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The man who was in charge of overseeing the Minnesota Office of Medical cannabis in its nascent phase, Manny Munson-Regala has taken the CEO job with one of the two state-sanctioned cannabis cultivators.
A leading Mexican journalist with deep knowledge of the drug war, claims that government corruption and back alley deals with the DEA carry a heavy load of responsibility for facilitating and encouraging the war.
The problem of unregulated pesticide use could be solved by federal legalization, or possibly even rescheduling. The feds are the ones who dictate which pesticides are safe but, due to the federally illicit nature of the plant, they are paying scant attention to its oversight.
Despite the report stating that cannabis use is down in the U.K., it seems to me the country is on the verge of a green revolution. David Nutt, a leading drug expert in the United Kingdom and professor at Imperial College London, issued a report comparing cannabis to other drugs.
Not only are people free to smoke weed—the weed is free. As of July 1, new Oregon laws go into effect making it legal for adults ages 21 and up to possess and use recreational marijuana. It’s legal to grow marijuana in the state—up to four plants per residence, out of public view—and share it with other of-age adults too.
A very wealthy family from Australia donated a cool 33.7 million dollars to the University of Sydney. This money, dubbed the Lambert Initiative, is to be expressly used for cannabis research.
The old saying goes “everything changes, nothing changes,” and in some ways the last few years in the United States have proved that human nature is strange but ultimately predictable.
Shabnam Malek founded the National Cannabis Bar Association. The mission of the NCBA is to be, "a specialty bar association dedicated to providing attorneys in the cannabis industry with educational and networking opportunities to help them better serve cannabis businesses."
A long-standing bureaucratic obstacle to privately-funded medical marijuana research has just been removed, effective immediately. The Department of Health and Human Services determined that the PHS review process is redundant with the FDA review, and that...
Some cops in Santa Ana, California raided a marijuana dispensary. Apparently, one security camera went unnoticed by the raiders. This camera recorded video of the cops ingesting marijuana edibles and becoming intoxicated.
Carrying cash is not a crime. But that didn't stop the federal government from seizing $11,000 from Charles Clarke. Charles, a 24-year-old college student, was flying home after visiting family and friends in Cincinnati, when he lost his entire life savings to civil forfeiture.
The disconnect between the classification of state-sanctioned cannabis and the federal prohibition of cannabis has created another impossible situation for the law to resolve. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on June 15th that companies can legally fire employees who use cannabis.
A study recently came out touting an increase in pot use among children under six. What they don't mention until the fine print further down the page is the increase amounts to roughly four children.
Even in one of the country’s most marijuana-friendly states, smoking pot off the job and away from work can still get an employee fired. That was the unanimous conclusion of the Colorado Supreme Court on Monday, in a closely watched workplace lawsuit involving ...
This will mark the first newly appointed DEA director in the era of legal weed. Rosenberg is rumored to want to shift the focus of the DEA away from cannabis and onto harder drugs, and is even open to considering a rescheduling of cannabis all together.
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a provision Thursday that would protect medical marijuana operations from federal crackdown in states where the substance is legal. The committee passed the measure, by a vote of 22-8, as an amendment to the Commerce, Justice and Science appropriations bill for fiscal year 2016.
The NBA recently made headlines when players made a concerted effort to push the league to legalize medical marijuana. This is hardly the first time that such a sentiment has been bandied about.
Delaware House lawmakers on Tuesday approved legislation that would treat simple marijuana possession and personal use by adults like a traffic violation, replacing criminal penalties with civil fines. The bill passed the House by a 24-14 vote, and now heads to the Senate. Gov. Jack Markell supports decriminalization.
