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It is nearly impossible to detect the precise moment when support for a change in social policy reaches the "tipping point", but for the marijuana legalization movement, that time was likely July 26, 2014, when the editorial board of the New York Times published...
A Southern California-based, pro-weed, anti-government activist who goes by the name Reverend Bud Green has claimed responsibility for replacing two American flags on the Brooklyn Bridge with two bleached white last week.
The good news: South Portland, Maine officials have informed us that we collected enough signatures to place an initiative on the November ballot that would make marijuana legal for adults.
GOP Congressman Scott Perry of Pennsylvania introduced a bill today that would make CBD oil legal under federal law...
Ricardo Pereyda, a University of Arizona alumnus and veteran diagnosed with PTSD, has begun a petition for the university to reinstate Sue Sisley, one of the foremost experts in using medical marijuana to treat PTSD.
Almost two-thirds of Australians support the legalization of cannabis for medicinal purposes, according to a new poll which coincides with a renewed push to relax the laws.
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 prisoners already serving their sentences.
On Sunday, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill that will add seizure conditions to Illinois’ medical cannabis program for both adults and minors. The new law also allows parents to seek permission for minors to access medical marijuana for other qualifying conditions.
As of midnight Wednesday, D.C.’s marijuana decriminalization law is officially in effect. The new law...
The Montana Project for Innovative Policy is working on a model for regulating medical cannabis in Montana and for the taxation and regulation of adult-use cannabis.
In San Jose, a group of lawyers, dispensary owners, and medical marijuana users named The Silicon Valley Cannabis Coalition organized the giveaway of 45,000 individual grams of pot – about 100 pounds total – in an effort to qualify a referendum for an upcoming ballot.
Ohio has recently seen increased support for allowing adults to choose to consume marijuana. In Ohio, possession of 99 grams or less is a non-criminal citation, and residents ...
A world where you can go on a Bud Crawl with your friends, walking the streets of the city at night and stopping in at various cannabars to sample different flowers, dabs, oils, edibles, tinctures, hashes and more.
ASA developed a grading scale for evaluating the laws and regulations applying to medical cannabis in each of the 23 states with comprehensive medical cannabis access programs...
It now looks extremely likely that the residents of the nation's capitol will vote in November on whether to legalize the possession and cultivation of small amounts of marijuana. Representatives of the DC Cannabis Campaign legalization initiative handed in some 58,000 signatures Monday morning, and they only need some 22,000 valid voter signatures to qualify for the ballot.
On Saturday, June 5, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Compassionate Care Act into law, making New York the 23rd state with an effective medical marijuana law.
Proponents of a statewide Oregon initiative to regulate the commercial production and retail sale of marijuana have turned in 145,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office.
This Independence Day I wanted to take a second to acknowledge how we really got here — freedom. Not the freedom to legally spark a doob, but the freedom to have ever had that conversation in the first place.
