All posts tagged "federal government"

Legal

Cannabis Arrests Down as DEA Seizes Six Million Plants in 2022

The DEA reported seizing millions of marijuana plants and arrested more than 5,000 people for cannabis-related...

Legal

UN Warns Adult-Use Cannabis in US States Violates International Treaty

The United Nations' International Narcotics Control Board's annual report states that the failure of the US...

Legal

What You Should Know About the Cannabis Patent

The cannabis patent issued in 1999 to researchers working for the National Institutes of Health makes...

CBD

DOT Not Taking CBD as Excuse for Failed Drug Test

The nation’s authority on transportation doesn’t care if workers CBD products may have actually had too...

Medical

George McMahon, Who Got Medical Pot from the Feds for Decades, Passes Away

McMahon was one of a handful of patients who received free medical marijuana through a federal...

Economics

Is Uncle Sam’s $3 Million CBD Exploration Just Another Scam?

Government research grants will not study whole-plant marijuana.

Culture

Bernie Sanders Says He’d Legalize Marijuana by Executive Order

Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders stopped by the Joe Rogan Experience to dive into his platform,...

Medical

Medical Cannabis in Utah Will Not Impede Federal Funds

Utah demonstrates that states and institutions can no longer claim they can't legalize marijuana because they'll...

Legal

Majority of Attorneys General Call for Passage of SAFE Banking Act

A group of 38 attorneys general penned an open letter urging Capitol Hill to pass a...

Politics

Jeff Sessions Resigns & the Cannabis Industry Celebrates With Caution

At Trump’s request, the famously anti-cannabis attorney general Jeff Sessions resigned today.

Economics

Canadian Cannabis Investors Are Being Banned From United States

Marijuana investors in Canada are being flagged when they try to travel to U.S.

Politics

Chinese Crime Networks Linked to Crackdown on CA Grow Ops

Federal agents seized about 100 homes around Northern California, which were supposedly used in grow operations...

Politics

What Happens When Congress’s Medical Marijuana Protections Expire?

Spoiler: Nothing. The U.S. federal government is scheduled to shut down again later this month, which...

Cannabis

Cannabis Researchers: ‘We Need Better Bud’

Researchers say low-grade cannabis hinders their ability to produce meaningful data, and they're asking for access to...

Economics

Oregon’s New Marijuana Banking Bill Provides No Federal Protection

Banking services may soon be made slightly easier for those involved in the Oregon cannabis industry....

Politics

5 Ways Medical Marijuana Could Be Federally Legalized

Currently, 23 states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana. Fifteen other states have...

Legal

Jeff Mizanskey: Pot Prisoner Serving Life Sentence Is Paroled

Jeff Mizanskey, a Missouri man who has been serving a life sentence with no possibility for...

Joint Opinions

The UK May Beat Uncle Sam to Cannabis Legalization

Recently, a petition demanding the British government put the issue of cannabis legalization up for a...

Economics

Colorado Credit Union Sues Federal Reserve

Although the federal government recently issued a set of new rules technically allowing the banking industry...

Politics

Federal Cannabis Bills In Political Purgatory

While there has been a great deal of anticipation over the past several months in regards...