Around the U.S. voters have had opportunities to vote on state laws, and in many cases in the past decade they’ve chosen to legalize marijuana. In state after state where legalization has been put to popular vote, there have...
America’s harmful War On Drugs didn’t just damage communities by throwing people in jail for long sentences due to low-level drug crimes, it weakened trust between law enforcement and communities. That is, if there had been a good relationship...
It seems that a few decades can really make a difference in public opinion. In the dawn of the 20th century, the powers that be created a racially-tinged campaign in the USA to demonize cannabis with the intent of...
You’d have to be living under a rock to not be aware of the massive protests across the U.S. in the wake of the death of George Floyd. The outrage is justified, given the disproportionate numbers of black men...
Are you planning to travel soon? As some parts of the country “reopen” to tourism and business, we return to the notion of cannabis tourism. That’s where you travel to a state where weed is legal to enjoy the...
A welcome twist in legalization in the U.S. is an increasing awareness of the damage done by prohibition. There are thousands of Americans languishing in jails because of relatively minor offenses, or offenses that today wouldn’t even be an...
As Borat would say, “Great success.” In a new survey by YouGov, folks living in nine of 11 states with legal adult-use cannabis see the end of prohibition as a success of the highest order.
The survey was conducted between...
Believe it or not, there are Ben & Jerry’s superfans. The brand definitely has a cult following, in addition to the occasional purchaser given the brand’s wide distribution of its fun-filled ice cream products. It’s founders are unabashed hippies,...
One of the many claims made by cannabis prohibition advocates was that if you allowed legal pot to be sold in a neighborhood, property rates would plummet. Perhaps the logic was that no one would want to be “around...
As marijuana legalization continues to spread slowly across the USA, national organizations have had to grapple with the realities of the situation. In particular, in states where cannabis is legal and could be consumed for medical purposes and under...
