grow operation in Grand Rapids: the state of Minnesota. The Department of Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation, a state agency charged with reinvesting…

Brazil court to rule on cannabis cultivation, may open door to planting

March 21, 2023
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A Brazilian appeals court has agreed to rule on whether companies and farmers can plant cannabis in the country, which could open the door to legal cultivation for medicinal and industrial purposes after legislative efforts stalled in recent years. The…

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Louisiana’s largest medical marijuana farm doubles weed growing capacity

February 9, 2023
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Louisiana
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Louisiana's largest medical marijuana producer is doubling its cannabis growing space in 2023, citing projections for higher demand and new laws it believes have streamlined regulations. Good Day Farm, the private partner of the LSU AgCenter, is adding 40,000 square…

How falling pot prices killed a 3rd generation family pot farm in California

December 14, 2022
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Brandon Wheeler has grown pot professionally for 20 years. His parents grew pot before him, and so did his grandparents. Despite these deep roots in the industry, he still felt a weight lift when he pulled his last pot plants…

Does Kentucky really grow more marijuana than any other state?

December 6, 2022
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Kentucky
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From decades-old news articles to political talking points to social media comment sections, conversations about marijuana in Kentucky bring an oft-repeated claim. Kentucky produces more cannabis than any other state, the claim goes, making the illegal drug the Bluegrass State’s…