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New Hampshire's path to marijuana legalization just got twistier, Kansas lawmakers vote down even a pilot program for medical marijuana, and more.

A Kansas bill to reform civil asset forfeiture goes to the governor, a Maine bill to create a commission to study regulated access to psychedelics advances, and more.

Hawaii's marijuana legalization bill advances but faces dimming prospects, South Dakota activists try a third time to get marijuana legalized, and more.

Mom-and-pop legal marijuana farmers trying to grow in the most Earth-friendly fashion face many obstacles, but they keep on keepin' on.

An initiative campaign to legalize weed in Arkansas takes its first steps, the Idaho Senate kills a bill that would have criminalized marijuana advertising, and more.

A bipartisan pair of senators has filed a bill to require State Department reporting on xylazine, Colombia's president nudges rightist narco-paramilitaries toward peace negotiations, and more.

Senator Leila de Lima, joins our UN Vienna side event via Zoom, to give her first international speech since being released after nearly seven years of unjust and political incarceration.

South Dakota's MAGA governor cracks down on dispensaries and insults Native Americans, a Pennsylvania bill would end cash bail for some fentanyl offenses, and more.

UN anti-drug bureaucrats are wrapping up their annual meeting in Vienna, Montana lawmakers will finally get a chance to override a months-old veto of a marijuana revenues allocation bill, and more.

Dutch marijuana coffeeshops in a legal supply pilot program will have until September to go all legal supply, Colombia suspends a truce with a leftist rebel faction, and more.

A marijuana legalization bill continues to move in the Hawaii legislature, Minnesota lawmakers ponder marijuana social equity licensing changes, and more.

Therapeutic psychedelic bills are advancing in Maryland and Utah, and more.

A witty polemic on how we must solve capitalism if we want to solve our drug and drug war problems.

Washington lawmakers vote to kill off the excise tax on medical marijuana, South Dakota patients will now have to ensure that their primary caregivers know they're using medical marijuana, and more.

An Arizona bill to allow therapeutic psilocybin centers advances, so does an Idaho bill that would ban marijuana advertising.

Washington state lawmakers vote to kill a 37 percent excise tax on medical marijuana, Nebraska lawmakers fail to override a veto of a needle exchange bill, and more.

South Dakota's GOP governor signs a bill requiring that primary caregivers be informed of patients' medical marijuana certifications, Virginia's GOP governor vetoes a bill to protect marijuana-using parents, and more.

The END FENTANYL Act has passed Congress, Colorado regulators roll out preliminary rules for psychedelic healing centers, and more.

A federal court in Vermont rules that the ADA does not protect medical marijuana patients, the drug czar says the cocaine trade remains a US priority, and more.

San Francisco voters approved a measure to require drug testing of cash welfare beneficiaries, Connecticut lawmakers heard about a bill to require hospitals to drug test non-fatal overdose patients, and more.