Medical marijuana advocates Americans for Safe Access (ASA) issued a report today that analyzes the Obama Administration’s latest enforcement guidelines for federal prosecutors in states that regulate...
On Thursday November 21, US law enforcement agents, along with local police officers raided 14 medical marijuana locations around Colorado (including dispensaries, grow warehouses and two private...
Yesterday’s raids in Colorado were the largest dispensary crackdown in the state’s history. US Attorney John Walsh claims the raided dispensaries violated federal guidelines.
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...
Legal cannabis is predicted to outpace the speed of global smart phone expansion. It is expected that more than $1.43 billion in legal cannabis will be sold...
A Michigan couple get their child back, New Jersey gets its second dispensary, and Washington regulators get an earful over moves to do away with patient home...
Reported this week in the Daily Herald: Community banks and credit unions are ready and willing to provide financial services to entrepreneurs in the state’s new legal...
Drug Policy Alliance International Drug Policy Reform Conference ran from October 23, 2013 until October 26, 2013. The event boasted a plethora of cannabis activists and took...
Just days after legal cannabis patient Ronnie Chang’s federal incarceration came to an end freeing him to return to his elderly mother, Crispin Price sits in court...
In a surprising twist, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is considering relaxing their response towards people trying to travel with their medical marijuana. So far, 20 states...
In a great article on Policymic, Christopher Blakely shoots down 8 bits of misinformation still being spread about marijuana and legalization by the White House despite our...
The feds back off in some Southern California asset forfeiture cases, an Iowa newspaper tells local authorities to back off from prosecuting a cancer patient, and several...
Last night on Comedy Central satirical news show The Colbert Report, The Rev. Sir Doctor Sen. Stephen T. Mos Def Colbert, D.F.A., Heavyweight Champion of the World** covered recent...
On Bloomberg, Alison Vekshin reports the spread of acceptance of legal marijuana, and the acceleration of that spread caused by the DOJ’s memo that they will not...
“My children are going to grow up without a father! Over what?!” shouted Sarah Schrader, longtime girlfriend of Jose Gutierrez and the mother of his two young...
The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear an appeal from medical marijuana advocacy groups who had challenged the DEA’s decision to maintain marijuana’s status as a...
Law enforcement-based efforts criminalizing the possession of illicit substances have largely failed to reduce drug production, potency, or access, according to an assessment of global drug interdiction...
Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown last week signed legislation, Senate Bill 566: the California Industrial Hemp Farming Act, into law. The measure reclassifies varieties of cannabis containing minute...
