Below you'll find a list of all posts from March, 2025
MCBA’s mission is to create equal access for cannabis businesses and economically empower communities of color through policy, programming, and outreach initiatives to achieve equity for the communities most impacted by the War on Drugs. Our unanimously approved 2025 Organizational Priorities center on empowering a grassroots approach, designed to uplift local efforts creating equity through advocacy and entrepreneurship. We will …
Governor Phil Murphy (D) highlighted cannabis industry successes in his budget address for Fiscal Year 2026. It will be his last since he is term-limited in his position. “Though we have come far in this journey we have not reached the finished line yet,” he said. “The reality is the working people who keep our State moving cannot slow down, …
Wednesday, February 26th (Washington D.C.) – Despite significant progress in cannabis legalization at the state level, tens of thousands of people remain incarcerated for cannabis-related offenses, licensed cannabis businesses are struggling, and community uplift funds are stalled. With 24 states and Washington D.C. legalizing adult-use cannabis and the federal government cannabis’s reclassification process in limbo, the fight for full legalization …