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Book your plane tickets now: Ecstasy, ketamine and a ton of other drugs are now legal to possess in Ireland, but only until 12 a.m. on Thursday, reports the Irish Times. On Tuesday the three-judge Court of Appeal ruled the 1977 Misuse of Drugs Act (Ireland's version of our Controlled Substances Act) illegal on a constitutional technicality.
While President Obama's stance on the issue of legalization in the past have been less than sympathetic, he has recently made statements predicting a bright future for the legalization movement in the U.S.
Younger voters overwhelmingly agree that marijuana is less damaging than alcohol, according to the findings of a Rare.us/Gravis Marketing poll released yesterday.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of September 17, 2014:
According to a Denver Post story, Colorado is scheduled to begin administering significant funding for the largest ever state-supported medical marijuana research grant program starting in early 2015.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of August 06, 2014:
A CBD-only (THC < 0.3%) bill introduced in Congress that would create an exemption to the CSA may seem like a great thing, but the THC percentage is extremely low and some worry it will limit not only the availability of strains, but also their effectiveness.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 30, 2014:
In January, Jacob Sullum called bullshit on Barack Obama's insistence that his administration had no control over how cannabis is classified. But can the stroke of an admitted stoner's pen change drug policy for potsterity? It turns out, the answer is yes — simply by changing...
US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) today filed an amendment to Senate Bill 2569, the "Bring Jobs Home Act," that would explicitly allow states to pass medical marijuana laws despite the provisions of the federal Controlled Substances Act.
Most of us were caught off-guard by the rush of states this year that approved the limited use of CBD-only marijuana extracts because these traditionally conservative states had heretofore rejected the medical use of marijuana.
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs love to beat their chests about how disruptive they are. But that bravery hasn't extended to one booming industry that's experiencing a 68 percent growth rate: the legal cannabis market.
The Drug Enforcement Agency is permitting Kentucky farmers to go forward with plans to engage in the state-sponsored cultivation of industrial hemp....
The federal government can move forward with seizure proceedings against a San Francisco medical-marijuana dispensary that lost its appellate bid.
Earlier this week, the Drug Enforcement Administration ordered that 250 pounds of hemp seed be seized at Louisville Airport in Kentucky...
Cannabis growers may soon find themselves with a lot less water if the U.S. government blocks the use of federal water for state-legal marijuana cultivation
After being misled by the DEA about whether it would release imported heed seed destined for the state's hemp research projects, the state of Kentucky is now suing the federal anti-drug agency,
Washington state can't make a member of a medical marijuana co-op pay thousands of dollars in marijuana tax because he's facing a federal crime for it, the man claims in Federal Court.
