Jamaica's justice minister said Tuesday that legislation has been drafted to decriminalize marijuana on the Caribbean island where the drug has been pervasive but prohibited for a century.
Despite the uproarious crying of DJ Kevin Sabet and the Quack Pack, the uptick in dispensaries has not caused a proto-armageddon complete with dancing chainsaws and turtles in lingerie. On the contrary, it seems that dispensaries make exceptionally good neighbors in Denver business communities.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of October 01, 2014:
Starting October 20th, possession of small amounts of marijuana will be a civil offense in the city of Philadelphia. Mayor Michael Nutter signed Jim Kenney’s marijuana decriminalization bill in a ceremony at City Hall today.
A new landmark study published last week by the peer-reviewed journal Drug and Alcohol Review refutes the long-held belief that abuse of California's medical marijuana law is ubiquitous.
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Colorado embarks on a new era for its legal recreational marijuana industry Wednesday, the first day people who didn't previously own a medical-marijuana store can get into the recreational industry.
You will not enjoy this album; you will simply be compulsively forced into playing it on repeat for days on end. The inventing of genres has lead to Twenty One Pilots being lumped into the bizarre and newly birthed schizoid pop.
The job of attorney general is unbelievably hard, and it is easy to be critical. Yet on the day after Eric Holder's announced resignation, the outlines of his legacy are already clear based on the list of his significant accomplishments and the longer list of his significant failures.
In Japan, restrictions on cannabis are far more harsh than in the U.S. In fact, Japanese drug law is the harshest in the world, with penalties of 5 years in prison if caught growing, possessing or using cannabis.
Colorado's Supreme Court is considering whether its is lawful to fire someone who uses medical marijuana off the job when medicinal pot use is legal in the state, but still illegal federally.
Water use and other actions by the marijuana industry in the Emerald Triangle of Northern California and Southern Oregon are threatening salmon already in danger of extinction, federal biologists said Tuesday.
A new Maryland law depenalizing marijuana possession offenses takes effect this Wednesday. The new law does not reclassify penalties involving the possession of marijuana paraphernalia, which remains a criminal offense.
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Can you fire an employee for testing positive for marijuana? That question becomes more difficult to answer with every passing election. So far, 23 U.S. states have legalized medical marijuana, with Colorado and Washington voting to legalize recreational marijuana as well.
Road safety officials are expressing some concern over the loosening marijuana laws, fearing that with greater access and acceptability comes an increase in fatal crashes. This is a worthy endeavor, to be sure. But it is not an easily answered topic.
In the world-renowned California marijuana growing region known as the Emerald Triangle, a new source of anxiety for pot farmers has emerged: a paramilitary, private security firm known as LEAR Asset Management Corp.
One officer disagrees with the legalization of cannabis and has apparently been taking it out on the people of Seattle. In one incident, Jokela wrote that he found two people using cannabis and made them flip a coin to determine who would be given the citation.
