Stories By David Downs
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Legal
DEA Blasted For Failing to Reschedule Marijuana
August 11, 2016The Drug Enforcement Administration is under severe criticism today after it failed to downgrade marijuana from...
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Politics
Marijuana Could Shed ‘Most Dangerous Drug’ Status This Month
July 11, 2016The Drug Enforcement Administration is preparing to announce within the next 30 days a potentially historic...
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Current Events
California Legalization: 10 Things To Know
July 5, 2016On November 8, voters registered in California will get a chance to end cannabis prohibition. Here’s...
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Books
‘Stoner’s Coloring Book’ Hits Bookstores, New Heights
July 1, 2016Warning: adult coloring books can be habit-forming.
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Politics
Maine Will Vote on Legalization With Question 1
June 28, 2016Registered voters in the state of Maine will have the chance to legalize medical cannabis this...
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Legal
Montana Patients Fighting For Their Lives
June 27, 2016Montana medical cannabis patients are battling for the right to safely access the therapeutical plant, after...
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Current Events
Cannabis Industry Squashes Police Raid in California
June 20, 2016California’s newly regulated medical cannabis industry is done with running and hiding from police and has...
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Current Events
Major Raid Rocks California Medical Marijuana
June 15, 2016Local law enforcement raided one of California’s leading medical cannabis extract providers in Santa Rosa today.
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Politics
Dueling Efforts to Legalize Medical Marijuana in Arkansas
June 14, 2016Arkansas voters might have not one, but two medical marijuana legalization measures to vote on this...
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Politics
Ohio Becomes 25th Medical Marijuana State!
June 9, 2016Medical marijuana patients in Ohio are cheering today after the state’s Republican Gov. John Kasich signed...
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Politics
Montana Could Legalize Pot Dispensaries This Election
June 7, 2016Licensed medical cannabis dispensaries may be coming to the ailing patients of Montana. The Montana Cannabis...
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Legal
Marijuana Study Finds ‘Racial Injustice’ In California
May 31, 2016Blacks get four times the pot tickets as whites in California; Latinos 1.7 times as many.
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Legal
Montana Buds Was Raided On Suspicion of Trafficking
May 27, 2016Allegations of interstate marijuana trafficking and distributing cannabis in excess of Montana medical marijuana law might...
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Politics
Bernie Sanders Endorses California Marijuana Legalization Initiative
May 23, 2016The United States’ most progressive candidate for President of the United States endorsed the leading marijuana...
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Legal
Montana Dispensary Raid Update: Montana Buds Re-Opens; ‘We Got Robbed’
May 20, 2016The state of Montana’s largest medical cannabis franchise, Montana Buds, re-opened Thursday, after a Wednesday raid...
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Legal
Breaking: DEA Raids Montana’s Largest Medical Marijuana Dispensary Montana Buds
May 18, 2016[Updated 2:04 p.m. MST] Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and local law enforcement from around...
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Politics
Anti-Trump Voter Surge Could Also Legalize Pot
May 16, 2016The all but certainty of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promises to energize young progressive voters...
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Economics
Rep. Issa: America’s Policing for Profit Must End
May 9, 2016In 2014, police used forfeiture law to seize more property than burglars stole, and Americans are...
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Politics
Moms Uniting to End Drug War
May 8, 2016This Mother’s Day, moms are uniting like never before to save their families by ending the...
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Legal
Is the Federal War on Medical Marijuana Over?
May 5, 2016With the pending dismissal of the federal government’s highest profile case against a state-legal medical marijuana...