All posts tagged "War on Drugs"

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Amid Equity Rhetoric, California Blocks Tribal Participation in Cannabis Industry

California's Native American nations were completely overlooked in the text of Proposition 64, and its enabling...

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Los Angeles Prosecutors Clear 54,000 Marijuana Convictions

Dismissing marijuana convictions can help open educational and employment opportunities.

In The Magazine

Let’s Mess With Texas: The Lone Star State on Pot

Here’s why 2019 may be the year Texas gets a real medical cannabis program.

Joint Opinions

How Marijuana Legalization Keeps Law Enforcement Honest

Analysis shows fruitless police searches are reduced and trust in police is increased when cannabis is...

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Mexico Militarizes Anti-Cannabis Enforcement Despite Legalization Promises

Contradicting his boast to have "ended" the drug war and his pledge to explore cannabis legalization,...

Politics

Can a Canna-Basic Income Work in Maryland?

In Maryland, one state representative has an idea to leverage cannabis revenue to kickstart a major...

Politics

Computerized Cannabis Conviction Expungement: San Francisco Leads the Way

San Francisco has teamed with a software company to automate the process of conviction expungement —...

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Denver Could Seal 13,000 Cannabis Convictions

While state law prevents Denver from clearing the records all at once, officials are running a series...

Politics

El Chapo Found Guilty, But Prohibition-Fueled Violence Rages On

Notorious narco-lord "El Chapo" Guzmán was just convicted by a federal jury in New York. But Guzmán...

Politics

Mexico’s New President ‘Ends’ Drug War — Or Does He?

President López Obrador announced a formal end to Mexico’s "war on drugs." But troops are still being...

Politics

Now That Kamala Harris Wants to Be President, She Really Likes Cannabis Legalization

Harris wasn’t too fond of legal pot as San Francisco’s district attorney or California’s attorney general....

Culture

Netflix Hosts a ‘Narcos: Mexico’ Rooftop Party With Fake Cannabis

Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico” includes one of television’s largest depictions of a cannabis farm, so the streaming...

Politics

Colombia Returns to Hardline Policies Even as Legal Cannabis Booms

Colombia is facing a strange contradiction — foreign capital is pouring in for the legalized cannabis...

Politics

U.N. ‘Shadow Report’ Blasts Drug War as ‘Failure’

Will the U.N. take heed when it revisits the question of drug policy in 2019?

Politics

Activists Bash Trump’s ‘Global Call’ to Renew Drug War at U.N.

As the United Nations General Assembly met in New York this week, President Trump issued a...

Joint Opinions

Marijuana ‘Legalization’ is Only the First Step Towards Drug-War Justice

Without amnesty for “offenders” and economic equity, cannabis legalization remains an unfinished and imperfect experiment.

Joint Opinions

Trump Should Pardon Non-Violent Cannabis Offenders, Too

On June 6, President Trump announced he had granted clemency to a 63-year-old woman serving a...

Industry Events

NYC Cannabis Parade Pushes for Racial Justice

New York City's Cannabis Parade, a flagship entry in the Global Marijuana March movement and a...

In The Magazine

Can the Cannabis Industry Achieve Equity?

A participant in an Oakland, California program designed to provide opportunities to community members impacted by...

Joint Opinions

New Year’s Resolution: Fight Against the War on Drugs

Marijuana legalization is a small victory, a small step towards undoing the War on Drug’s legacy....