Politics
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NFL Signals Softening Stance on Medical Cannabis
Which will come first; nationwide marijuana legalization, or NFL football players smoking weed? It’ll be close. August is the month when the fancies of many...
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Could Free Weed Help San Francisco’s Homeless Population?
A former candidate for San Francisco mayor wants to hand out free medical cannabis to homeless people struggling with opioid addiction. Most of Mary Howe’s...
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NJ Senator Introduces Bill That Could Federally Legalize Weed
A new bill introduced by New Jersey senator Cory Booker aims to do more than remove cannabis from the Schedule I Drug list — it...
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Sessions vs The Senate: Committee Votes to Uphold MMJ Protections
National direction to protect medical marijuana advances forward. In a direct opposition to an already embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont...
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Safe Cannabis Access for Veterans Moves Forward in Congress
A major Senate committee has approved an amendment to the military appropriations bill that would allow military veterans in legal cannabis states to access cannabis medicine....
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Republic of Georgia Decriminalizes Cannabis Cultivation
The former-Soviet Republic of Georgia has made massive strides on cannabis policy in recent months: The decriminalization movement has been active for years, but the...
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Fake News: Anything Declaring Cannabis Legalization is Bad For Kids
Legal cannabis has not resulted in an increase of teen use. Last week, late-night television host and opinion influencer Stephen Colbert, a onetime purveyor of...
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Compromise: Massachusetts Pot Sales Start July 2018
Lawmakers reach compromise on recreational cannabis in Massachusetts. After numerous missed deadlines, the legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has reached an agreement on how...
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Nevada’s Recreational Inventory ‘Emergency’ Is Ending
The widely-reported "emergency" facing Nevada's burgeoning legal cannabis market has been resolved, or will be as soon as more distributors get licensed. It took less...
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UN Drug Report Calls for Research and Regulation on Cannabis
The United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime recently released its annual global report — it had plenty to say about every kind of cannabis...
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Gateway Theory: The Big Lie that Won’t Die
Some myths just refuse to die. Such is the case with the persistent misinformation about cannabis being a "gateway" to other drugs; it isn't true,...
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Cannabis Reparations? D.C. Explores Priority for Black-Owned Businesses
Washington D.C. legislation would give minorities preference in starting cannabis businesses. Washington, D.C., America’s capital city, is also one of America’s Blackest cities. But advocates...
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Utah’s MMJ Patients Are Taking Decriminalization to the Polls
Utah is proof positive of a maxim in drug-policy reform: Never trust a lawmaker with medical cannabis. Utah medical marijuana patients just learned that the hard...
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Former Deputy AG Yates: Sessions Drug Policy is Based on Fear
A recent op-ed reveals that the former deputy attorney general does not agree with DOJ plans to seek the maximum sentence for people convicted of...
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MA Guts Pot Industry Protections for People of Color
When Massachusetts’ voters passed Question 4 last November it included clear language for diversity and inclusion in the forthcoming legal cannabis industry. Now lawmakers and...
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Vermont Legalization Deal Likely This Week
Despite a disappointing gubernatorial veto, Vermont's historic legalization bill could still move forward — this week. Vermont came within a stroke of Gov. Rick Scott’s...
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AG Sessions to Congress: Let Me Prosecute Cannabis Patients
A recently revealed memo from AG Jeff Sessions urging Congress to overturn restrictions on DOJ prosecution of state-legal medical cannabis operations is heating up already...
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Legalization in Trump’s America: Skating on Thin Ice
With an aggressive executive branch openly defying constitutional checks on its authority and installing noted prohibitionists in key positions, will the Trump administration make America...
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Is Sessions Out? AG Offers to Quit as Trump’s Russia Frustration Mounts
Sessions leaving office, could mean good news for cannabis advocates. Even Donald Trump is sick of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions, America’s all-purpose antebellum bogeyman...
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DOJ Task Force Gears Up to Talk Pot Policy
The Justice Department's Task Force on Public Safety and Crime Reduction has a set of initial recommendations due next month that will include a look...
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