“From the opioid crisis to psilocybin’s potential w/ PTSD, it’s well past time we take drug use out of criminal consideration + into medical consideration.” The United States Food and Drug Administration approved further research ...
“While there are serious prospects for legalization at the statehouse in a handful of state this year—think Connecticut, New Mexico, New York, and Rhode Island—a number of other states are seeing marijuana legalization or medical marijuana initiative campaigns ...
“I don’t want to think about it.” A Kansas resident is facing 25 years in prison for growing a single marijuana plant. Larry Burgess, a cancer survivor, turned to marijuana when prescription drugs failed to ...
Patients often tell us that they consume cannabis as alternative and natural methods to pharmaceuticals – specifically pertaining to sleep assistance, pain relief and anxiety control. Currently, the medical use of cannabis is legalized in ...
As we welcome the new year, it’s worth taking a look back at last year to ponder how far the world has come on marijuana law reform—and how far it has to go. The wall ...
Drug reform achieved some major milestones in 2020 including reining in civil asset forfeiture and freeing thousands of inmates under the First Step Act. As the clock ticks down toward 2020, it’s worth taking a ...
Teen usage of vaping and e-cigarettes took a drastic jump in 2018, but are blanket approaches like bans the most effective solution? After a spate of negative publicity and illnesses related to black market vaping ...
In a historic first, a House committee passed the MORE Act, the first bill to take the initial steps toward decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level. The legalization of marijuana at the federal level just ...
Panic-driven e-cigarette bans conflate two separate concerns—youth vaping, and a new respiratory illness that appears to be caused by black market THC vapes using specific additives. According to the October 24 update from the Centers ...
Drug testing toddlers, felony ingestion charges, overcrowded jails and prisons, racial disparities–this state has it all. With endless miles of farmland shading into ever higher and drier terrain as one moves west, crossing the Missouri ...
The vaping crisis sweeping the nation is a reminder of the dangers of a lack of national uniform cannabis regulation and decriminalization. Both e-cigarettes and cannabis vaping related illnesses have recently hit the news with ...
“Our current drug laws distort the priorities of police, who end up spending too much time arresting people for being addicted to drugs instead of focusing on community safety.” The groundwork is being laid now ...
“Our results are consistent with theories that predict that marijuana legalization will displace illicit criminal organizations and decrease crime.” Two economists affiliated with the Philadelphia Federal Reserve looked at the effects of marijuana legalization on ...
Field drug tests are unable to distinguish between marijuana and hemp, and that has thrown a wrench in marijuana prosecutions in states that have legalized hemp only. (By P. Smith, Stop the Drug War) After ...
“The federal government is out of touch and our cannabis laws are out of date. I’m pleased that the House agrees, and we are able to move forward.” (StopTheDrugWar) In a history-making vote Thursday, the ...
Hemp plants are male, whereas, marijuana is female and that’s just one of the many differences when comparing hemp vs marijuana. It seems like you see the letters CBD everywhere today. You almost forget that ...
“The SAFE Banking Act would go a long way toward improving safety, transparency, access and justice in the cannabis industry.” On Thursday, the House Financial Services Committee voted on a proposed bill that would protect ...
As marijuana is increasingly legalized around the country, hemp and CBD are now decriminalized on the federal level. The 2018 Farm Bill passed the House and Senate and was signed into law on December 20, ...
“Legalizing marijuana is the smart thing to do and the right thing to do in order to advance justice and equality for every American.” A bill known as the Marijuana Justice Act which was first ...
“The era of hemp prohibition is over. Hemp is now permanently removed from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). It is forever deemed an agricultural commodity, no longer mistaken as a controlled substance, like marijuana.” December ...
2019 looks like it could be the year that Texas joins the majority of other states in legalizing medical marijuana. Texas is set to join the list of 33 U.S. states and Washington DC that ...
Blockchain technology could help in the movement to legalize cannabis. Few industries are as misunderstood, or as complimentary, as cannabis and blockchain. Both niches are young and exist in highly speculative markets with foggy regulatory conditions, ...
(StopTheDrugWar) It’s been a year we couldn’t wait to put behind us, but as 2018 comes to an end, we can look back on some advances on the international drug policy front, as well as ...
As Thailand moves to pass medical marijuana, foreign businesses threaten to push local Thai businesses out of the new market. Medical marijuana may soon become a reality in Thailand. With the legalization, the country would ...
Cops sold seized marijuana on the black market and veiled the money laundered with real estate deals, a lawsuit alleges. A Texas man has filed a federal lawsuit against police officers alleging they are part ...
