In an excellent article on Time, David Sheff describes the failure of the drug war, the Obama Administration’s short-comings and the chance to shift the way our...
As promised, Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has scheduled hearings on marijuana policy. “Conflicts between State and Federal Marijuana Laws” will take place September 10...
As reported earlier this week on Harborside Medical’s website and reposted here on Weedist, the federal government is now going after medical marijuana in one of the...
Pennsylvania Hempland Security held their third rally this year for cannabis legalization in Pennsylvania in Penn Square in Reading on Saturday. The rally was in support of...
This Saturday, August 31 at 1 PM, Birmingham’s Cannon Hill Park will be home to a campaign effort for cannabis legalization. The event will showcase speakers, music,...
A new poll by Quinnipiac University found that public opinion of marijuana legalization hasn’t changed much in Colorado since voters approved Amendment 64. Of the 1,184 Colorado...
Last week, MedPage Today surveyed over 5,600 of their readers about their opinion of medical marijuana use. 60.7% reported they’d always supported the use of medical marijuana,...
One of four surviving federal medical marijuana patients, stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld suffers from a rare bone disease. He has been smoking government joints for more than 30 years...
A federal judge Tuesday awarded $3 million to the family of an 18-year-old Los Angeles honors student who was gunned down by undercover DEA agents in a parking garage...
As reported Wednesday by Rolling Stone, a recent study published in the peer-reviewed academic journal European Neuropsychopharmacology has shown that ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (otherwise known as THC) has significant effects on the...
CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who recently changed his mind about medical weed, has a weed strain named after him, for now. Within 24 hours of the official press release being released, CNN contacted...
A New Orleans police officer who gunned down an unarmed 20-year-old man during a 2012 drug raid pleaded guilty to manslaughter last Friday and was led off to begin...
A June audit of Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Registry found serious breaches in the confidentiality that was supposed to be in place. Protesters gathered Wednesday along with an...
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) collected several applications today from prospective Registered Marijuana Dispensary (RMD) operators, as today marked the Phase I application deadline. With the passing...
Could Florida be the first state in the South to approve medical marijuana? A bill that would have done that was stymied this year in the legislature,...
DEA puts public safety and lives at risk On the heels of Dr. Sanjay Gupta‘s endorsement of medical cannabis, and Eric Holder’s speech advocating reform of the...
CNN reports that — despite the increasing calls from activists, the public, and even Dr. Sanjay Gupta (who was Obama’s original pick for Surgeon General) to reschedule marijuana...
Years after such a system was supposed to be in place for medical marijuana, Colorado regulators are preparing to roll out a system using radio frequency tags...
A new study from Denmark confirms what cannabis advocates have said for years — marijuana is much safer than other substances when it comes to driving impairment....
The Denver Police Department recently held a one-hour ask me anything session on reddit, and so many questions were asked about marijuana that the department decided to...
