Category: Law & Politics

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News and commentary on cannabis law and politics

March 20, 2014
03/20/2014
How Racist Is Your State’s War on Weed? Compare!

How Racist Is Your State’s War on Weed? Compare!

A new interactive website from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) highlights how many lives are derailed and billions of dollars wasted fighting a racially-biased war on...
March 20, 2014
03/20/2014
Michigan: Regulators Expand State’s Medical Marijuana Law To Include Patients With PTSD

Michigan: Regulators Expand State’s Medical Marijuana Law To Include Patients With PTSD

Michigan physicians may now authorize cannabis for the treatment of post-traumatic stress. Members of the Medical Marihuana Review Panel voted 6 to 2 to expand the state’s list of qualifying...
March 19, 2014
03/19/2014
Why National Marijuana Legalization Will Happen, in One Chart

Why National Marijuana Legalization Will Happen, in One Chart

In a Pew Research Center poll, Millennials overwhelmingly support marijuana legalization at a stunning 69% rate, more than double their support since 2005. Older generations changed their...
March 19, 2014
03/19/2014
Preventing Patients From Growing Medical Marijuana Unconstitutional: Lawyer

Preventing Patients From Growing Medical Marijuana Unconstitutional: Lawyer

Changes to the medical marijuana program that will force Ottawa patients to stop growing their own pot will violate the rights of those who won’t be able...
March 19, 2014
03/19/2014
Illegal Weed Is Bad for the Environment

Illegal Weed Is Bad for the Environment

The above video from Mother Jones provides an unusual argument for legalizing cannabis: illegal grow operations can be very, very bad for the environment. The short clip follows Mourad Gabriel, a...
By: Andy Cush
March 19, 2014
03/19/2014
RAND Study: Marijuana Use Rises While Consumption Of Cocaine, Methamphetamine Falls

RAND Study: Marijuana Use Rises While Consumption Of Cocaine, Methamphetamine Falls

A rise in the self-reported consumption of cannabis during the years 2006 to 2010 corresponds with a significant decline in Americans’ use of cocaine and methamphetamine during...
March 19, 2014
03/19/2014
Why Is Medical Cannabis Signage Regulated?

Why Is Medical Cannabis Signage Regulated?

Anywhere you drive in America, you are bombarded by strategically placed signage advertising a plethora of products to consumers on their daily commutes. But there still seems to...
March 19, 2014
03/19/2014
Cannabis: The Undiscovered Miracles

Cannabis: The Undiscovered Miracles

A friend of mine and I were talking about why rescheduling cannabis was important. Specifically, he wondered about the necessity of allowing it to be opened for...
March 18, 2014
03/18/2014
Bill Allows Doctors to Write Patients a Marijuana ‘Recommendation’

Bill Allows Doctors to Write Patients a Marijuana ‘Recommendation’

Responding to growing public support for medical use of marijuana, the House of Delegates approved legislation Monday that would allow specially licensed physicians in Maryland to recommend the...
March 18, 2014
03/18/2014
A Day in the Life of a Marijuana Lobbyist

A Day in the Life of a Marijuana Lobbyist

Pot lobbyists are seeking legitimacy and taking the steps to achieve it. “We have the lobbyist who…can follow up with technical questions. What we want is to communicate that...
March 18, 2014
03/18/2014
Feds Approve University of Arizona Medical Marijuana Study on PTSD

Feds Approve University of Arizona Medical Marijuana Study on PTSD

The LA Times reports that the Obama administration handed backers of medical marijuana a significant victory last Friday, opening the way for a University of Arizona researcher to examine whether cannabis...
March 18, 2014
03/18/2014
California Legalization Is Coming, But What Path Will It Take?

California Legalization Is Coming, But What Path Will It Take?

The Leaf Online asks, with four marijuana legalization initiatives vying for the California ballot, one thing is clear: All four reforms are better than the state’s current prohibition. The...
March 18, 2014
03/18/2014
Washington Medical Cannabis Dodges Bullet, for Now

Washington Medical Cannabis Dodges Bullet, for Now

Medical cannabis gets at least a temporary stay of execution in Washington state. A bill that would have, by any effective assessment, essentially dismantled the medical marijuana...
March 17, 2014
03/17/2014
NORML PAC Endorses Tommy Wells for Mayor of DC

NORML PAC Endorses Tommy Wells for Mayor of DC

This morning, NORML PAC announced its endorsement of Councilman Tommy Wells for mayor of Washington, DC. “Councilman Wells is a passionate crusader for the cause of marijuana...
March 17, 2014
03/17/2014
Students Say Counselor Played Cop in Sting

Students Say Counselor Played Cop in Sting

A high school counselor enlisted two students to uncover drug sales on campus by buying marijuana, and when one of the students was arrested, school officials tried...
March 17, 2014
03/17/2014

Maryland Senate Okays Marijuana Decriminalization Bill

The Maryland Senate today overwhelmingly approved a marijuana decriminalization bill with bipartisan support. It now heads to the House of Delegates. The bill is Senate Bill 364, sponsored by...
March 17, 2014
03/17/2014
Marijuana Stocks: This Year, April 1 Will Be the New 4/20

Marijuana Stocks: This Year, April 1 Will Be the New 4/20

This year’s 4/1 is a bigger deal than 4/20, at least from a non-US marijuana stock investing standpoint. Come April 1, not only will Canada’s MMPR program roll-out,...
March 17, 2014
03/17/2014
Thank You for Smoking—Marijuana

Thank You for Smoking—Marijuana

Don’t mistake this one-time high school pot dealer with a libertarian streak for your run-of-the-mill stoner. His aim is to become the Philip Morris of the American...
March 17, 2014
03/17/2014
Coloradans Can Challenge Sentences for Marijuana Offenses That Are No Longer Crimes

Coloradans Can Challenge Sentences for Marijuana Offenses That Are No Longer Crimes

A Colorado appeals court ruled that Amendment 64, the state’s marijuana legalization initiative, applies retroactively to the sentences of people convicted of minor cannabis offenses.
March 17, 2014
03/17/2014
Colbert Report Tackles Ganjapreneurs, Green Rush and Bank Hypocrisy

Colbert Report Tackles Ganjapreneurs, Green Rush and Bank Hypocrisy

Last Thursday’s Colbert Report had a solid ten minutes on the (just starting to boom) green rush. The first video bit covered Colorado’s booming recreational marijuana sales...