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TRENTON — Medical marijuana advocates have notched another courtroom victory, as the state’s highest court has ruled that employers can be ordered to pay for prescribed pot stemming from a work-related accident. The state Supreme Court unanimously upheld an appellate decision that medical marijuana was a “reasonable and necessary” form of treatment for injuries, despite the fact that marijuana use remains against federal laws. The court found that private employers are not exempt from such workers’ compensation cases. Vincent Hager suffered a serious back injury in 2001 while workin...

PHOEBE TOLLEFSON A medical marijuana business with a history of disputes with the city of Billings is suing, saying a police detective engaged in “judicial deception” amid ongoing efforts to shut down the dispensary. Montana Organic Medical Supply, or MOMS, sued in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, naming the state, the Department of Health and Human Services, two of its employees, the city of Billings and a police detective. MOMS is owned by Steven Palmer. Palmer said that in 2018, the state health department inspected his business’ cultivation facility near Emigrant...

The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission, the state regulatory body overseeing the adult-use and medical marijuana cannabis programs, announced on Monday it has revamped its website. “The commission has accomplished so much in just three years—from standing up the region’s first regulated adult-use cannabis industry and opening more than 200 marijuana establishments, to transferring the Medical Use of Marijuana Program and expanding it to approximately 100,000 patients,” said Executive Director Shawn Collins, in a statement. “We have redesigned MassCannabisControl.com to meet t...

Iowa has lowered penalties for those caught with small amounts of marijuana. Under Senate Study Bill 1226, which passed subcommittee by a unanimous vote, possession of under five grams of marijuana is considered as a simple misdemeanor for a first offense, Marijuana Moment reports. Meaning, Iowans arrested for possession would face up to 30 days in jail as well as a fine ranging between $65 and $625. Even though Sen. Brad Zaun, who chaired the subcommittee, called the legislation a “common sense” measure, some policymakers are lobbying for additional changes. Democrat Sen. Joe Bolkcom hi...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: New Jersey Cannabis had itself a week. Following a recent decision permitting the New Jersey Department of Health, Medical Marijuana Division (“DOH”) to continue scoring its 2019 Request for Applications (“2019 RFA”) and award twenty-four (24) additional medical cannabis licenses, New Jersey doubled down; with Governor Murphy not only signing into law the adult-use enabling legislation, but also finally appointing the remainder of the Commissioners to the five (5) person Cannabis Regulatory Commission (“CRC”). But what d...