Category: Law & Politics

The Epilepsy Foundation is calling for increased access to medical marijuana for patients and research purposes.

Washington’s House voted 67 to 29 to pass a medical marijuana dispensary ban, in part to protect the profits of the upcoming recreational shops.

Village City, Oklahoma councilman Jerry Broughton proposed decriminalization, saying pot users don’t belong in jail.

NORML PAC is pleased to announce that it has endorsed Shenna Bellows in her campaign to represent the state of Maine in the United States Senate. “Shenna...

A non-profit Christian dispensary in Sacramento is fighting the IRS for the right to deduct business expenses.

California counties continue to struggle with dispensary and growing rules, Reno’s mayor has a change of heart, some Oregon cities may have to change their ways, and...

Less than 2 months after the first recreational dispensaries opened in Colorado, revenue estimates for legal weed have jumped significantly.

Thanks to recent reform, Italy no longer treats cannabis enthusiasts the same as heroin enthusiasts, and is set to release 10,000 pot prisoners.

Bad cop, bad cop, whatcha gonna do when they come for you? A Seattle-area drug task force deputy defects to the life, a Louisiana deputy parties too...

The Los Angeles Times reported today that a deep-pocketed marijuana reform coalition including the Drug Policy Alliance had decided not to move forward this year with an initiative to legalize the...

Leaf Science lists the 9 countries that could be the next to legalize marijuana.

New Yorkers Overwhelming Support Fixing New York’s Broken Marijuana Policies. State Senate Out of Step with New York Voters; Reform Urgently Needed. In a poll released this morning,...

Late last week, lawmakers in Mexico City filed two bills that would begin to radically transform the country’s approach to drugs. One was introduced in the Mexico...

Reno Mayor Bob Cashell has changed his mind, now voicing support for licensing medical marijuana dispensaries in the city.

Legalization in the US has fueled legalization efforts elsewhere, giving momentum to the push for legal pot worldwide .

I recently was turned on to an interesting blog from the Brooklyn Public Library. It is an older entry, from 2011. I had known that New York,...

Mike Power describes the failures of prohibition, giving ten reasons why the UK needs drug policy reform.

A bill that would have legalized marijuana in the Aloha State died in a state Senate committee Thursday, but a decriminalization bill still lives. Senate Bill 2733 was...

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker thinks that alcohol is safer than pot, and is upset about the president’s remarks to the contrary.

Officials at the Department of Justice are preparing guidelines to allow banks to do business with licensed pot shops.