On Weed Talk News this week, the US House attaches Safe Banking to next years defense budget, is this the strategy that can open up the banking industry to the cannabis industry? Cresco Labs makes another medical dispensary acquisition and this time it's in Pennsylvania. New Jersey misses a deadline to start taking legal license applications. A former Fall River Mayor gets sentenced to six years in jail for a weed license for sale bribery scam while in office. A celebration of cannabis in Boston, the Freedom Rally morphs from an act of civil disobedience to a party of the Boston Common. State by state reports from Michigan, Vermont, New York, California, and Massachusetts.