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Pot Matters: Marijuana and the Criminal-Immigrant Industrial Complex
Federal marijuana laws are playing a key role in deporting both legal and undocumented immigrants. This practice will…
December 9, 2016
Pot Matters: Obama Supports Legalization
In an interview with Rolling Stone, President Obama has acknowledged that marijuana should be legalized and regulated like…
December 1, 2016
Pot Matters: Trump’s Reactionary Anti-Pot HHS Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump is nominating Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) to be the new Secretary of the Department of…
November 30, 2016
Pot Matters: Sessions for Attorney General? Game On!
Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Republican from Alabama, will be nominated to be attorney general in the upcoming…
November 18, 2016
Pot Matters: The Secret
Did you vote? Consider this: Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election because millions of voters who went to…
November 17, 2016
Pot Matters: Why Trump Can’t Stop Legalization
The Trump Administration cannot stop the demise of marijuana prohibition, no matter how hard it might try. Since…
November 14, 2016
Pot Matters: The Road Ahead
Editors Note: Of course, much of this is going to be depended on whether the new administration decides…
November 9, 2016
Pot Matters: The Shocking Truth About Edible Cannabis Candy
One of the new scare campaigns used by opponents of marijuana’s legalization is focused on edible cannabis products…
October 27, 2016
Pot Matters: The Most Dangerous Question for MMJ After the Election
In a world with legal cannabis for all, is there a need for a medical cannabis industry?…
October 26, 2016
Pot Matters: Closing the Deal on Legalized Cannabis
Another historic election for cannabis legalization is approaching; so far, the polls look promising. But whether the voters…
October 20, 2016
Pot Matters: Blacks Still Arrested at Extreme Levels in Massachusetts
Marijuana decriminalization in 2008 dramatically reduced marijuana possession arrests in Massachusetts, yet racial disparities persist in the…
October 6, 2016
Pot Matters: When Sin City Made Marijuana a Felony
Once upon a time the possession of marijuana in Nevada was a felony crime punishable by up to…
October 5, 2016
Pot Matters: The Drug Czar Is on Drugs
When it comes to marijuana, the nation’s drug czar and his office are still against it. This should…
September 28, 2016
Pot Matters: The ‘Should You Vote?’ Libertarian Dilemma
How are you going to feel the day after the election if you vote for Gary Johnson and…
September 26, 2016
Pot Matters: The Best Case for Legalization Emerges
The best case for the legalization cannabis is that the alcohol industry and the makers of opiate pain…
September 21, 2016
Pot Matters: Wasted
Is cannabis getting too potent? The answer here depends on what a consumer wants to do with it,…
September 19, 2016
Pot Matters: Pardon Tommy Chong
It’s time to petition the White House to give a pardon to Tommy Chong. Go on, click the…
September 16, 2016
Pot Matters: Marijuana Use Up on Campus—But Binge Drinking Is Down
Marijuana use by college students has spiked in the last decade, a new survey shows. Monitoring the Future…
September 14, 2016
Pot Matters: Cannabis and Motivation
A new study in the journal Psychopharmacology has some interesting results regarding concerns that marijuana use causes apathy,…
September 8, 2016
Pot Matters: The Happening
When does it happen? That was the questions posed to Dr. Norman Zinberg by observers of a groundbreaking…
September 5, 2016