Anything Technologies Media Inc. and Quaestus Advisors have formed Whole Earth Systems LLC, which will build, market and sell self-contained growing systems. The systems will be designed for...
The University of Colorado – Boulder, once famed for its 4/20 smoke-out (and great student-grown buds), has announced that it will once again be closing the campus...
House Bill 184 is scheduled for a hearing today. The bill does not decriminalize marijuana in Texas, but the penalties for possession of up to an ounce...
Compulsory “treatment” for drug addiction in some parts of the world is “tantamount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,” according to report last month from the UN’s...
Joshua Sharfstein, Maryland’s health secretary, expressed support for Dan Morhaim’s medical marijuana bills. Sharfstein says the administration has changed their position on medical marijuana because the federal...
A consolation prize for those of us who aren’t in Austin watching the Spring Breakers premiere and panels right now: A24 Films, the studio that released the movie, along...
A 2011 bill devastated Montana’s medical marijuana industry. Since that bill passed, Montana MMJ patients have dropped by about 75% and providers have dropped by more than...
There is a marijuana legalization bill pending in the Maine legislature, but some activists in the state’s largest city aren’t waiting for elected officials to get the...
In 2011, there were 4,300 marijuana arrests for possession in DC, doubling the 2,150 arrests in 2001. That’s a 100% increase in marijuana arrests vs. the mere 5.2% DC...
Grand Rapids police raided three medical marijuana dispensaries last Wednesday seizing nearly everything in sight; the Mid-Michigan Compassion Club, the Natural Wellness and Purple Med. GRPD believed they...
I am presenting at a symposium sponsored by the Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal, “The War on Drugs: Working Toward a Ceasefire,” this Wednesday 3/13...
The Massachusetts Medical Society, which steadfastly opposed the medical marijuana ballot question approved by voters in November, called on Friday for large-scale research of the drug’s potential medical uses...
One of the internet’s largest cannabis communities, R/Trees, is closing in on 420,000 members. To celebrate, they graciously offered to run a fundraiser to benefit National NORML’s...
The American Civil Liberties Union announced this week that it was seeking data from police departments across the country in an effort to determine the extent to which law...
MedBox makes armored, 800 pound medical marijuana-dispensing machines, and hopes to bring 30 to dispensaries in San Diego. The machines operate with prepaid cards and patients’ fingerprints....
British Home Secretary Theresa May has ordered a “what works” study of drug reforms in other countries, but has rejected a call from the House of Commons...
SUPPORT HR 689 AND HR 710 Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Sam Farr recently introduced legislation that will end the federal conflict with state medical cannabis programs. Blumenauer’s bill, titled...
Among the many hundreds of public policy concerns that Americans care and act upon, what are the top policy concerns in Congress for which citizens search? Military...
