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Rates of current and lifetime marijuana use among Colorado high school students has dropped since the state made marijuana legal in 2012, according to a press release distributed today by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
On Tuesday, MPP and allied advocates launched a ballot referendum committee to make marijuana legal, taxed, and regulated for adults in Massachusetts. The committee is called...
Despite marijuana policy reform leading in the polls nationwide, marriage equality beat it to the finish line in Rhode Island
week, the biannual International Drug Policy Reform Conference will take place in Denver, Colorado.
MPP director of communications Mason Tvert recently sat down with Andrew Sullivan at The Dish to discuss the state of marijuana policy.
Protesters gathered in Denver's Civic Center Park Monday to slam Proposition AA, the marijuana tax proposal that will be decided by voters in November.
Mason Tvert of Marijuana Policy Project was recently on "Geraldo At Large" to talk about the "New Beer" ad that was pulled from a recent NASCAR event.
"We certainly hope they're successful...Turning Florida medical marijuana green would be a big deal." -- Mason Tvert
“Our federal government has been exaggerating the harms of marijuana for decades, but at this point it has gone off the deep end,” -Mason Tvert of the MPP
the prevalence of schizophrenia and psychoses has remained stable or declined when marijuana use increased significantly among the general populace.
Dear Dad, I Smoke Weed, Happy Father's Day.
Vice.com has a nice synopsis of the state of the cannabusiness industry.
The Hash Bash is the oldest annual cannabis rally in America, and has been held in Ann Arbor since 1972.
It is not surprising that ex-heads of the marijuana prohibition industry are taking action to maintain the policies that kept them in business for so long.
Mason Tvert is largely credited with the legalization of marijuana in CO. He founded SAFER, co-directed the Amendment 64 campaign and now works with MPP.
"It's entirely unconstitutional and it'll just subject the state to costly litigation," says Tvert, of the Marijuana Policy Project and critic of Project SAM, an organization that opposes legalization.
MPP is taking issue with former Congressman Patrick Kennedy’s plan to force marijuana consumers into treatment and marijuana “education” classes, which...
Mason Tvert is now the communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, the national lobbying group...
