Latest Cannabis News: February 25, 2025
Latest Cannabis News: February 25, 2025
Stay up to date with the latest legalization and cannabis news with the C.B. Advisors. Every week, we will release a snippet of what’s happening with each state in the cannabis industry. Did you miss last week? No worries – click here for last week’s cannabis news.
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Indiana: Despite a record amount of marijuana bills filed by both Indiana Republicans and Democrats this legislative session, all efforts to legalize and decriminalize weed failed. Weeks after the Republican-led coalition Safe and Regulated Indiana pushed for meaningful marijuana reform, the main bill they pushed for died. According to an LSA fiscal analysis, that bill could have brought up to $200 million in new revenue to Indiana in 2026.
Iowa: Bills raising number of dispensaries, expanding medical cannabis being considered in Iowa Statehouse. The first bill would allow the number of medical dispensaries in the state to grow from five to 10. The bill allows a licensee to hold no more than three medical cannabidiol dispensary licenses. If passed, the department must award licenses by December 1.
https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGI/91/attachments/SF46.html
Tennessee: Tennessee’s Senate Bill 489, known as the Medical Cannabis Act, is scheduled to be discussed and potentially receive a vote in its committee of origin on February 25. If enacted, the bill would legalize the possession, use and licensed distribution of medical cannabis, with rules and licensing handled by a newly-created Medical Cannabis Program Commission. This would make Tennessee the 40th medical marijuana state. If passed, it would take effect on July 1, 2025.
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Alabama: In a rare announcement on Wednesday from the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission, members advertised the approval of an open call for qualified businesses to apply to become a state testing laboratory. According to the AMCC, only applicants who submit a request for business application by March 14, 2025, will receive an application form. The forms and accompanying application instructions will issue to requestors on March 17, 2025, and applicants will have until April 16, 2025, to file their application. The commission will “review and evaluate all timely and properly filed applications, and award licenses in this offering on June 17, 2025.”
Florida: Bills filed by GOP lawmakers in both the state House and Senate would permit medical marijuana patients to grown their own plants at home. the House bill goes even further, permitting recreational use. It would allow adults 21 and up to purchase up to two ounces of flower and five grams of concentrate. When it comes to the recreational market, the House bill also would move away from the vertical integration, or ‘seed to sale’ model currently in place for the medical marijuana industry in Florida.
Companies wanting to get into the recreational market would be able to choose a cultivator, processor, distributor or retailers license and cultivators could not hold any additional licenses.
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2025/555/BillText/Filed/PDF
New Hampshire: The New Hampshire House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to legalize the personal possession and use of recreational marijuana, although the measure does not legalize sales of cannabis. The measure, HB 75 from Republican Rep. Kevin Verville, was passed by a voice vote in the House on Thursday afternoon, online cannabis news source Marijuana Moment reported.
Texas: HJR 70, a joint resolution from Rep. Ron Reynolds (D), calls for a constitutional amendment that if approved by voters would direct the legislature to “authorize and regulate the possession, cultivation, and sale of cannabis for medical use in this state.” Other medical bills include SB 170, from Sen. José Menéndez (D), which would effectively expand the state’s low-THC medical cannabis system into one more resembling programs in other legal states, replacing references in state law to “low-THC cannabis” with “medical cannabis.” It would also add new sections on product testing, packaging and labeling, retail locations across the state, caregivers and other details of the expanded program.
Utah: A bill will be heard on Wednesday to streamline Utah’s medical marijuana regulations. Its goal is to make it more accessible to those who need it. Under this new bill, more pharmacies would be allowed to open physical stores. This would increase the accessibility of medical marijuana. Currently, there are only 15 licenses total allowed for pharmacy locations and all are in use. Amendments would increase the number of licenses to 18 available to be issued in the state.
Source: https://kslnewsradio.com/elections-politics-government/bill-streamlines-medical-marijuana/2176182/
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Ohio: The state Senate is considering a bill that would significantly change Ohio’s voter-passed recreational marijuana laws, placing further limits on potency, prohibiting sharing, and halving the state’s limit on home-grow plants.
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