Wisconsin The state might relinquish hemp oversight to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Wisconsin will retain its state-run program through 2021 but might punt some hemp oversight to the federal government in future years because its program is losing money, according to a budget memo. No date for a final decision has been set, but staff positions to oversee the hemp program aren’t funded in the current fiscal year, which began in July. Wisconsin has been running a hemp program since the 2018 growing season, when states were still running pilot programs for hemp.
Wyoming Members of the national and local Libertarian Party are teaming up with Wyoming marijuana activists to get a medical cannabis legalization initiative on the state ballot next year. The campaign, which doesn’t yet have a formal name, got the go-ahead from the Wyoming secretary of state to begin the signature-gathering process. In addition to the Wyoming Cannabis Patient Act of 2022, which would legalize medical marijuana, backers are trying to get adult-use marijuana decriminalized with a second ballot initiative, the Wyoming Cannabis Amendments 2022. The campaign must gather at least 41,776 signatures from registered Wyoming voters for each of the two initiatives to be placed on the 2022 ballot. Note: Entries sourced from MJBizDaily, Hemp Industry Daily and other international, national and local news outlets. These developments occurred before this magazine’s publication deadline, so some situations may have changed.
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