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Imagine supplying thirty children with enough organic medicine to calm their seizures for a year. Now imagine facing prison time for it. That is exactly what is...

Medical marijuana is coming down to the wire in Florida, where supporters only have a month left to gather signatures.

The Uruguayan Senate approved the government’s marijuana legalization bill on a 16-13 vote Tuesday evening. It already passed the lower chamber, and it’s the president’s bill, so...

Reason recounts the ATF’s tactic of using mentally disabled teens to run sting operations.

An article in the December 23 issue of ESPN The Magazine, by Howard Bryant, explains that the NFL should embrace marijuana as a pain reliever.

In a great article on Forbes, Jacob Sullum explains why 97% of federal drug offenders plead guilty.

A majority of Indiana residents believe that marijuana should be legally regulated like alcohol and nearly 80 percent of Hoosiers support taxing it, according to recently released statewide polling data released...

Only five to ten Denver recreational pot shops are expected to have their licenses and inspections in time to open on January 1, 2014, even though 118 applications are...

The Uruguay Senate is expected to pass a bill Tuesday that would make it the first nation in the world to regulate the cultivation, distribution, and sale...

A new video shows the life-changing consequences of marijuana possession arrests in New York City, even if the charges are eventually thrown out.

A new Harvard study finds no evidence that marijuana causes schizophrenia.

Colorado dispensary owners are having trouble finding packaging that meets the standards of Amendment 64’s regulations.

TMZ is reporting one lucky winner at a Wendy’s in Lovejoy, Georgia, received in addition to her cheese a “half-smoked” blunt, conveniently located inside the sandwich itself....

Thanks to a lack of regulation, California has become an unstable MMJ market and may lose their entrepreneurs to other states.

A California marijuana legalization initiative backed by the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) was filed Wednesday with the state attorney general’s office. But the national drug reform group...

Vape pens are under fire from officials in California, even being banned the same as cigarettes in some places.

Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency claims that most farmers are abandoning food crops for cannabis.

I will be the first to admit that this spine with organs glass pipe is very strange, some may call it obscene (to any offended, I redirect...

Raphael Mechoulam, the scientist who first isolated and synthesized THC, received an honorary degree.

“Cannabis policy should be built on evidence of what will minimize the potential harms and maximize the potential benefits associated with the use of the drug,” according...