013 Medical marijuana action was concentrated in state legislatures this week, although there was also news from the Massachusetts attorney general’s office. California On Tuesday, Rep. Tom Ammiano...
On Monday, Nevada became the latest state to see a marijuana legalization bill filed this year. Assemblyman Joe Hogan (D-Las Vegas) introduced Assembly Bill 402, which would allow...
New York City police spent an estimated one million hours in staff time making low level marijuana possession arrests between the years 2002 and 2012, according to the findings...
A bill that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana in Maryland passed the state Senate Tuesday by a nearly two-to-one margin. The vote was...
On Wednesday, we received the latest Kickstarter update (#36) from one of our favorite projects: The Culture High, by Adam Scorgie. We support this Kickstarter project and encourage you...
California’s medical marijuana industry would be overseen by a Sacramento-level bureaucracy under AB 473, a reform bill introduced Tuesday by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco.
013 A bill allowing seriously ill New Hampshire residents to use marijuana for medical purposes moved one step closer to becoming law Wednesday afternoon when the House...
Marijuana possession charges hold in Kansas, even against those caught passing through after buying the herb legally in another state, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled. Troy...
Following overwhelming approval of the medical marijuana ballot initiative in November, Massachusetts’ patients are waiting for safe access to their medicine as the state proceeds with implementation....
Lawmakers in Albany are still negotiating over the state budget, as part of the proposed deal, Governor Coumo is pushing for the decriminalization of small amounts of...
The Southern Cannabis Reform Conference began in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday. The conference was attended by members of several cannabis reform organizations such as NORML Women’s Alliance, Law...
Curbing racial disparities in the New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program requires a federal judge to act “boldly and broadly,” a civil rights lawyer said at...
The NYPD made 39,218 low-level marijuana possession arrests in 2012 (over 440,000 in past decade), each consuming an estimated 2.5 man hours of police work. Just a...
At a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast in South Boston this past weekend, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) took a jab at pro-legalization Republican State Representative Dan Winslow (R-Norfolk),...
Prominent policy analyst and UCLA professor Mark Kleiman has won Washington State’s consulting contract on I-502 implementation. According to Northwest Public Radio, “Washington’s Liquor Control Board wants consulting help in...
Ohio Rights Group launched the Ohio Cannabis Rights Amendment this weekend, gathering the 1,000 signatures required to obtain a state-wide petition. The amendment would legalize medical marijuana...
John Morgan, a prominent attorney in Orlando, is putting $3.5 million into legalization efforts for medical marijuana in Florida in memory of his father. Morgan’s father used...
