TAKING A BREAK – NO VR CANNA LETTER THIS WEEKEND – BUT LISTEN TO MY COMMENTARY IN THE NEW PODCAST BELOW
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VR CANNA SECTOR UPDATE – MONDAY – FEBRUARY 10, 2025 – MARKET TECHNICALS AND CYCLICALS STILL LEAN SHORT-TERM NEGATIVE – PATIENCE APPRECIATED: OUR WEBSITE AND BILLING SYSTEMS UPDATING THIS WEEK. DELAYS OR TECHNICAL
/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) told Marijuana Moment he wants to "definitely have a talk" with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about how "marijuana is harmful" as the nominee to become President Donald Trump's health and human services secretary heads toward a confirmation vote. Pennsylvania Senate and House Republican leaders said [...]
VR CANNA SECTOR UPDATE – FRIDAY – FEBRUARY 7, 2025
/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW Elon Musk, head of the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said it’s a "great idea" to mandate drug testing of federal employees despite his own use of marijuana and other drugs. Republican and Democratic senators discussed the marijuana industry's financial services access issues at a hearing on [...]
VR CANNA SECTOR UPDATE – WEDNESDAY – FEBRUARY 5, 2025 – ENJOYING THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF OUR NEW U.S.A. SHERIFF
/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) is sponsoring an amendment to undermine marijuana rescheduling by mandating that the Drug Enforcement Administration, and not the attorney general, sign scheduling rulemaking and requiring that an older test of "currently accepted medical value" be used. Curaleaf made a $250,000 donation to President Donald Trump's [...]
VR CANNA LETTER – TUESDAY – FEBRUARY 4, 2025
/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee for health and human services secretary, told senators that marijuana rescheduling is a "prerogative of the DEA" and he will "defer to" that agency on the issue—adding he would "like to review the data" that led to his department's Schedule III [...]
VR CANNA SECTOR UPDATE – MONDAY – FEBRUARY 3, 2025
/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW The Congressional Research Service says in a new report that the marijuana industry's financial services access problems are "at the nexus" of how federal and state law conflicts lead to debanking issues. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) personally presented medical cannabis cards to the state's first two legal patients—and he's [...]
VR CANNA SECTOR UPDATE – FRIDAY – JANUARY 31, 2025 – LOOKS LIKE THE SPX WILL CLOSE ABOVE 588.22 THE DECEMBER 31 CLOSE GIVING THE JANUARY BAROMETER A BUY SIGNAL FOR 2025
/TOP THINGS TO KNOW Advancing American Freedom, a PAC founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, says Senate Republicans should reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as health and human services secretary due to his support for marijuana and psychedelics reform. A Florida Republican senator claimed that President Donald Trump was "tricked" into supporting [...]
VR CANNA SECTOR UPDATE – THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2025
/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW Protect the Public’s Trust, a nonprofit focused on government transparency, filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for allegedly refusing to turn over marijuana rescheduling records, including communications with the Department of Justice and Drug Enforcement Administration. The Congressional Research Service [...]
VR CANNA SECTOR UPDATE – WEDNESDAY-JANUARY 29, 2025
/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW Congressional Cannabis Caucus Co-chair Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) asked members of the House Ways & Means Committee to reform "outdated" laws that force the marijuana industry to pay higher taxes and instead "treat cannabis businesses like any other small businesses that operate in so many of our districts." Cannabis businesses [...]
VR CANNA SECTOR UPDATE – ‘TURNAROUND TUESDAY’ – JANUARY 28, 2025
/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW Democratic lawmakers are pushing back on the anti-cannabis views of the Trump administration's Drug Enforcement Administration acting head, Derek Maltz—with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) telling Marijuana Moment that calling cannabis a gateway drug is "such a boomer thing to say" and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) pointing out that he "doesn't [...]