Current Events
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Cannabis Can Help Fight Alcoholism
Alcohol can destroy lives but, cannabis is helping people to pick up the pieces and rebuild. I grew up in an era when Nancy Reagan's...
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Anti-Pot Drug Czar Nominee Encouraged Opiate Crisis
An anti-marijuana congressman was a key architect of the opiate crisis — and he was Trump’s pick to be drug czar. Since his election to...
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Bud and Booze: Uneven Conflict or Uneasy Truce?
Alcohol versus cannabis — it often seems like these two staples of American culture and commerce are at odds with each other. There's definitely some...
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Former Attorney General Says Sessions Has a Pot ‘Obsession’
The man who oversaw raids on more than 100 marijuana dispensaries stepped forward on Tuesday to criticize Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ draconian view of cannabis....
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Tragic Wildfires Have World’s Best Pot Growers on the Run
In the middle of cannabis harvest season, over a dozen wildfires wreak havoc in Northern California. California’s 2017 outdoor cannabis harvest is currently being decimated...
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ACLU Sues Georgia Police for Profiling High Drivers
A Cobb County police officer is under scrutiny for making drug arrests based on a “hunch.” At least three of the women he arrested subsequently...
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The Harvest is Here
A California cannabis farmer looks to the last harvest without stringent state regulations. Autumn and harvest, it’s such a special time of year in the...
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Majority of CA Will Not See Recreational Sales Begin by New Year
If you want weed sooner, Los Angeles — not San Francisco — is your best bet. Lest we forget, marijuana legalization is a big deal....
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Potlanta: ATL Decriminalizes Marijuana
The city’s anti-cannabis laws were impacting Atlanta’s black population at a severely disproportionate rate. Atlanta, the heart of the ninth most populous metropolitan area in...
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Dr. Oz, Gwyneth Paltrow & the Endorsements Cannabis Actually Needs
Gwyneth Paltrow and Dr. Oz recently declared their support for medicinal cannabis. But these two celebrities aren’t known for their scientific rigor — what does this...
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Little Hope For Marijuana Sentencing Reform Any Time Soon
A cultivator’s case in Missouri reveals the lengths left to go before harmful prohibition drug laws are repealed. A 77-year-old Missouri man will serve a...
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A Tribute To California’s Pot Pioneers
The leaders in California set the stage for cannabis across the country. As a Colorado-based cannabis business owner, I’ve long been rooting for sensible marijuana...
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Microchips, Helicopters & Covert Ops: Kentucky’s Crazy Pursuit of 70 Marijuana Plants
An ex-sheriff's former colleagues used the full power of the surveillance state to bust his hemp farm-turned-cannabis grow. Denny Peyman is the former sheriff of...
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Appeal To a Higher Power: Can the UN End Marijuana Prohibition?
The UN’s World Health Organization committee on drug dependence is re-examining CBD, which could lead to CBD's release from smothering international drug treaties. In their...
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DEA Chief Quits in Protest of Trump. Who Will Replace Him?
Trump’s disregard for the law is too flagrant — even for the DEA. We speculate on who Trump could pick as his next top drug...
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Report: Insurance Companies Push Opiates Over Less-Addictive Drugs
In 2015, over 33,000 Americans died from overdosing on opioids, but insurance companies are still making it harder for people to find alternatives for pain...
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From a Broken Home to a Cannabis Millionaire
Brayden Sutton, CEO of Friday Night Inc., overcomes the odds to propel the cannabis industry forward. Brayden Sutton left home at 15 years old and...
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Kenya’s National Assembly Hears Call to Legalize Marijuana
The West African nation could be the first on the African continent to officially legalize cannabis — if it listens to this businessman. A commercial...
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DUI Tests Inadmissible in Pot Cases, Court Says
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling that will help protect against false impaired-driving convictions from faulty tests, but will still allow police to...
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Canada to Existing Marijuana Industry: Get Lost
Police are cracking down on existing cannabis storefronts prior to opening government-run shops. It’s a true statement that adults in Canada will be able to...
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