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ARTICLE · 06 MAY 2025

The Week In Weed: May 2, 2025

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what's happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

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Susan Ryan
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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what's happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the Congressional Cannabis Caucus is hoping to lift the ban on cannabis research. A DC dispensary heard from the U.S. Attorney for DC. Cannabis lounges are coming to Maryland. Delaware makes some progress on its fingerprinting issue. And finally, exactly what kind of grass is in those Easter baskets?

FEDERAL LEGISLATION

The Congressional Cannabis Caucus is under new management, and one of its goals is to eliminate the ban on federal funding for cannabis research. Under current law, the Office of National Drug Control Policy is prohibited from spending any money on research into any Schedule I substance, including cannabis. The Caucus's new bill, the Evidence-Based Drug Policy Act, would remove such restrictions. As Caucus co-chair, Dina Titus (D-Nev.) said,

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