Where cannabis legalization efforts stand across the country August 3, 2022 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Gains in state legislatures slowed down in 2022, but advocates still have the ballot. State lawmakers are still wary of weed. Last year, four states legalized marijuana through their legislatures. So far in 2022, only one — Rhode Island —… Read More→
Illinois’ top cannabis official Toi Hutchinson leaves post to head national lobbying group that helped draw up law making pot legal in state December 16, 2021 AggregatedNews Industry People 0 Comments The top marijuana official in Illinois, Toi Hutchinson, is leaving her state job to work for the national lobbying group that led the push to legalize cannabis in the state. Hutchinson, who was Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s senior adviser for cannabis… Read More→
Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America December 4, 2018 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 0 Comments By Allen St. Pierre Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring… Read More→
Marijuana Policy Project Adds Three New Members to Board of Directors October 9, 2018 Press Release Industry People, Press Releases 0 Comments PRESS RELEASE The new board members include former Colorado State House Leader and Pueblo County Commissioner Sal Pace, who will also serve as a senior policy advisor; Sheri Orlowitz, a former Justice Department prosecutor and founder of Artemis Holdings Group;… Read More→
Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America September 26, 2018 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 0 Comments Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and… Read More→
Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America July 25, 2018 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 0 Comments Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and… Read More→
Marijuana Policy Project Retains Mason Tvert to Serve as National Spokesperson, Coordinate Media Relations May 18, 2018 Press Release Industry People, Press Releases 0 Comments PRESS RELEASE Tvert, a partner at VS Strategies, co-directed the successful 2012 Colorado legalization initiative campaign and helped pass several successful marijuana policy reforms as MPP’s communications director from 2013-2017 WASHINGTON — The Marijuana Policy Project announced Friday it has retained… Read More→
Smith’s Act of Contrition and the Battle to be “The Voice of the Cannabis Industry” May 1, 2018 Rob Meagher News & Insights, Op-Ed 0 Comments Over the last few weeks, there have been a number of announcements and articles that are connected to the behind the scenes posturing taking place to determine the "Voice of the Cannabis Industry". Two weeks ago, we all read about… Read More→
Conflict of Interest and the Seven Deadly Sins March 6, 2018 Rob Meagher Opinions 0 Comments The Merriam Webster dictionary defines the term conflict of interest as: a conflict between the private interests and the official responsibilities of a person in a position of trust It goes on to include the legal definition of conflict of interest… Read More→
Two Board Members Resign at NCIA January 19, 2018 Rob Meagher News & Insights 0 Comments Breaking News Amid allegations of multiple problems at the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) that went public in the pages of CBE Press over the past couple of weeks, two board members have officially resigned. CBE Press has learned that… Read More→
Feds Can’t Interfere: Appropriations Committee Approves Amendment Again, Adds Two More States July 27, 2017 David Hodes Compliance and Regulations, Policy & Legal 1 Comment In a move closely watched by the cannabis industry, an amendment by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), vice chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was approved Thursday, giving another year of protection from federal interference to medical marijuana businesses in states where… Read More→