Control Board members serve three-year terms, including the chair, which is nominated by the governor.

State legislatures considered a number of criminal justice reform bills around marijuana this year, but most ultimately failed to make it across the finish line—a trend advocates at the nonprofit Last Prisoner Project (LPP) are calling the “hidden crisis in cannabis reform.” “Across the country, state legislatures introduced more than a dozen bills aimed at

If marijuana patients reach their limit, state regulators say they’re not legally allowed to buy cannabis like as a recreational consumer.

The GOP senator who is set to take the lead on sponsoring a marijuana banking bill this session says he’s not currently focused on advancing the reform amid other competing priorities—and that his tentative timeline for having conversations about moving it is “hopefully in the fall.” “That’s a tomorrow thing,” Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) told

Among other initiatives, he also plans to direct $400 million to underserved neighborhoods with disenfranchised communities. News4’s Shawn Yancy, Erica Gonzalez and Jim Handly report.