During the city’s recent midterm elections, Los Angeles voters approved Measure CB, which would require unlicensed cannabis distributors within city limits to pay taxes required of city-licensed vendors. NBC Los Angeles reports.

Currently, only licensed distributors must pay the city’s 10% cannabis business tax.

Voters approved the CB measure with 72% support. The measure was projected to raise between $30 million and $35 million in new tax revenue annually.

According to the report, the city also passed Measure TC, which closes tax loopholes for online hotel reservations.

Meanwhile, in March, the Los Angeles City Council asked The Finance Office drafted language to create an “amnesty” program for the city’s licensed cannabis businesses, which at the time collectively owed more than $400 million in back taxes and fees.

The Pennsylvania Senate rejected it lEGISLATION to remove oversight of the state’s medical cannabis program from the Department of Health and create a new and independent Pennsylvania Cannabis Control Board, PennLive reports.

Authored by state Sen. Dan Laughlin (R), the proposal would also give the new agency regulatory power over intoxicating hemp products, as well as any future grow-out cannabis markets in the state.

Laughlin said he knew the proposal would be opposed by some Republicans, but that he didn’t know until the last minute that Democrats would unite against the proposal. Lawmakers opposed the bill 23-27 on Wednesday, with six Republicans against and two Democrats in support.

“I knew it was a risk to put it up for a vote because there was some discussion going back and forth.” – Laughlin, in a statement

However, lawmakers followed up the rejection with a vote allowing the bill to be reconsidered later.

“We’re going to get another pass on that,” Laughlin said. “I’m not sure when, but hopefully by the end of June.”

Meanwhile, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) supports the legalization of cannabis for adult use and INCLUDING Revenue from cannabis taxes in his 2026-2027 state budget plan.

The Idaho Legislature last week approved language for a ballot measure seeking to amend the state constitution so that only the legislature has the authority to legalize cannabis and other psychoactive or narcotic substances, Idaho Capital Sun reports.

The adopted voting language includes statements for and against the proposal.

Language supporting the proposal states:

“Drugs destroy lives, tear apart families and threaten the safety of our communities. Decisions to legalize marijuana, narcotics and other psychoactive substances are too important to be taken lightly. The proposed amendment would ensure that any proposal to legalize these dangerous substances would go through the legislative process. Public hearings would be held on the proposal and people could be harmed by the law. Lawmakers would consider carefully each proposal and would be publicly accountable for their votes.

Language opposing the proposal reads:

“The Idaho Constitution states that all political power belongs to the people. But the proposed amendment would take that power away from the people by taking away their ability to pass drug legalization laws themselves through ballot initiatives. The people are just as capable of making good and prudent decisions about drug policy as the legislators. The amendment is also unnecessary because if the people had the power to legislate or ever pass the law for drugs to change or abolish it.”

The ballot measure could appear on the same ballots as a question directed by citizen advocates to legalize medical cannabis. Idaho Natural Medicine Alliance last month submitted petition signatures to county clerks and indicated he had collected more than 100,000 signatures to place the issue on the November general ballot.

It’s unclear what would happen if voters pass both initiatives, voting to both legalize medical cannabis and put legalization reforms solely in the hands of the Legislature.