The New York Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) will open applications for adult-use nursery licenses on November 5, 2026, the first nursery license application window since the regulated adult-use ...

For the full breakdown of the current Virginia framework see our FAQ: Virginia Retail Cannabis Law (HB 30): FAQs on Adult-Use Licensing, Taxes and Key Dates. Henrico County released draft zoning rules ...

Virginia’s adult-use market opens to applications on February 1, 2027. The Virginia Cannabis Control Authority will begin issuing licenses on May 1, 2027, with a share of those early licenses reserved ...

At its October 8 meeting, the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) voted to continue to authorize administrative license extensions. The CCC then issued a bulletin adding new eligibility ...

In a sweeping blow to legal consumable hemp industries across the nation, Congress passed a new federal definition of “hemp” on November 12, 2025, which was signed into law by President Donald Trump ...

The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (the “CSA”) divides drugs into five schedules based on potential for abuse and medical value. Marijuana moving from Schedule I (no accepted medical use, high ...

The Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Chief Administrative Law Judge Derek C. Julius stayed the marijuana rescheduling proceeding (DEA Docket No. 1362; Hearing Docket No. 26-96) on September 29.

The Drug Enforcement Administration is scheduled to hold a historic hearing beginning Monday, June 29, 2026, which could extend Schedule III cannabis rescheduling to adult-use marijuana and reshape ...

The Government still has the cleaner path to Schedule III. The opponents, however, may have built the better record for challenging the agency. Testimony in DEA’s marijuana-rescheduling proceeding ...

On April 19, 2026, Governor Healey signed H. 5350, An Act Modernizing the Commonwealth’s Cannabis Laws (the “Act”) into law, making substantial changes to the regulated medical and adult-use cannabis ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it is moving state-licensed medical cannabis and FDA-approved products containing marijuana to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, and ...

Denver—Today, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a Final Order (“the Order”) immediately placing both FDA-approved marijuana products and state-regulated medical marijuana products in ...