The big innovation of the Powerwall is that it is a battery that can store enough energy to get people disconnected from utility companies (off the grid)....
The White House scolded Congress Thursday for meddling with the District of Columbia’s recent vote to legalize marijuana, saying federal lawmakers shouldn’t “interfere” in the matter. Within...
Illinois is becoming a hotbed in the legal marijuana debate. The state recently authorized medical marijuana and now recreational use is at the heart of conversation between...
Money may not grow on trees, but it apparently does grow on marijuana plants. If all 50 states legalized cannabis today, they’d be collectively raking in more...
Washington tax coffers could get a $25 million boost by next July and nearly $200 million by mid-2017 from legal marijuana, state economists estimate. The estimates for...
Here’s just a few of the estimates from Oregon’s Legislative Revenue Office if they were to legalize recreational weed this November: About 8% of the population, or ~322k Oregonians,...
In a much anticipated move, the US Sentencing Commission last Friday voted unanimously to retroactively apply previously approved reductions in federal sentencing guidelines to federal drug war...
Desert Hot Springs, a southern California town plagued with crime and financial destitution is now considering the legalization of medical marijuana dispensaries. Their hope is that it can...
An amendment, which blocks funding for D.C.’s new law that removes criminal penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana, passed the Appropriations Committee yesterday, the Washington...
As MPP previously reported, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) cosponsored an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act that would...
Colorado is now six months into recreational sales of marijuana, and by all rational accounts everything is going really well. Business is steady with customers both from the state...
After a long debate that had the US House of Representatives in session until after midnight, the lower chamber of Congress cast a historic 219 to 189...
In the coming days, members of the House of Representatives are expected to debate and vote on budget appropriation legislation for the Department of Justice. Representatives Rohrabacher...
Michigan’s Medical Marihuana Program (MMP) has a surplus of $23,534,952.42, accumulated over the Program’s almost 5-year existence, from overpayment of fees. MI’s legislature approved in this year’s budget...
The good folks over at Think Progress recently put out a very revealing article. In 2012 drug offenses accounted for the majority of total arrests. 82% of...
Last week, the Huffington Post covered a group of law enforcement officers who slammed Attorney General Eric Holder for releasing a marijuana policy memo stating the federal...
On Election Day, by an overwhelming majority of voters, Massachusetts legalized medical cannabis and approved the Act for the Humanitarian Medical Use of Marijuana. The law includes allowing patients to possess...
The regulation and taxation of marijuana for New York City residents age 21 and over would yield an estimated $431 million in annual savings and revenue, according...
