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The Lebanese parliament on Tuesday passed legislation to legalize cannabis cultivation for medical and industrial purposes, a move that was recommended by economic advisers even before the coronavirus pandemic dealt a devastating blow to the Mediterranean nation's struggling economy.

Marijuana legalization in New York seemed impossible this year. Recently, Governor Cuomo said the pandemic is the state’s main priority right now. He also said that a decision like marijuana legalization shouldn’t be made quickly. As a result, delaying marijuana legalization was a wise decision. However, lawmakers have been looking at other options. They want to discuss and make the legalization decision remotely through online discussions.

Cannabis businesses are in a unique position to showcase what a socially responsible industry could look like.

The traditional models for business entities fall under either for-profit companies focused on profit, or nonprofit organizations focused on social impact. But many emerging leaders are leaning toward a third option: social entrepreneurship. As a tool for effective social change, self-sustaining revenue-generating businesses built to create change can be more impactful than nonprofits, which rely heavily on hard-to-come-by donations.

A trade deal signed earlier this year has brought much needed investment from an unlikely ally.

Edibles have been the breakout star of cannabis legalization — but drinkables could offer a whole new kind of high

About a year ago, when Lyden Henderson took a sip of a nonalcoholic, cannabis-infused beer, he discovered something was amiss: The beverage was chunky — bits of cannabis floated throughout the beer, creating an unpleasant consistency. “It tasted kind of like I was drinking milk that had been sitting in the refrigerator for two or three months,” Henderson says. “It had the worst texture.

The coronavirus crisis could be igniting a revolution of sorts in the legal cannabis industry.

Thirty-three states across the U.S. allow for some form of sale and consumption of marijuana. And of those, more than 20 states have designated the cannabis industry as essential during the coronavirus outbreak.

While advocates are applauding many of the interim marijuana laws, they also say those laws exposes dangerous disparities among states.

The United States has had a long, complex relationship with cannabis legalization. While it's still illegal at a federal level, individual states have been decriminalizing and legalizing cannabis since the 1970s (in the case of Alaska), with increasing momentum driven in recent decades by advocates for medical marijuana.