Category: Marijuana News

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General marijuana news and commentary

April 15, 2013
04/15/2013
Brookings: How to Avoid a Federal-State Train Wreck

Brookings: How to Avoid a Federal-State Train Wreck

As previewed last week on NORML’s blog, the Brookings Institute is convening a cannabis policy forum on Monday, April 15. In advance of the symposium, Brookings has released...
April 15, 2013
04/15/2013
Oregon Must Hand Over Medical Marijuana Records to Feds

Oregon Must Hand Over Medical Marijuana Records to Feds

The DEA has obtained a warrant for Oregon’s medical marijuana records. In the application for the warrant, the requesting DEA agent said, “I have probable cause to believe...
April 15, 2013
04/15/2013
Public Benefits Drug Testing Bills Move in Three States

Public Benefits Drug Testing Bills Move in Three States

Bills that would require recipients of public benefits, such as welfare or unemployment benefits, to submit to drug testing, have advanced in three states. On Monday, an...
April 12, 2013
04/12/2013
Mendocino County Hands Medical Marijuana Records to Feds

Mendocino County Hands Medical Marijuana Records to Feds

After months of postponing a fight between Mendocino County and the US Attorney’s Office, an agreement has been reached. Mendocino County agreed to hand over medical marijuana...
April 12, 2013
04/12/2013
Colorado Grow Box Melds NASA, Marijuana Cultivation

Colorado Grow Box Melds NASA, Marijuana Cultivation

Former NASA scientist and co-founder of High Altitude School of Hydroponics, Dale Chamberlain, has now used his knowledge and expertise (he designed a plant growth chamber used...
April 12, 2013
04/12/2013
NC Bill Introduced to Reduce Marijuana Possession Penalties

NC Bill Introduced to Reduce Marijuana Possession Penalties

A bill introduced by State Rep. Kelly Alexander, Jr. (D-Mecklenburg) to downgrade the penalty for simple possession of marijuana in North Carolina, passed first reading Wednesday and...
April 12, 2013
04/12/2013
San Diego City Council Vote on Medical Marijuana Regulations

San Diego City Council Vote on Medical Marijuana Regulations

This past January, newly-elected Mayor Bob Filner, announced plans to stop the crackdown on medical marijuana in San Diego. Mayor Filner began working on a proposal to...
April 12, 2013
04/12/2013
Modest Changes in Obama’s FY 2014 Drug Budget

Modest Changes in Obama’s FY 2014 Drug Budget

The Obama administration released its Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal Wednesday, including its 2014 federal drug budget. Pundits and politicians on both sides of the aisle quickly pronounced...
April 11, 2013
04/11/2013
NORML Women’s Alliance Wake and Bake

NORML Women’s Alliance Wake and Bake

The NORML Women’s Alliance  is hosting a wake-n-bake to celebrate the launch their new foundation. Set for April 21st, 2013 in Denver Colorado, the event promises the...
By: Anna Diaz
April 11, 2013
04/11/2013
Vandalized MPP Billboard Rises Again With a New Message

Vandalized MPP Billboard Rises Again With a New Message

A Portland billboard put up by Marijuana Policy Project in March only lasted one night before being destroyed. The billboard featured pictures of beer, wine and a...
April 11, 2013
04/11/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.04.10)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.04.10)

Rhode Island is set to see its first dispensary open next, Mendocino County faces down the feds, and more news from around the country. Let’s get to...
April 11, 2013
04/11/2013
Massachusetts to Test Medical Marijuana for Contaminants

Massachusetts to Test Medical Marijuana for Contaminants

Wednesday the Massachusetts Department of Public Health discussed medical marijuana draft regulations with the Public Health Council. One of these regulations would require dispensary owners to have...
April 11, 2013
04/11/2013
Marijuana Eradication by Law Enforcement Plummets Over 60 Percent

Marijuana Eradication by Law Enforcement Plummets Over 60 Percent

The number of marijuana plants eradicated by law enforcement has plummeted in the last few years from a record high of over 10 million plants in 2009...
April 11, 2013
04/11/2013
Colorado’s Recreational Marijuana Industry Starting to Take Shape

Colorado’s Recreational Marijuana Industry Starting to Take Shape

People who plan to sell legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado will be spared the hassle and expense of having to grow it themselves, thanks to the suggestion...
April 11, 2013
04/11/2013
Alabama, Pennsylvania See Marijuana Legalization Bills

Alabama, Pennsylvania See Marijuana Legalization Bills

And then there were eight. That is, as marijuana legalization bills have been formally introduced this month in Alabama and Pennsylvania, the number of states to see...
April 11, 2013
04/11/2013
NAACP President: American Drug War’s Toll on Liberty Greater Than Apartheid

NAACP President: American Drug War’s Toll on Liberty Greater Than Apartheid

Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, said Tuesday “For about 40 years, we’ve decided that is how we solve almost every problem, whether it’s homelessness or drug addiction, we’ve gotten to...
April 10, 2013
04/10/2013
Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie Rolls into Theaters on April 18

Cheech & Chong’s Animated Movie Rolls into Theaters on April 18

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced that Cheech & Chong’s animated movie will hit theaters for the 4/20 weekend.
April 10, 2013
04/10/2013
Celebrities Urge Obama Forward on Drug, Sentencing Reform

Celebrities Urge Obama Forward on Drug, Sentencing Reform

A coalition of more than 175 artists, actors, athletes, elected officials, and civil rights and civil liberties advocates Tuesday sent an open letter to President Obama urging him to...
April 10, 2013
04/10/2013
Colorado: Pot Tour is Sold Out, But Company to Plan Others

Colorado: Pot Tour is Sold Out, But Company to Plan Others

Arthur Frommer’s February prediction that pot tours would be a 2013 travel trend appears to be on the mark. My 420 Tours has sold 200 packages for World Cannabis...
April 10, 2013
04/10/2013
Police Kill Texas Woman Fleeing Drug Warrants

Police Kill Texas Woman Fleeing Drug Warrants

A police officer in the suburban Dallas community of Richardson, Texas, shot and killed a woman with outstanding drug arrest warrants as she fled from an attempted...