Category
News and commentary on cannabis law and politics
3816 articles
Missourians with epilepsy that cannot be effectively treated by conventional means will now be able to use a cannabis extract under legislation signed into law Monday by Gov. Jay Nixon.
The Chicago Joint Committee on Administrative Rules will meet July 15th to discuss how they would implement the medical marijuana pilot program...
The American judicial system has displayed another staggering lack of humanity and compassion. Iowa resident and terminal cancer patient Benton Mackenzie faces up to three years in jail as a result of a police raid in 2013 that found him, along with his family, to be growing cannabis.
NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said he will not support the decriminalizing of pot even though pot was decriminalized back in 1977.
A couple of Florida men busted in Oklahoma City recently for transporting a substantial amount of hash and various other legal cannabis products purchased in Colorado are now facing life in prison.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled Wednesday that police officers cannot search vehicles based solely upon the smell of unburnt marijuana...
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is under attack in Congress as it holds its ground against pot legalization, even in the face of public opinion.
The media has been calling Washington and Colorado's legal weed market the "Great Experiment." If you've been smoking weed for a while, like me, you may roll your eyes everytime you hear that phrase. It just conjures images of white-frocked scientists, armed with clip-boards, peering down at us like we're on the Truman Show, recording data on our behavior like lemurs at a nature preserve.
Will Humble, the top health official in Arizona, has authorized the use of medical marijuana in cases of PTSD on the orders of a state judge, reports AZ Central.
The Supreme Judicial Court Wednesday said that police officers in Massachusetts can no longer rely on the odor of unburnt marijuana to justify searching a person’s car.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 09, 2014:
Uruguay President Jose Mujica told AFP Wednesday that sales of marijuana will be delayed until next year because of difficulties in implementing the controversial law legalizing the drug.
Jason Westcott, 29, a Tampa, Florida, man was shot and killed by members of a SWAT team executing a search warrant over small-time marijuana sales on May 27
The National Institute of Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse recently funded a study at the University of Washington looking into whether exposure to a pro-pot Twitter feed might encourage America's impressionable youth to try smoking pot.
Brooklyn's District Attorney announced Tuesday that he will not prosecute first-time offenders arrested for low-level marijuana possession.
Washington’s first state-licensed retail cannabis operators opened for business this morning. The state’s Liquor Control Board issued 24 marijuana retailer licenses late last week.
At the semi-annual summit of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), held July 1-4 in Antigua, regional leaders agreed to establish a commission to review marijuana policy and assess the need for reforms.
ASA developed a grading scale for evaluating the laws and regulations applying to medical cannabis in each of the 23 states with comprehensive medical cannabis access programs...
