Marijuana prosecutions, in correlation with a softening national perception, are falling across the country. However, this is not true in every corner of America. Hancock county, West...
State lawmakers have signed off on legislation, Senate Bill 2495/House Bill 2445, to reclassify and regulate industrial hemp. The legislation now goes to Republican Gov. Bill Haslam for his signature....
More prison guards gone bad, another Philadelphia cop gets in trouble, a Kentucky narc has problems, and a DC-area cop gets her hand slapped. Let’s get to...
A new poll was released Monday showing increased support for allowing medical marijuana in West Virginia. The poll, which was commissioned by MPP and conducted by Public...
Health.com recently used “government data on smoking (and quit) rates, smoking bans and restrictions, cigarette taxes and sales, and deaths attributable to smoking” to identify the top...
013 Federal agencies are beginning to work on the banking problem for medical marijuana businesses, the District of Columbia is looking at why its program is so...
A January poll showed that a majority of West Virginia voters support a law allowing medical marijuana in their state, and now their representatives are listening. The...
Medical marijuana bills were laid to rest in two states this week, changes in the medical marijuana law went into effect in another, and Massachusetts now appears...
Of the eighteen speakers at a West Virginia Health and Human Resources Committee hearing on medical marijuana, all were speaking in favor of legalizing cannabis for medicinal purposes....
There is plenty of action in state legislatures, the battle over rescheduling continues, a Maine dispensary gets called out for using pesticides, and much more. Let’s get...
013 Most of the action was at statehouses this week, but there was also news from the Harborside Health Center battle in California and an announcement that...
013 A bill introduced Tuesday in the West Virginia House of Delegates would require prospective teen drivers to pass three separate drug tests before receiving a full...
Delegate Mike Manypenny (D-Taylor) introduced a bill today to allow patients with debilitating medical conditions to use medical marijuana if their doctors recommend it. It has been...
A poll released today shows a majority of West Virginia voters think the state should enact a law allowing seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana if...
I’ve been organizing and advocating for marijuana policy reform in New Hampshire since 2007, and some of the successes have been very gratifying. After two near-victories on...
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies confiscated more than $1.5 billion worth of marijuana this year in Appalachia, a region where widespread unemployment may be enticing...
The West Virginia State Police is on track to seize and destroy more marijuana plants than last year despite the dry weather that likely scorched some crops. Sgt....
03:21am There’s something funny going on in Georgia, the DEA is investigating missing drug evidence in West Virginia, more prison guards get in trouble, and an...
In 2008 alone, Appalachia grew four billion dollars worth of marijuana. Read at the Washington Post on the lifestyle and economic realities of this green region and...
