States 

Arizona

• Bill Montgomery fought a 2016 vote on legalizing cannabis. Now he’s a Supreme Court justice ruling on Arizona’s 2020 vote
• Arizona Supreme Court says ballot measure to legalize marijuana can appear on November ballot

Arkansas

• High demand for medical cannabis causes shortage in Arkansas
• Arkansas regulators issue new medical cannabis cultivation licenses

California

• California’s Cannabis Advisory Committee will meet on Thursday and Friday
• California Cannabis Sales Climbing Despite Coronavirus, State Report Shows
• Aaron Keefer Grows Veggies & Pot | Rolling Papers
• Coronavirus: County board to debate CARES Act spending plan
• Cannabis retail storefront scoresheets OK’d by Santa Barbara County supervisors
• San Francisco, officials warn of fraudulent messages posing as pot regulatory agencies

Colorado

• Colorado regulators will hold a marijuana rulemaking hearing on September 22
• Colorado Must Rework Industrial Hemp Laws for USDA Approval
• Colorado Rec Shoppers Switching Back To Medical
• Anna launches a line of vending machines inside Colorado dispensaries
• Colorado Study Looks At Cannabis And Driving

Florida

• Florida DOH Recalls Contaminated Product From a Medical Cannabis Treatment Center
• Florida REIT raises $80 million to lend to cannabis companies
• Florida medical cannabis company told to recall moldy flower

Georgia

• Will Trulieve Dominate Cannabis in the South?
• Beacon Hill hosts panel to commemorate National Reparations Day

Hawaii

• Dramatic Times Create Change For A Healer – Q&A With Me Fuimanono-Poe

Illinois

• Cannabis Business License Delays Complicate Illinois’ Goal To Diversify Industry
• Benefits associated with getting an Illinois medical marijuana card
• Illinois to award cannabis licenses ‘in coming weeks’
• From Illicit To Essential: Pandemic Helping Cannabis Industry Gain Firmer Footing

Indiana

• Hemp Flower Bans Threaten Commerce In Indiana And Texas

Kentucky

• U.S. hemp association shuts down Kentucky website in dispute
• Green Hemp Farms Looking for Strategic Partnership

Louisiana

• Black veteran serving life for $30 marijuana sale set free after nearly a decade in prison

Maryland

• Maryland relaxes costly, duplicative marijuana security requirements
• Bowie resident, other Maryland grads launch Tetragram app to journal the chemical composition of medical canna
• Justice Denied: Trenice Holley of Maryland
• CBD, Hemp, and Natural Products Store ‘Patorco’ Opens in Federal Hill

Michigan 

• Michigan’s Regulatory Agency puts the kibosh on weed delivery to sports bar customers 
• Michigan regulators publish an advisory bulletin on pot license regulatory assessments
• Michigan tribe wants own marijuana market independent from state control
• Michigan Marijuana Market Has $3B Potential, Says State’s Top Regulator
• U.P. tribe to develop community-owned marijuana business on tribal land
• Photos: Sheefy McFly’s new mural touts justice for people imprisoned on pot charges
• City votes in favor of local marijuana ordinance
• Muskegon inmate with coronavirus receives meeting with parole board after AG support

Minnesota

• DFL files complaint against cannabis candidate

Missouri

• It’s Been 2 Years Since MO Voters Approved MMJ, But No One Is Getting Cannabis Yet
• Local dispensaries, patients await opening of dispensaries 
• Ones to Watch 2020: Brooke Foster — Greenway Magazine
• Ones to Watch 2020: Mark Habbas — Greenway Magazine
• Ones to Watch 2020: Charlea Estes-Jones — Greenway Magazine

Montana

• Regulators hold a public hearing on Hemp Research and Market Development Program

Nevada

• Cannabis dispensary drive-thru windows approved for Clark County
• Ruling expected soon in Las Vegas trial over ‘world war weed’

New Jersey

• NJ cannabis legalization: How the pro- and anti-weed camps plan to win your vote
• New MMJ cultivators granted licenses amid pandemic, controversy surrounds approval
• Public push to start soon on recreational marijuana ballot question
• New Jersey: Legalization Initiative Continues to Enjoy Broad Voter Support

New Mexico

• New Mexico Leads Nation In Alcohol-Related Deaths

North Carolina

• Durham, North Carolina’s mayor wants state lawmakers to decriminalize cannabis

Ohio

• Ohio regulators publish updated medical cannabis patient and caregiver counts
• Controversial medical marijuana patient advocate for Ohio quits
• New CBD store opens in Miamisburg

Oklahoma

• Second lawsuit targets OK residency requirement for cannabis businesses

Oregon

• Watch The First Ad For Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Ballot Measure
• Governor’s vaping panel calls for higher taxes, flavor ban to attack youth use
• A Weed Robbery Spree Strikes Portland Cannabis Shops 
• A west Salem cannabis shop’s walk-up window new way for Oregonians buy weed 

Pennsylvania

• Lt. Gov. Fetterman: Recreational Cannabis Could Assist State’s Lost Revenue
• Pennsylvania’s lt. gov pens lengthy Facebook post about need to reform cannabis law
• Judge: Pa. man’s cannabis conviction under state law can’t be used to deem him a federal ‘career offender’

Rhode Island

South Dakota

• South Dakota Could Pass Two Cannabis Ballot Measures In November
• South Dakota Submits State Hemp Plan To USDA

Texas

• Texas Ban On Selling Smokeable Hemp Temporarily Lifted By Judge
• District Attorney Creuzot Discusses Cannabis With DeSoto Council
• Texas May Have Missed the Hemp Boom. Can the Industry Recover?

Virginia

• Q&A: Virginia’s Attorney General Details His Push to Legalize Cannabis
• 420 with CNW – Virginia’s Medical Marijuana Program is Set to be Launched
• A quick history of hemp in Virginia

Washington

• Washington State regulators will hold listen & learn session on vaping draft rules Sept 1
• WSU ventures into hemp field trials

West Virginia

• Board of Health approves medical marijuana operations