The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear a case involving a truck driver who was fired after testing positive for THC, which he claims resulted from using a hemp-based CBD product that the company advertised as having “0% THC”.

Trucker Douglas Horn alleges the positive test for THC resulted from using a CBD product marketed by Medical Marijuana, Inc. as containing “0% THC.” Horn initially filed the suit in 2015 under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, arguing that the company’s misleading advertising led him to use the product for pain relief.

A lower court ruled in favor of allowing Horn’s RICO lawsuit to move forward. However, Medical Marijuana, Inc. appealed the decision, prompting the Supreme Court’s involvement.
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According to the results of new polling, the vast majority of voters in Massachusetts believe the state’s marijuana legalization law has had positive results.

For the first question, participants were asked; “In 2016, voters in Massachusetts legalized the adult use of marijuana. Today there are dispensaries where adults can purchase marijuana products. Do you think that legalizing marijuana in Massachusetts was the right decision or the wrong decision?”

65% said they believe it was the right decision, with 22% saying it was the wrong decision. 13% said they were undecided or they refused to answer.
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New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham says she is ‘offended’ by US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas’ recent comments regarding the Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) decision to seize legal marijuana and arrest employees working at state-licensed marijuana stores.

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (photo credit: Eddie Moore/Associated Press).

Last week, we reported that Governor Grisham confronted Secretary Mayorkas about the CBP’s decision to begin seizing massive amounts of marijuana from state-licensed businesses in New Mexico, while sometimes also detaining or arresting employees. During their discussion, Secretary Mayorkas informed Governor Grisham that federal law remains unchanged, indicating that such seizures are likely to continue.

Now, in leaked audio posted on the social media platform X by an account named Chaos Coordinator, Governor Grisham says that when she pushed Mayorkas on why they are going after legal marijuana, he commented “Oh who cares? They make a lot of money”.
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An e-mail sent yesterday by the reelection campaign for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris says former-President Donald Trump “took marijuana reform backwards”.

“Today at the White House, Vice President Harris hosted Kim Kardashian and others to hold a roundtable discussion on criminal justice reform”, begins the e-mail. “It comes after last month’s White House discussion on marijuana reform, led by Vice President Harris.”

The e-mail says the administrations stances on criminal justice is in “stark contrast with the Trump administration’s failures on criminal justice reform”, including:
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North Dakota Secretary of State Michael Howe has given approval to an initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana, allowing proponents of the measure to begin collecting signatures in hopes of putting it to a vote during the November 2024 or 2025 election.

The nonprofit political committee New Economic Frontier now has one year to collect 15,582 signatures from registered North Dakota voters in order to put their marijuana legalization measure to a vote. If the signatures are gathered by July 8, the initiative will be voted on this November. If signatures are collected after July 8 the measure would be placed on the 2025 general election ballot.

The official ballot title issued by Howe for the initiative states:

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