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Only licensed medical doctors or doctors of osteopathic medicine can currently certify patients for Pennsylvania’s medical cannabis program but if a new proposal passes, nurses and podiatrists would also be able to register patients for a PA MMJ card.
If approved by the state’s health secretary, it would expand a program that already boasts hundreds of thousands of active patients, and give them more options in the process. This is separate and apart from the legislative push to pass adult-use.
Nug in the Oven
A new report from a reproductive rights organization finds that pregnancy-related prosecutions are at an all-time high in the wake of the 2022 Supreme Court decision that ended the nationwide right to abortion and by far the most common criminal allegation facing pregnant people is that they used marijuana during pregnancies
The report identified 210 criminal cases filed against people for conduct associated with pregnancy, pregnancy loss or birth during the first year after high court’s Dobbs ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade. Of those, 203 cases—nearly 97%—involved allegations of substance use during pregnancy.
Texas Tease
An updated version of the U.S. Farm Bill likely won’t arrive for another year, which will leave states to formulate their own hemp regulations. The list of stateside disputes is growing, with California and New Jersey having imposed sweeping bans, and Georgia rolling out a set of restrictions on Tuesday.
The Texas hemp industry faces a different challenge as it awaits a state Supreme Court decision that could reshape the market for hemp-derived products. “The way that ban’s language was written, it includes anything that could contain a trace of delta-8, which would be all cannabinoids,” a Texas hemp rep told Green Market Report.
Raising Arizona
The state of Arizona can’t suspend someone’s driver’s license because they have THC in their bloodstream unless they are actually impaired while behind the wheel, the AZ Court of Appeals ruled, upholding a provision in a marijuana legalization law.
Stocks & Stuff
It was another nothingburger in Cannaland as the specter of change wrestles with the notion of tax-loss selling. U.S. cannabis ETF MSOS finished the session flat, which also happens to be where it’s sitting YTD, on still-anemic volume.
Below, we’ll top-line the landscape and showcase the opening session of Revelry NYC, which highlighted how New York State has officially entered the U.S. cannabis chat.
All that and more, just scroll down.
SPY 0.00%↑ QQQ 0.00%↑ IWM 0.00%↑ MSOS 0.00%↑ ETF Notional: $35M
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