With signature-gathering deadlines for drug reform initiatives now having passed nearly everywhere, the picture of where voters will have a chance to vote on them in November becomes clearer—although not yet finalized because state officials ...
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 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“The federal government is out of touch and our cannabis laws are out of date.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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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