Grown in Oklahoma, Smoked in New York: Illicit Marijuana’s Legal Roots February 24, 2024 AggregatedNews Black Market, New York, Oklahoma 0 Comments In the dead of night last April, state drug agents in Oklahoma intercepted an 18-wheeler rumbling east toward the Arkansas border smuggling 7,000 pounds of marijuana hidden in security camera boxes. The weed was from licensed farms in Oklahoma, according… Read More→
Medical marijuana grows are suing over safety inspection requirements in Oklahoma February 8, 2024 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments Medical marijuana grows in Oklahoma have been told time is up to get in compliance with fire and building codes. The Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control is now refusing to renew their registrations unless they submit proof they… Read More→
Oklahoma cracks down on marijuana grow facilities violating signage rules November 9, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments 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… Read More→
Oklahoma Supreme Court declines challenge to marijuana license fee increases September 14, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments The Oklahoma Supreme Court declined this week to consider a challenge to a bill dramatically raising fees associated with medical marijuana licenses, kicking the lawsuit down to district court in Oklahoma County. The decision not to exercise jurisdiction at this… Read More→
The push for legal weed faces hostile ground in red states July 5, 2023 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Weed legalization advocates are running out of friendly territory. The movement has swept the country over the last decade: Nearly half of Americans now live in a state where anyone at least 21 years old can legally possess and purchase… Read More→
Oklahoma’s medical marijuana agency ‘ready to really get going’ June 22, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments Lawyers for the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority took a seat at one of two tables before a judge as the morning sun splashed through the hexagon-shape windows of a first-floor makeshift courtroom inside the state agency’s building near the state… Read More→
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt vetoed new medical marijuana regulations. What was included in the bill? June 13, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments Gov. Kevin Stitt has vetoed a medical marijuana regulation bill that would have added restrictions on who can get patient cards and how much THC can be in a single serving. The bill also included several other provisions meant to curtail illegal… Read More→
Oklahoma House committee churns through medical marijuana bills April 13, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments Eight Senate medical marijuana bills, including one that would limit the THC content of edibles, advanced through an Oklahoma House of Representatives committee on Wednesday. Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances Committee Chairman T.J. Marti, R-Broken Arrow, carried all but one… Read More→
Bills Cracking Down on Marijuana Alive in Oklahoma Legislature April 10, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments A month after Oklahoma voters defeated recreational marijuana, dozens of bills proposing changes to the state’s five-year-old medical marijuana program remain before lawmakers. Among them are proposals to limit the concentration of THC, the mind-altering chemical in cannabis, and another to… Read More→
Oklahomans head to polls for one issue: legal marijuana March 7, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments Oklahoma voters will decide Tuesday whether to make the state one of the most conservative to green light cannabis use for adults. State Question 820, the result of a signature gathering drive last year, is the only item on the statewide ballot.… Read More→
Pot vote has Oklahoma hungry to rake in green from Texas March 4, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma, Texas 0 Comments Tens of thousands of Texans from the bustling Dallas-Fort Worth area routinely drive across the Red River to gamble in glitzy, Las Vegas-style tribal casinos or to relax at cabins or swim and ski in lakes that dot southern Oklahoma.… Read More→
Will conservative Oklahoma vote to legalize recreational weed? March 2, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments As Oklahomans prepare to vote on legalizing recreational marijuana, supporters say it’s a clear decision to support local businesses and promote social justice reform, while detractors say it’s a weedier situation. Oklahomans will vote on State Question 820 on March 7. If… Read More→
Oklahoma lawmakers, cannabis businesses want more marijuana tracking options this year January 20, 2023 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments Pressure is mounting at the Oklahoma Legislature to rebid a contract with the state's seed-to-sale marijuana tracking system. Lawmakers and cannabis businesses have complained that the current tracking system, implemented by Metrc on behalf of the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority,… Read More→
Oklahoma’s next big election will ask voters to legalize recreational marijuana November 28, 2022 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 0 Comments As the decades-long push to legalize marijuana state-by-state nears the halfway point, Oklahoma could provide an interesting case study when voters decide whether to legalize adult cannabis use in March. Twenty-one states have now legalized recreational marijuana use, including Missouri… Read More→
Gov. Kevin Stitt sets special election for recreational marijuana state question in Oklahoma October 19, 2022 AggregatedNews Oklahoma 1 Comment Gov. Kevin Stitt on Tuesday set a special election for a state question that seeks to legalize recreational marijuana. State Question 820 will be on the March 7 ballot. Last month, the Oklahoma Supreme Court declined to put it on the… Read More→