Oklahoma has some of the harshest penalties for marijuana possession in the nation. A second offense for possession of any amount of marijuana is a felony punishable...
For the fourth time in five years, a cannabis decriminalization bill has been approved by New Hampshire’s House of Representatives. The bill would reduce penalties for possession...
013 Jovan Jackson a medical cannabis patient, Navy veteran, and former operator of Answerdam, a medical marijuana collective in San Diego, was in court yesterday to learn...
Aurora could regulate marijuana retailers like liquor stores, which are required to be about 2,000 feet apart from any rival. That would give Aurora room for about...
013 Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Rand Paul (R-KY) have introduced S. 619, the bipartisan “Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013,” allowing judges to set aside mandatory...
013 Medical marijuana action was concentrated in state legislatures this week, although there was also news from the Massachusetts attorney general’s office. California On Tuesday, Rep. Tom Ammiano...
On Monday, Nevada became the latest state to see a marijuana legalization bill filed this year. Assemblyman Joe Hogan (D-Las Vegas) introduced Assembly Bill 402, which would allow...
New York City police spent an estimated one million hours in staff time making low level marijuana possession arrests between the years 2002 and 2012, according to the findings...
A bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in Maryland passed the state Senate Tuesday by a nearly two-to-one margin. The vote was...
California’s medical marijuana industry would be overseen by a Sacramento-level bureaucracy under AB 473, a reform bill introduced Tuesday by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco.
013 A bill allowing seriously ill New Hampshire residents to use marijuana for medical purposes moved one step closer to becoming law Wednesday afternoon when the House...
Marijuana possession charges hold in Kansas, even against those caught passing through after buying the herb legally in another state, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled. Troy...
Following overwhelming approval of the medical marijuana ballot initiative in November, Massachusetts’ patients are waiting for safe access to their medicine as the state proceeds with implementation....
Lawmakers in Albany are still negotiating over the state budget, as part of the proposed deal, Governor Coumo is pushing for the decriminalization of small amounts of...
The Southern Cannabis Reform Conference began in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday. The conference was attended by members of several cannabis reform organizations such as NORML Women’s Alliance, Law...
Curbing racial disparities in the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program requires a federal judge to act “boldly and broadly,” a civil rights lawyer said at...
The NYPD made 39,218 low-level marijuana possession arrests in 2012 (over 440,000 in past decade), each consuming an estimated 2.5 man hours of police work. Just a...
At a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in South Boston this past weekend, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) took a jab at pro-legalization Republican State Representative Dan Winslow (R-Norfolk),...
Prominent policy analyst and UCLA professor Mark Kleiman has won Washington State’s consulting contract on I-502 implementation. According to Northwest Public Radio, “Washington’s Liquor Control Board wants consulting help in...
