In their June edition, Sativa Magazine took an in-depth look at the effects of legalization on businesses with their article The Top Ten Business Benefits of Legalization....
Sensible BC was out in full force earlier today, turning Canada Day into Cannabis Day. The group was recruiting volunteers and spreading the word for their upcoming signature...
Members of the Oregon House and Senate have given final approval to two separate legislative measures, Senate Bill 40 and Senate Bill 82, to reduce penalties related to certain...
New Jersey’s medical marijuana law has shown itself to be overly restrictive and flawed in many ways, but fortunately, the legislature has approved a bill that would...
As of Monday, Vermont will be the 17th state to decriminalize marijuana possession. A bill passed earlier this year goes into effect then. The measure, House Bill 200,...
Ohio Rights Group needs to collect a bit less than 400,000 signatures in 44 counties, by next July, in order to put an industrial and medical cannabis...
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed an armed 80-year-old man as they served a search warrant on a marijuana grow operation in a remote part...
Oregon’s DA’s Association opposes legislation that would license and regulate medical marijuana shops. Lincoln county DA Rob Bovett claims one reason to oppose the dispensary bill is...
Previously in Canada, medical marijuana patients needed to provide proof of qualifying medical conditions to Health Canada, which would then issue them a card allowing them to...
New Hampshire state lawmakers gave final approval to a bill Wednesday that will allow state residents with serious illnesses to obtain and use medical marijuana if their...
Rolling Stone’s Kristen Gwynne describes five reasons to legalize marijuana that even police officers agree with. These reasons include better overall public safety, renewed focus on real...
California medical marijuana dispensaries — and their patients — are under a sustained, two-pronged attack, and that is having a dramatic impact on patient access across the...
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) — the country’s oldest and largest public interest and human rights bar organization — issued a report yesterday addressing the federal government’s flawed policy...
Democrat Gov. Neil Abercrombie yesterday signed two separate measures into law to amend the state’s 13-year-old medical marijuana program. House Bill 668 transfers the administration of the state’s medicinal cannabis...
Washington’s Liquor Control Board, the entity in charge of implementing I-502, is funding a survey to gather opinions about how best to implement the historic law. If you...
It’s been a good week for medical marijuana in state legislatures, with New Hampshire now poised to become the 19th medical marijuana state, and that’s just for...
Last night, Patrick Kennedy joined CNN’s Piers Morgan to discuss marijuana legalization on his recurring “Gone to Pot” segment. Before getting into Patrick’s “truths”, hats off to...
An amendment to the Senate immigration reform bill by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) would affect real and imagined drug offenders. SA 1570, amendment to S. 744 (and the same...
