Last Tuesday, Connecticut’s Regulations Review Committee rejected, without prejudice, proposed regulations for the state’s new medical marijuana industry. Co-chairman of the committee, Andres Ayala, Jr., said the...
In another great article on CNN Money, Jose Pagliery explains the need for heavy security in legal marijuana businesses due to the high-value product and lack of bank...
In a great comprehensive article on CNN Money, Jose Pagliery describes the secret banking methods used by medical marijuana dispensaries and other businesses involved in legal marijuana sales....
Capital City Care became the first medical marijuana dispensary to receive its license in Washington DC last Monday. The dispensary has a great view of the capital...
On February 28, 2013, Tacoma, WA Judge Jack Emery ordered Tacoma Police to return confiscated medical marijuana to a patient (marijuana charges against the patient had been...
A bill that would have required Hoosier State welfare recipients to undergo drug testing based on a “reasonable suspicion” of drug use was killed Friday after the...
Cannabis prohibition has staggering global consequences. Without real research into the subject, we’re left to conjecture about the extent of such irrational prohibition. But the stories which...
Sometimes science is great, sometimes it is not so great. Case in point: according to a study published yesterday, a team of researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet have...
UK citizen Susan Lunn, 43, is suffering from multiple sclerosis and has vowed to continue smoking cannabis, even if it means going to jail. She has been handed a...
In a vote of 95-1, the Washington House of Representatives passed a bill that would classify marijuana as part of the cannabis plant that contains more than...
Florida Rep. Darryl Rouson introduced HB 49, which would outlaw bongs and pipes to be used with illegal drugs. The bill passed the House and the Senate, and...
Just a day after the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP—the drug czar’s office) released its latest annual national drug control strategy, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has...
Cannabis, like other agricultural commodities, could be subject to problems ranging from mold, mites and pesticide residue in the raw plants to solvents, E. coli, salmonella and...
In another positive sign of the times for cannabis law reform, please find below a new video from the Washington Post’s The Fold looking at a couple of different situations...
Colorado employers can legally fire marijuana users from their jobs, the state Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in a 2-1 decision. Although the case was brought by...
Michael Marcavage founded and runs the Philadelphia evangelical group, Repent America. Repent America calls it their mission to save us all from the lake of fire and red...
The Bremerton Police Department in Washington is busy training its newest officer, a police dog named Dusty. Dusty is being trained to locate cocaine, heroin and meth,...
Sadly, but not unexpectedly, last week the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a petition for rehearing filed be Americans for Safe Access...
At about four feet in length, a gigantic joint in California would seem to smoke the competition. Or it would have, if police hadn’t stepped in before...
US Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske says marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington will not change his office’s mission, which is to fight addiction with treatment programs. His strategy...
