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...
Justin Hartfield, owner of the popular medical marijuana listing service weedmaps.com, seeks to expand his influence by potentially bringing a farmer’s market type of approach to the purchase of medical weed....
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...
It’s not hard to imagine why portable vaporizer pens have become such a popular option recently. Now that you can vaporize just about anything on the go,...
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...
Munchies are pretty much always synonymous with smoking marijuana. I have had my share of nights downing a whole pint of Haagen Dazs and an entire bag...
Robin Room, the director of Australia’s leading alcohol research center, has released a statement calling for the legalization of marijuana for adults. His support is based on...
The US government has approved a prisoner transfer application for Marc Emery, the Canadian marijuana activist serving a five year sentence in the US for selling marijuana...
Here is the full text of my planned comments during Friday, The Science of Medical Cannabis panel at ASA’s National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference, 2/22-25/13, Washington, D.C. now published in Frontiers in...
Free Munchies! Holy smokes, I don’t know about you, but my throat’s a bit tender after 7/10. With all the uncertainty surrounding my beloved errl, this was...
After all the controversy caused by the judge’s decision to allow testimony about the levels of cannabinoids in Trayvon Martin’s system, the defense decided not to even...
