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Editorial Roundup: United States

Sep. 18, 2023 15:43 PM EDT

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: Sept. 15 The Washington Post on federally reclassifying marijuana The Department of Health and Human Services has recommended removing cannabis from the federal government’s list of drugs...

US regulators might change how they classify marijuana. Here's what that would mean

Aug. 31, 2023 18:49 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The news lit up the world of weed: U.S. health regulators are suggesting that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana. Specifically, the federal Health and Human Services Department has recommended taking marijuana out of a category of drugs deemed...

Medicaid expansion won't begin in North Carolina on Oct. 1 because there's still no final budget

Aug. 28, 2023 19:21 PM EDT

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With the state budget's passage now two months late, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration announced Monday that it can't start the implementation of Medicaid expansion to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults in the early fall as it had wanted. ...

Editorial Roundup: Florida

Jul. 12, 2023 15:18 PM EDT

Orlando Sentinel. July 9, 2023. Editorial: Florida, stop taking Medicaid away from kids, parents who need it In May, Gov. Ron DeSantis had this to say, after signing one of the toughest abortion bans in the nation: “One of the things I’m most proud of is that the...