Cannabis Business Legal News

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers took another swing at legalizing cannabis in his proposed 2025-27 budget and struck out. On May 8, 2025, the Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee eliminated marijuana legalization from the governor’s budget proposal. Marijuana regulation was part of the roughly 600 budget provisions eliminated by the committee.

Subject to regulation, legalization under Evers’s proposal and companion bills AB50 and SB45 would have created a medical cannabis program and an adult-use market and permitted residents to cultivate a limited ...