Stories By Chris Roberts
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Cannabis
Many Veterans Have to Break the Law to Use Medical Cannabis
June 16, 2017For veterans in states with restrictive medical programs, acquiring the medicinal benefits of cannabis means breaking...
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Economics
CA’s Legal Weed Market Is Worth $5 billion — There’s a Catch
June 15, 2017California already accounts for roughly a quarter of all legal cannabis sales in the United States...
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Politics
AG Sessions to Congress: Let Me Prosecute Cannabis Patients
June 13, 2017A recently revealed memo from AG Jeff Sessions urging Congress to overturn restrictions on DOJ prosecution...
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Legal
Prosecutor Charges Marijuana Business Attorney
June 12, 2017An attorney who successfully returned money seized from a dispensary owner has now been changed with...
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Joint Opinions
Cannabis Decriminalization Offers Opportunity for Reparations
June 9, 2017The legal cannabis industry has almost everything; billions of dollars in sales, hundreds of millions of...
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Politics
Is Sessions Out? AG Offers to Quit as Trump’s Russia Frustration Mounts
June 8, 2017Sessions leaving office, could mean good news for cannabis advocates.
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Cannabis
New Study Confirms Smoking Spliffs is Bad For Your Health
June 7, 2017Everybody knows that tobacco is a dangerous, addictive substance, but many in the cannabis community still...
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In The Magazine
Left Behind by Clemency
June 5, 2017What's beef? Beef is when a rap video means the difference between a four-year sentence and...
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Legal
Ohio Files Lawsuit Against Rx Companies for Opioid Crisis
June 1, 2017Ohio, like many parts of the U.S., is facing a serious opioid addiction and overdose epidemic,...
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Politics
SF NIMBY Culture: An Old Problem Facing a New Industry
May 31, 2017San Francisco may have a hyper-liberal reputation nationally, but the city's residents can be ferociously conservative...
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Politics
Florida Medical Marijuana’s Last Hope is its First Problem
May 25, 2017The Florida Legislature decamped without setting up rules for producing and selling medical cannabis — in violation...
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Politics
What’s Killing Medical Marijuana in Minnesota?
May 22, 2017Most of Minnesota’s medical-marijuana patients--all 6,300 of them--say that having safe and regulated access to legal...
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Economics
No Green Flag for Cannabis in NASCAR
May 19, 2017America’s top stock-car competition told a driver to remove the logo of his top sponsor from...
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Cannabis
Australia Conducting “World First” Medical Marijuana Trial
May 18, 2017It could be the world’s most important marijuana scientific trial, and it's starting now. By 2021, Australian...
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Cannabis
Of Mice & Marijuana: Lab Rats Have Greater Access to MMJ
May 17, 2017Legal restrictions on cannabis research mean that the biggest beneficiaries of groundbreaking research into the plants...
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Legal
Florida: Smoke ‘Em (At Your Own Risk) If You Got ‘Em
May 15, 2017Florida is such a weird place – the legal marijuana there is not for smoking. Yes,...
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Politics
How Trump’s War on Weed Could Start on Saturday (And Why It Probably Won’t)
April 28, 2017The most important Congressional action on cannabis — ever — is set to expire this Friday at midnight;...
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Politics
Does Trump Even Have a Cannabis Policy? Signs Point to No
April 25, 2017Initial cannabis industry responses to Trump's election and subsequent promotion of avowed "drug warriors" ranged from...
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Legal
Don’t Believe Oklahoma’s Meaningless CBD Stunt
April 24, 2017CBD-extractors in Oklahoma are celebrating after Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law a bill changing the...
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Politics
AG Sessions’ Right Hand Man Wants to Amp Up the Drug War
April 17, 2017The uncertainty surrounding the Trump Administration's policy direction on cannabis enforcement has had a chilling effect...
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