Congressmember Dina Titus, Co-Chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, says marijuana rescheduling is ‘”stalled”, but she believes “we can get that moving again” if they can remind President Trump of his support for marijuana reform during his 2024 presidential campaign.

During a speech at the Global Cannabis Regulatory Summit on March 27, Rep. Titus said that the Cannabis Caucus is working on three primary priorities, including passing legislation to allow marijuana banking nationwide, ensuring veterans have access to medical cannabis, and further enabling and expanding cannabis-based research.

In regards to the research piece, Rep. Titus said “right now you can’t get much product to do research on except for some little scraggly plants from some place in Mississippi.. and yet you can go into a dispensary and find all these elaborate flavors and brans and buds.” She asks “why are we not making some of that available for research and allowing universities to not be afraid that they’re going to get their federal money cut off?”
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Washington’s Senate Labor and Commerce Committee and the House Consumer Protection and Business Committee have scheduled votes on three marijuana-related bills on April 1.

The bills—House Bill 1551, House Bill 1141, and Senate Bill 5206—address several aspects of the state’s recreational cannabis program, including advertising, direct-to-consumer sales, and social equity business restrictions. All three measures have already been approved by their chamber of origin.

Senate Bill 5206, passed by the Senate past month by a vote of 39 to 9, would make adjustments to the state’s strict cannabis advertising rules. Currently, licensed cannabis retailers can only display two exterior signs. SB 5206 would increase this limit to four, allowing businesses greater visibility. If a sign is less than 1,200 square inches, it would not count as one of the four allowed signs.
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Legislation to expand Texas’ medical cannabis program has been scheduled for a public hearing on April 3.

House Bill 46, the companion to Senate Bill 1505, has been scheduled for a public hearing in the House Disease Prevention & Women’s & Children’s Health Subcommittee on April 3 at 8 a.m. in room E1.014. With nearly identical language to its Senate counterpart, which was recently given approval by the Senate State Affairs Committee, the bill would significantly expand access to low-THC cannabis for patients across Texas.

If passed, the legislation would allow licensed dispensaries to open satellite storage locations, raise the statewide cap on dispensing organization licenses from three to six, and require approved entities to begin dispensing low-THC cannabis within 24 months.

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Santa Cruz County officials have given approval to on-site cannabis consumption at retail outlets, while also approving a 3-year pilot program allowing cannabis consumption and sales at local farms.

In a narrow 3 to 2 vote on Tuesday, the county Board of Supervisors finalized an ordinance allowing the county’s 11 cannabis retailers to offer dedicated spaces for customers to consume marijuana products. Additionally, the board approved the first read of a separate ordinance to launch a three-year pilot program allowing cannabis consumption and sales at local farms.

The farm-specific pilot program, which also passed by a 3 to 2 vote, will allow cannabis farms to sell and permit on-site consumption. This program prohibits use on private roads and bans visiting drivers from consuming cannabis products. Initially, sales at farms were limited to one-eighth of an ounce to prevent competition with traditional retailers, but the board reversed this limit in favor of the state’s one-ounce purchasing cap. To mitigate concerns about excessive buying, the program will require customers to make reservations for on-site consumption.
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A key committee in the Iowa House of Representatives has given approval to a bill that would legalize psilocybin for those with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

The House Ways and Means Committee voted 23 to 0 today to pass House File 620, renumbering it as House File 978.

Sponsored by Representative John Wills (R), the measure would establish a regulated framework for the production and supervised administration of psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms. The program would be overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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A bipartisan coalition of Maine legislators filed Senate Bill 1314 today, titled “An Act to Protect Cannabis Industry Workers’ Access to Personal Credit.”

The bill, filed by 10 members of the Maine House and Senate, would prevent financial discrimination against individuals employed in the state’s cannabis sector, ensuring that cannabis industry workers are not denied credit solely due to their employment. The proposal has been assigned to the Senate and House Health Coverage, Insurance and Finance Services Committees.

Under the proposed legislation, creditors cannot refuse or cancel credit cards or deny credit applications based on a person’s status as an owner, operator, employee of a cannabis establishment, or as a registered caregiver under Maine’s Medical Use of Cannabis Act. This protection applies unless federal law explicitly prohibits such actions.
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