Oklahoma is paying a company associated with a political polling firm $300,000 per year to verify signatures for statewide ballot initiatives, leading some to question the fairness of the process by which Oklahomans can vote directly on state issues. Western Petition Systems LLC is now in charge of verifying signatures for State Question 820, which would…

Arkansas Democratic gubernatorial nominee Chris Jones supports a constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in the state and would try to pass marijuana-related criminal justice reforms through the state legislature if he were to take office in January, the candidate said during a phone interview last week. In an interview with Arkansas Cannabiz focused primarily on marijuana…

D.C. regulators will start inspecting marijuana gifting stores in September for health code, tax, and licensing violations, potentially increasing the pressure on businesses that some local legislators say have been skirting the law and undermining the city’s regulated medical marijuana dispensaries. According to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration, which regulates medical marijuana sales in D.C. and would…

LAST week Switzerland became the latest in a string of European countries to relax its restrictive access to medical cannabis for both patients and businesses. Although the country has one of the oldest medical cannabis schemes and most developed CBD industries, patient numbers appear to have been in decline for nearly half a decade, as…