Search results for "Amendment 64"
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Politics
The Year in Review: Global Steps Toward Cannabis Liberation in 2018
January 2, 2019This year, 8 countries legalized cannabis for medical or adult use. Here’s a roundup of what...
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Politics
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions Forced to Resign
November 7, 2018Sessions is being replaced by his Chief of Staff Matthew Whitaker who will serve as acting...
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Politics
2018 Midterm Election Guide: 4 States Consider Cannabis Reforms
October 26, 2018In the Nov. 6 midterm election, Michigan and North Dakota are considering general cannabis legalization measures,...
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Economics
U.S. Banks’ Marijuana Problem
August 27, 2018A Bank of America manager was fired and a Florida politician’s account was closed over links...
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Legal
Medical Marijuana Chaos Continues in Florida as Judge ‘Eviscerates’ State Law
August 9, 2018Challenges to the rules imposed by lawmakers on 2016 voter-approved medical cannabis access are coming hard...
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Politics
Will Jeff Sessions’s Religious Liberty Task Force Protect Sacramental Cannabis Use?
August 8, 2018Jeff Sessions's newly announced Religious Liberty Task Force has progressives fearing the worst. However, it might...
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Politics
Former Deputy AG James Cole Wants Cannabis Regulated Like Alcohol
August 3, 2018Cole tells NCIA audience that the cannabis industry doesn’t need descheduling.
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Medical
Florida’s Medical Marijuana Chief Steps Down Amid Controversy
August 2, 2018After three years of mounting discontent from patients and providers alike, Florida's medical marijuana chief Christian...
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Medical
Florida Patients Fight for the Right to Spark Up
May 20, 2018Florida’s medical marijuana program currently forbids the smoking of cannabis flower, but patients say this contradicts...
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Cultivation
The Only Man in Florida Who Can Grow His Own Marijuana
April 17, 2018A Florida judge says an elderly cancer patient can cultivate cannabis at home. So why is...
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Economics
John Boehner, Formerly Anti-Pot, Enters the Cannabis Industry
April 13, 2018Despite the fact that he once opposed marijuana legalization, John Boehner announced this week that he...
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Politics
Mitch McConnell Proposes Legalizing Industrial Hemp
March 28, 2018Some people may be shocked that the Republican Senate majority leader is proposing the federal decriminalization...
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Politics
Chicago & the Role of Local Gov’t in Cannabis Legalization
March 25, 2018Voters in Cook County, Illinois — home of Chicago — overwhelmingly support legalizing adult use cannabis. Their decision...
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Joint Opinions
Why Not Regulate Marijuana Like Guns?
March 15, 2018Prohibiting safe access to cannabis does not save lives, but gun regulation might.
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Politics
Oakland Moves to Stop Cannabis Displacement
March 14, 2018Oakland, California's city council has passed an ordinance protecting tenants from being evicted by cannabis businesses...
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Politics
What Happens When Congress’s Medical Marijuana Protections Expire?
March 12, 2018Spoiler: Nothing. The U.S. federal government is scheduled to shut down again later this month, which...
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Cannabis
VA Blames Prohibition for Lack of MMJ Research
January 23, 2018Despite overwhelming evidence that veterans can benefit massively from cannabis medicine, obstacles created by federal prohibition...
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Politics
Marijuana Justice Act Introduced to House of Representatives
January 17, 2018The Marijuana Justice Act — which seeks to deschedule cannabis and right the wrongs of the discriminatory...
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Politics
Hawaii Doesn’t Want Medical Marijuana Patients To Own Guns
December 4, 2017Honolulu police have issued letters to medical marijuana patients telling them that it was illegal to...
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Legal
Police Departments Telling K9 Units to ‘Sit and Stay’
August 10, 2017What happens to K9 cops when cannabis is decriminalized? For the most part, not much —...