Stories By Owen Poindexter
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Politics
Trump Echoes Drug War Architect Richard Nixon
July 22, 2016What would a Donald Trump presidency mean for cannabis in the U.S.? It’s almost impossible to...
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Economics
Ex-DEA Agent, Former Legislator & More Scramble to Cash in on Maryland MMJ
June 29, 2016Open new cannabis markets and all sorts of characters come out of the woodwork for a...
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Politics
Wary Massachusetts Senators Visit Colorado to Glimpse Own State’s Marijuana Future
January 27, 2016Eight Massachusetts state senators, who form a special committee on marijuana, took a trip to Colorado...
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Politics
Republicans on Legalization: Can We Talk About Something Else?
October 30, 2015The Republican presidential candidates debated each other on Wednesday in Colorado, the first state to have...
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Politics
Clinton & Sanders Talk Cannabis During Democratic Debate
October 14, 2015In the 1990s, no politician with national ambitions (and very few with state-level ambitions) dared to...
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Joint Opinions
GOP Debate on Cannabis Represents Progress
September 22, 2015What happened last Wednesday was inconceivable as recently as eight years ago. Four Republican candidates for...
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Politics
Where the 2016 Candidates Stand on Pot
March 4, 2015For decades, cannabis has been a non-issue in American presidential politics. The standard routine was for...
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Joint Opinions
The State of the Union’s Glaring Omission
January 21, 2015One would think that this is the perfect time for Obama to start talking about cannabis....
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Legal
Ambiguity Remains for Medical Cannabis in MA
June 2, 2014Massachusetts has had a medical marijuana law since 2013, but no one seems to know what...
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Legal
What To Make of the New CBD-only Laws
April 3, 2014There is a new trend in conservative states: extremely narrow bills that allow patients to use...