A new study suggests marijuana advocates are more likely to win the fight for legalization at the federal level if they pursue medical cannabis reforms first.
Efforts are underway to reschedule marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act so the drug...
The governor of Connecticut signed a bill into law that will legalize recreational cannabis use for adults 21 and older starting July 1, 2021. The measure allows for adult-use sales but they’re not expected to launch until next year.
The...
As more states legalize, the impetus to legalize at the Federal level keeps building momentum. However, it may be that the state that housed the very Constitutional Congress that created the U.S. could be the next state to legalize...
While it’s possible that cannabis will be legalized in the next few years, that doesn’t mean that “illegal” growers will get a pass. In fact, a powerful Congressional committee is considering more effective ways of catching and prosecuting anyone...
It's a big problem in the world of legal marijuana. In states where the drug is allowed for any adult use, public consumption of any kind is banned. That means stoners may only use their cannabis on limited private...
In the days of peak pot prohibition, ad campaigns were run that attempted to paint “stoners” as lazy losers who were constantly de-motivated after smoking weed. While the anti-pot campaign messaging has morphed over the decades since the 1920’s,...
Should people who do a crime that is illegal one year but not the next remain in jail? While we’re obviously talking weed here, there is some precedent. Unfortunately, not a good one. Back in the prohibition days --...
There was once a prevailing theory that mere access to drugs, or even exposure to them at any level, would warp the teenage mind to the extent that a kid was compelled to “try reefer” or whatever drug you...
Often for pot smokers, legalizing weed sales is only half the battle, especially if you’re a tourist making use of another jurisdiction’s more relaxed cannabis laws. Sure, you can buy pot, but then what?
Lighting up anywhere that you do...
States across the nation continue to carry the wide sweeping duty of wiping out old marijuana convictions for many citizens that have long been hindered in their lives by past criminal records following them around. In recent years there’s...
