There was a big Supreme Court ruling today. In Alleyne v. United States, a 5-4 majority extended an important sentencing reform that had begun with in the 2000 case Apprendi v....
Tyra Banks visited a cannabis store on Saturday (The Farmacy) and left with a brown bag. The shop boasts medical cannabis, as well as other high quality global organic medicine.
There are four new videos worth checking out, two provide comic relief…two provide contrasting views about cannabis prohibition. The same day last week, I caught a CNN...
Alaska’s Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell certified an application for a marijuana legalization initiative on Friday. The initiative would legalize the possession of up to an ounce. Supporters...
In an article on Huffington Post, Lynda Garcia of the ACLU explains that the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports do not track ethnicity (only skin color?). This means...
Maine medical marijuana dispensaries would be allowed to treat plants with certain low-risk pesticides, if a bill enacted by the Maine Legislature on Friday makes it into...
With a federal judge expected to order sweeping reforms to the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the Justice Department reportedly plans to intervene. Trial completed in...
NYU is conducting a study, supporting earlier UCLA and Hopkins studies, that even a single does of psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in magic mushrooms, had decreased cancer-related anxiety and increased patients’ sense of well-being,...
Governor John Hickenlooper has signed legislation, Senate Bill 241, into law creating a new program within the Department of Agriculture to oversee the regulation of commercial hemp production. Hemp is...
If you are like most people struggling with what to purchase for your father on Father’s Day, remember it isn’t about the material gifts. This year, if...
The Department of Health in Washington, DC is finally accepting applications for medical marijuana cards, and the first dispensary could be open in just a few short...
Two reports came out today about the federal government’s attacks on medical marijuana providers. First, California NORML surveyed court records connected with medical marijuana cases, finding nearly 500...
Visit Seattle knows that tourism (already big business in Seattle) will increase with the implementation of marijuana legalization, but says many questions will need answers before the...
Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval has signed legislation, Senate Bill 374, authorizing the creation of up to 66 not-for-profit medical marijuana dispensaries. Under the new law, state...
In an article on Huffington Post, Eleazar David Melendez describes the current rise of marijuana product placement in our popular culture. He also describes what we Weedists have...
Voters approved the marijuana legalization initiative I-502 in Washington state last November, and it is now legal to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, but a...
Federal agents on Tuesday raided 103 marijuana stores in Los Angeles County. It was the latest skirmish in the federal war on medical marijuana, which is legal...
An initiative for marijuana legalization that would amend Arizona’s constitution, much like Colorado’s Amendment 64, was filed yesterday. In order to make it to the 2014 ballot,...
In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, a group of leading scientists argue that global drug prohibition has not only compounded the harms...