Every field of interest comes with its own terminology. In the world of CBD, it can seem like there are many terms that are being thrown out there, such as CBD oil, hemp oil, THC ...
(StopTheDrugWar) Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced out of office Wednesday after less than two years in office, and while there is intense concern about the impact the move could have on ongoing investigations ...
In November the UN will review marijuana’s drug status, a move that prompted the FDA asked the public for comments on marijuana and the potential impact of reclassifying marijuana’s drug status. Who says the federal ...
“We have an opportunity to correct course if Democrats win big in November. There’s no question: cannabis prohibition will end.” Last week, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) unveiled a plan for a Democratically-led House to push ...
Since 2007 - the beginning of the Great Recession - the economy of Oregon has added more jobs via the alcohol and marijuana industries than its popular technology sector, according to the state’s Office of ...
Marijuana sales in Colorado are still setting new records, but the rate of growth has slowed down. By August of this year, Colorado had hit $1 billion in annual marijuana sales, the fastest the state has ...
(Stop The Drug War) As of Wednesday, October 17, marijuana is legal in Canada. Our northern neighbor becomes the second country to fully legalize weed (after Uruguay led the way in 2013), and the first ...
Marijuana legalization is on the ballot in multiple states this November while support for legalization is continuing its upward trend. A new poll released Monday from the Pew Research Center says that now 62 percent ...
Cops in Vancouver can smoke pot – the policy represents one of the more lax marijuana policies in Western Canada. In a rejection of a 24-hour abstinence period, the Vancouver Police Board revealed it is okay for ...
The campaign by pro-cannabis activists to legalize marijuana worldwide received a major boost in South Africa when a top court decriminalized its use in the country on Tuesday. With the ruling, South Africa became the ...
Up to 20,000 marijuana convictions in New York City may soon be wiped out thanks to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. Gonzalez is leading the charge in NY to dismiss convictions for marijuana offenses that ...
(Stop The Drug War) Nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana since 2012, but all of those states have been in the West or the Northeast. This year, with marijuana legalization on ...
The United Nations (UN) is launching its first ever review of marijuana’s classification under international drug treaties. The move comes just after the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) announced that cannabidiol (CBD) does not need to ...
(Stop The Drug War) Much attention this year has been focused on marijuana legalization efforts in state legislatures, particularly in the northeast and mid-Atlantic states, but unless Albany and Annapolis and Trenton get their acts ...
(StoptheDrugWar.org) Even as he defended federal marijuana prohibition, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions last Thursday conceded that states have the right to pass their own marijuana laws. Sessions, an avowed foe of marijuana legalization, has ...
(StopTheDrugWar.org) State Attorney General Gurbir Grewal has shaken up New Jersey’s marijuana politics with an announcement Tuesday that he has ordered county and municipal prosecutors to defer all marijuana-related cases until early September. The move ...
(Drug Reporter) Getting caught growing a few pot plants in Pennsylvania could lead to a criminal charge and a likely sentence of probation, but for a Lehigh Valley man, it was a death sentence. This ...
Epidiolex, a new drug to treat seizures is the first-ever FDA approved cannabis-based drug. Imagine being a parent with a child who has hundreds of uncontrollable seizures each week. This is the heartbreaking fate of ...
Nine percent of Americans who have used marijuana end up developing marijuana dependence. This figure is much higher at 33 to 50 percent among those who consume it daily. Almost 4 million Americans are near ...
Today voters throughout California are exercising their constitutional rights by participating in primary elections. Dianne Feinstein has been a member of the United States Senate since 1992 and is wildly expected to move on to ...
Whenever Rastafarians are mentioned, the image that comes to mind is Bob Marley, or some other reggae artist. After that, people conjure up images of dreadlocked persons smoking ganja. While those two things are part ...
TRUMP IS COMING FOR OUR WEED! CHECK OUT THIS RESISTANCE PODCAST! Listen⇒KVoice of Resistance This is your Resistance podcast. On this episode, Jeff, the racist elf, Sessions wants our weed! Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and ...
In medical marijuana news: a new drive-thru is opening in Arizona. While it may not be the nation’s first, for marijuana activists it’s a reason to celebrate in uncertain times. Medical marijuana has entered the ...
Marijuana decreases crime: dispensaries actually increase the ‘walkability score’ of a neighborhood which deters criminal activity. “Good people don’t smoke marijuana.” – Jeff Sessions, Attorney General “I reject the idea that America will be a better ...
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