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On November 1st, more than 200 bills became law in Oklahoma. We talk about a few of them this week on Capitol Insider.

In 2022, 583 cases of accidental marijuana consumption were reported to the Oklahoma Poison Center. Almost half involved a child under 6 and most involved edibles.

Since Oklahoma voters rejected recreational cannabis earlier this month, the state legislature has advanced several bills to further regulate medical cannabis grow businesses.

Voters are just days away from deciding whether Oklahoma will legalize recreational marijuana. But results of similar ballot initiatives in Arkansas and Missouri could help predict the fate of State Question 820.

Oklahoma voters will decide on March 7 if they want to expand the state’s medical marijuana market to adult recreational users 21 and older.

Oklahoma lawmakers are hoping to regulate how marijuana growers and processors utilize water in the state.

As the legislature entered its final day of the session on Friday, the long list of cannabis-related legislation had been whittled down to a little over a dozen new bills.

Since the legalization of medical marijuana in Oklahoma about four years ago, cannabis business owners have tried to cash in on the Green Rush with mixed success. One entrepreneur has found success in Oklahoma’s brave new world of weed.

Oklahoma’s NPR member stations are producing a series of stories focused on infrastructure in the state as Congress wrestles with the issue. Today, as more states approve medical or recreational marijuana, they have to figure out how to regulate production.

Many farmers and ranchers spray to help control weeds or pests that might destroy their crops. But the influx of marijuana farms in Oklahoma is posing a challenge to that practice.