Fed investigation on cannabis purchases with government credit cards (Newsletter: May 21, 2025)
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NY marijuana farmers markets; GOP congressman details psychedelics experience; CT psilocybin decrim; UT has 100k medical cannabis patients
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/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW
Senate DOGE Caucus Chair Joni Ernst (R-IA) and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) are pushing for an investigation into whether government workers are using federal credit cards at marijuana businesses and other “high-risk merchants.”
Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R-TX) spoke about his “life-saving” experience with psychedelic therapy—including how he “saw time travel” and “raining different colors.”
The Connecticut House of Representatives passed a bill to decriminalize psilocybin by making possession of up to half an ounce of the psychedelic punishable by a $150 fine, without the threat of jail time.
The New York Cannabis Control Board voted to approve proposed rules for the state’s Cannabis Showcase program, which allows licensed marijuana businesses to sell to consumers at pop-up, farmers market-like events.
The Utah Department of Health and Human Services’s Center for Medical Cannabis reports that the state now has more than 100,000 registered medical marijuana patients.
A marijuana dispensary owned by Woody Harrelson and Bill Maher was burglarized over the weekend.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals is taking up a case on whether state officials can prosecute tribal members for cannabis crimes on most Native reservations located within the state.
/ FEDERAL
The Department of Justice plans to move ahead with a proposal to merge the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as soon as October.
/ STATES
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) touted a state task force’s largest-ever seizure of illicit cannabis.
Missouri’s attorney general sent a letter claiming that THCA violates the state Merchandising Practices Act.
Minnesota’s Senate minority leader said his caucus opposes an increase in marijuana taxes that Democratic leaders have agreed to.
Pennsylvania Republican senators said in a memo about a forthcoming bill to combat drug-impaired driving that “with the opioid crisis and trend toward legalizing and decriminalizing marijuana, many experts and researchers only expect this trend to continue.”
A Delaware representative spoke about her bill to restrict hemp beverages.
The Washington State Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee published a report on the state’s cannabis market.
A Colorado judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to force regulators to overhaul cannabis testing rules.
The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals stayed a lower court’s order that continued to block regulators from issuing medical cannabis business licenses.
Maryland regulators adopted changes to cannabis rules.
Oregon regulators published a bulletin about hemp and marijuana products containing artificially derived cannabinol.
Vermont regulators sent an alert about scams targeting marijuana businesses.
The Illinois Medical Cannabis Advisory Board met.
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/ LOCAL
The Leon County, Florida state attorney opened a criminal investigation into the potentially unlawful diversion of state Medicaid funds to oppose a marijuana legalization ballot initiative.
The Denton, Texas City Council is considering repealing the city’s voter-approved marijuana decriminalization law.
/ INTERNATIONAL
The German CSU party tweeted that the “legalization of #Cannabis remains wrong” and that “the current cannabis regulations must be repealed!”
Ghana’s Food and Drugs Authority said that two alcohol products tested positive for cannabis extracts and are not safe.
/ SCIENCE & HEALTH
A study concluded that “CBG has significant potential as an intervention in” non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
A study found that “classical psychedelic practitioners in research settings believed that physical touch is an important part of psychedelic therapy” but that “they also emphasized the importance of professional boundaries.
/ ADVOCACY, OPINION & ANALYSIS
The president of the American Osteopathic Academy of Addiction Medicine authored a journal article about what he called “the dangerous mirage of medical marijuana.”
/ BUSINESS
Conifer Insurance Services and Skyward Specialty Insurance Group are launching an insurance solution for cannabis businesses.
/ CULTURE
Comedian Tom Segura joked about giving his mother marijuana edibles and microdoses of psilocybin.
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