Louisiana’s HB 103 passed a House Committee yesterday, after more than an hour of debate. While far from marijuana decriminalization, HB 103 would reduce absolutely ridiculous current...
A couple of strange and disturbing items this week, plus some good, old-fashioned thievery. Let’s get to it: In Quincy, Illinois, an Adams County probation officer was arrested...
Marijuana Policy Project’s Rob Kampia published an article on Huffington Post about the parallels between the marijuana movement and the gay rights movement. In 1996, only 26%...
Grand Rapids residents voted in November to decriminalize minor marijuana offenses. People possessing up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana will receive a ticket rather than jail. The...
After a long debate, Colorado legislators have approved the high marijuana tax rates of 15% excise tax and 10% sales tax, this is down only slightly from...
Lawmakers in the Washington House and Senate quietly passed a bill over the weekend that will re-criminalize some marijuana possession, reacting to warnings from the state’s crime...
Last week, the Narcotic Task Force headed by the DEA conducted a raid on ‘One on One Patients Association’, a legal medical marijuana dispensary in Downtown San Diego....
In a sharp break with the policies of his predecessor, recently installed Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is moving to restrict the open relationships US law enforcement,...
On Monday, we received the latest Kickstarter update (#38) from one of our favorite projects: The Culture High, by Adam Scorgie. We support this Kickstarter project and encourage you to...
Last Tuesday, Connecticut’s Regulations Review Committee rejected, without prejudice, proposed regulations for the state’s new medical marijuana industry. Co-chairman of the committee, Andres Ayala, Jr., said the...
In another great article on CNN Money, Jose Pagliery explains the need for heavy security in legal marijuana businesses due to the high-value product and lack of bank...
In a great comprehensive article on CNN Money, Jose Pagliery describes the secret banking methods used by medical marijuana dispensaries and other businesses involved in legal marijuana sales....
Capital City Care became the first medical marijuana dispensary to receive its license in Washington DC last Monday. The dispensary has a great view of the capital...
Last fall, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) vetoed the Good Samaritan Emergency Response Act (Assembly Bill 578), which would have provided limited legal protection to people...
On February 28, 2013, Tacoma, WA Judge Jack Emery ordered Tacoma Police to return confiscated medical marijuana to a patient (marijuana charges against the patient had been...
A bill that would have required Hoosier State welfare recipients to undergo drug testing based on a “reasonable suspicion” of drug use was killed Friday after the...
Sometimes science is great, sometimes it is not so great. Case in point: according to a study published yesterday, a team of researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have...
UK citizen Susan Lunn, 43, is suffering from multiple sclerosis and has vowed to continue smoking cannabis, even if it means going to jail. She has been handed a...
While there is nothing genuinely funny about a seventy-five year prohibition on cannabis that has arrested over 25 million cannabis consumers, making fun of the failed policy...
In a vote of 95-1, the Washington House of Representatives passed a bill that would classify marijuana as part of the cannabis plant that contains more than...
