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Economics

Banks Are Pulling Out of the Medical Marijuana Business

The cannabis industry still deals in cash.

Politics

CA Treasurer, Cannabis Industry Figures Want to Meet Sessions

Officials are looking for guidance on cannabis banking.

Economics

Colombia Strives to Lead Global Pot Market, Pushing Out Peasant Growers

With foreign capital pouring in to Colombia's newly legalized cannabis sector, industry leaders foresee the country...

Politics

Federal Medical Marijuana Protections Renewed Again

Rohrabacher-Blumenauer is included in government spending bill.

Legal

Vietnamese Refugees Fight Deportation on Cannabis Charge

Several Vietnamese immigrants who had been living legally for many years in the United States have...

Economics

First Cannabis Company Listed on Nasdaq

In a sure sign of changing times, the first cannabis-industry business has been listed on the...

Politics

State of the Union 2018: Where Is the Pot?

In his first State of the Union speech as president, Donald Trump made no mention of...

Economics

Jeff Sessions Targets Marijuana Banking, Reignites Fears

Attorney General Jeff Sessions hasn’t launched any raids or prosecutions since he revoked the Cole Memo...

Legal

Marijuana Crackdown? Not Yet: What Jeff Sessions’s New Memo Means For Legal Pot

Don’t panic — and please don’t allow confusion and misinformation to fool you into doing Jeff...

Cannabis

Oregon Patients Are Getting Lost in the Legalization Hustle

Medical marijuana patients in Oregon are losing out to legalization.

Politics

The U.S. Army Will Recruit More Cannabis Smokers

This October, the military announced that it will be issuing more waivers to recruits who admit...

Cannabis

Shaky MMJ Health Claims Could Trigger Federal Crackdown

The FDA is hinting they’ll investigate cannabis products that claim, among other things, to cure cancer.

Joint Opinions

The People vs. Marijuana

Cannabis prisoner Luke Scarmazzo speaks from solitary confinement.

Legal

The Legal Cannabis Diversion Problem

How marijuana legalization’s great success could give Jeff Sessions the excuse he needs to crack down.

Cannabis

We Want the Funk: Talking Ganja with George Clinton

Funk icon and music legend George Clinton breaks down the ways he enjoys cannabis and the...

Politics

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...

In The Magazine

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...

Politics

How Trump’s War on Weed Could Start on Saturday (And Why It Probably Won’t)

The most important Congressional action on cannabis — ever — is set to expire this Friday at midnight;...

Politics

AG Sessions’ Right Hand Man Wants to Amp Up the Drug War

The uncertainty surrounding the Trump Administration's policy direction on cannabis enforcement has had a chilling effect...

Economics

Nevada Plans July Pot Sales Despite Warning of US Crackdown

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada still plans to launch recreational marijuana sales in July despite...