An Arizona voter-approved law that decriminalizes the possession and sale of marijuana for medical uses isn’t pre-empted by the federal Controlled Substances Act, and therefore is not unconstitutional, a state...
Ana Chretien, the landlord for Harborside Health Center (Oakland’s largest medical marijuana dispensary), cannot evict the business just because the federal government has threatened to seize the...
A bipartisan group of legislators from around the country led by Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colorado) introduced a bill in Congress today that would clarify that Colorado and...
Close to 11,500 people were treated in emergency rooms in 2010 for nausea, vomiting, dizziness, and other symptoms related to the use of synthetic or fake marijuana products, such as “K2”...
Nearly six out of ten Americans support legalizing cannabis, according to a just released Public Policy Polling automated telephone survey of 1,325 voters, commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project. 58...
02:14pm It didn’t take long. Voters in California last month approved Proposition 36, which amends the state’s draconian Three Strikes law to require that a third...
A Newton Massachusetts native is working with California-based CannaMed to open consultation centers in Framingham, Newton Centre and Needham to “approve” patients for medical marijuana.
The Mendocino Board of Supervisors and County Counsel Thomas Parker are scheduled to meet in a closed-door session Tuesday to discuss a pending federal subpoena for records...
The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear from California raisin producers who are challenging a federal price support program granted by the Constitution’s Commerce Clause and...
01:46pm Some 20 Colorado business organizations wrote a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder last Friday urging him to enforce federal laws barring the sale and possession...
The Medical Marijuana Business Daily, an industry new service, projects that if marijuana were legalized nationwide it would result in a market potentially worth more than $46 billion.
Iowa State University has rescinded permission for NORML ISU, its campus chapter, to use the Cy logo (school mascot) on its T-shirts. On the front is “NORML ISU,”...
Adults in Washington state will be able to smoke marijuana legally on Thursday, even though the Justice Department has offered no guidance on the conflict with federal...
However pot’s future is going to play out in this country, its recent path to limited legalization has interesting parallels to alcohol, which was banned by the...
The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks play in states where marijuana is now legal, a massive potential legal and public relations headache for the NFL. This could have implications for where...
by Sabrina Fendrick, NORML Women’s Alliance, November 30, 2012 Patricia Spottedcrow, an Oklahoma woman who was sentenced to 12 years for selling $31 worth of pot, with...
