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More than a dozen new shops could open in Nevada in coming weeks, after a judge gave the go-ahead to companies that underwent background checks and won licenses.

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The Liberals, NDP, and Greens have promised they will overturn the ban on home growing if they win September’s upcoming provincial election.

“He was hired to take care of the marijuana house. He is not a drug dealer, he is not a smuggler, he’s just a simple worker trying to make a living by taking care of marijuana.”

Washington state has announced a ban on hemp-derived CBD in food and beverage products. Whether the products are going anywhere is another story.

Officials are proposing an overhaul of the state’s cannabis rules, with plans for boosting minority ownership, home deliveries of medical marijuana, and letting the smallest growers increase in size.

In Illinois, about 770,000 arrests and convictions, representing about 314,000 people, must be automatically expunged. A San Francisco technology company says it’s up to the task.

Gov. Phil Murphy vetoed parts of a bill to expunge low-level cannabis convictions, arguing they didn’t do enough to address the ravages of the drug war.

Two days before a federal court deadline, the DEA says it will do what it said it would do three years ago.

Some officials in the state worry that legalizing hemp, used for fiber and nutritional products, is a “backway to produce the drug, marijuana.”