There’s a notion that if you want to be discrete, just don’t draw attention to yourself. We see this in movies when the hero dresses up as a repair person and infiltrates a secure location by looking as though...
Holland is famous for its tolerant approach to the cultivation, sale, and use of marijuana - especially in the nation's biggest city, Amsterdam. The Netherlands' position on the drug has long attracted hoards of tourists to its liberal coffee...
The U.S. War on Drugs had a profound effect on American society, but it disproportionately impacted communities of color. Many of the most recent states to legalize weed have created frameworks to try and undo some of those injustices....
Politics can be messy, as Americans have learned while seeing political football in the form of COVID relief. A couple of cannabis bills are also being impacted by the politics of compromise, but in one case the benefits could...
Just about everywhere you go there are “legal limits” to drinking alcohol and getting behind the wheel of a car. That’s because the effects of drinking on drivers is well documented. With cannabis legalization a relatively recent...
One of the biggest arguments for legalizing cannabis in various states has always been to reduce the size of the illicit black market drug trade. While this has been an idea, it’s been relatively difficult to collect and solidify...
Marijuana activists are crying foul over emails tied to the Democratic Party that show the alcohol industry trying to undermine cannabis legalization. But the controversy may be little more than a tempest in a teapot.
The revelations came in a...
Twenty years since Portugal decriminalized drugs, lawmakers in the country are now debating whether or not to fully legalize and regulate marijuana sales. And it could have implications for much of the rest of Europe.
Unlike in the US, marijuana...
In these supposedly divisive times, there’s one policy most Americans of all backgrounds can get behind: marijuana legalization. That’s the take, at least, from a new poll courtesy of The Hill/HarrisX Daily.
Who trusts polls though, right? They’ve had a...
In the past, legislators who drafted legislation to levy taxes on things like alcohol and tobacco wouldn’t always earmark those funds for other programs that might benefit the community, like schools or even anti-smoking campaigns. Rather, the taxes tended...
