Portland, Maine may become the first city to defy both state and national marijuana laws. Following a vote by City Council on Monday, June 15, voters residing...
Joe Cain, Owner of the Medical Marijuana Farmer’s Market, is organizing a protest for August 13, 2013. That is when the Jackson city council will revisit the...
With medical marijuana gaining steam in Florida, the discussion of marijuana laws has become more widespread in the state. Many people (including us at Weedist, of course)...
When Washington’s Liquor Control Board released its draft rules, it ruled that cannabis extracts and concentrates (such as hash and hash oils) can’t be sold in retail...
Oregon’s recently-passed medical marijuana dispensary law won’t help owners and operators that were arrested before its passage. Not only that, there is a specific amendment in the...
Patient advocacy group argues that over 200 peer-reviewed studies are more than adequate to show medical efficacy. Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA)...
Federal prosecutors asked the 9th Circuit to let them pursue charges over a Washington drug-growing operation even though the state decriminalized the manufacture of medical marijuana. Washington...
The German city of Göttingen is turning green in protest of the prohibition of cannabis. A group calling themselves “A Few Autonomous Flower Children” set out in early...
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a revised version of the highly-contested Farm Bill yesterday. Although representatives re-crafted the bill to remove provisions for food stamp funding, they left...
A retired Army veteran in Texas was recently barred from purchasing a gun after a background check turned up a misdemeanor marijuana conviction from 1971. Ron Kelly, who served...
For medical marijuana dispensary owners and the patients who rely on them for access to their medicine, Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter’s (D) bill is common sense. Perlmutter introduced legislation...
As reported on Politix, the Obama administration has imprisoned almost as many medical marijuana growers in the first 6.5 years of this administration, as in the entire...
Robert Sharpe of Common Sense for Drug Policy states that the use of so-called synthetic marijuana is an effect of marijuana prohibition. He points out the fact...
Ethan Nadelmann, the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, doesn’t think kids and teens are going to start using marijuana more frequently if the...
Cannabis reform activist Dana Larson has been granted approval by Elections BC to begin collecting signatures for a cannabis decriminalization petition. The “Sensible Policing Act” would forbid...
Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling by Sabrina Jones and Marc Mauer (2013, The New Press, 111 pp., $17.95 PB Amazon) Marc Mauer, the executive director of the The...
The National Institutes of Health has granted $3.3 million to Drexel University for a five-year study of medical marijuana’s impact on drug use and health in young adults....
A federal medical marijuana banking bill was introduced, an Oregon bill that would allow and regulate dispensaries heads to the governor’s desk, Berkeley and Oakland fight the...
