The well-funded campaign opposing Florida’s medical marijuana ballot initiative released a new video advertisement calling the proposal a “scam to legalize pot.” Vote No on 2, the
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) is set to introduce an amendment to the 2017 military appropriations bill later this week, which will prohibit using funds to
Avicenna Products, a Denver company that produces weed concentrates, has voluntarily recalled a slew products after discovering residual levels of unauthorized pesticides in their supply. The
Baltimore Ravens’ Eugene Monroe has donated $80,000 to researchers studying the potential medical benefits of “cannabinoid products” for NFL players, CSN reports. The money backs
Aurora, Colorado is putting marijuana legalization to use as a tool for advancing social justice, directing money from weed sales to a local nonprofit working
A new Harris poll targeting urban gardeners on behalf of Green State Gardener found that the generation most interested in growing legal weed is millennials,
Marijuana legalization in Colorado brought the arrest rate down overall, but racial disparity in weed arrests has continued, a new report from the Colorado Department
A two-day conference about marijuana legalization in Nevada starts today, but legalization supporters have already decried it as more propagandistic than educational, the Las Vegas Sun reports.
The Ohio House of Representatives passed a medical marijuana bill Tuesday, sending the proposal to the Senate for a final vote. Ohio officials have said
That marijuana causes the onset of psychosis is a claim commonly employed to demonstrate the dangers of the drug, but studies touting the theory often
Linden, New Jersey appears to have some trouble keeping their officers in line. On Thursday, Linden Police Sergeant William F. Turbett III, 30, was charged
A revised bill to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio cleared a House panel on Thursday, readying the proposed legislation for a House vote next week.
The well-funded campaign opposing Florida’s medical marijuana ballot initiative released a new video advertisement calling the proposal a “scam to legalize pot.” Vote No on 2, the group behind the video, successfully defeated a similar medical marijuana measure in 2014. This year, they hope to raise a whopping $10 million—$2 million more than the amount that helped them narrowly defeat medical access
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) is set to introduce an amendment to the 2017 military appropriations bill later this week, which will prohibit using funds to enforce the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) policy banning its physicians from referring patients to medical marijuana programs. Under the amendment, VA medical providers would effectively be able to recommend medical marijuana to vets in
Avicenna Products, a Denver company that produces weed concentrates, has voluntarily recalled a slew products after discovering residual levels of unauthorized pesticides in their supply. The recall includes some 80,000 “individual packages” of a variety of medical marijuana concentrates distributed across the state, KUSA reports. Samples showed their products were contaminated by Myclobutanil, Imidacloprid, Spiromesifin, and/or Etoxazole—pesticides the Colorado Department of Agriculture has banned from marijuana cultivation.
Baltimore Ravens’ Eugene Monroe has donated $80,000 to researchers studying the potential medical benefits of “cannabinoid products” for NFL players, CSN reports. The money backs a “When the Bright Lights Fade” fundraising campaign for University of Pennsylvania and John Hopkins University School of Medicine research into whether cannabinoids like CBD can help treat sports-related injuries including pain, chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Aurora, Colorado is putting marijuana legalization to use as a tool for advancing social justice, directing money from weed sales to a local nonprofit working with the homeless. Last month, the Aurora City Council agreed to divert $220,0000 from marijuana-generated revenue to Colfax Community Network, a nonprofit that works to connect low-income families living in motels and apartments to community
A new Harris poll targeting urban gardeners on behalf of Green State Gardener found that the generation most interested in growing legal weed is millennials, followed by baby boomers. About 26 percent of millennials (up from 14 percent in 2015) and 18 percent of adults (up from 10 percent) would grow the plant if it were legal, the nationwide poll
Marijuana legalization in Colorado brought the arrest rate down overall, but racial disparity in weed arrests has continued, a new report from the Colorado Department of Public Safety found. A 46 percent decrease in marijuana arrests from 2012 to 2014 included a 51 percent decrease for whites, 33 percent decreases for Hispanics, and 25 percent decrease for African-Americans. The uneven distribution
A two-day conference about marijuana legalization in Nevada starts today, but legalization supporters have already decried it as more propagandistic than educational, the Las Vegas Sun reports. The conference, called "Marijuana Summit: What Health Care Professionals, Law Enforcement Officers, Employers and Members of the Court Need to Know," includes anti-legalization activist Kevin Sabet and other cheerleaders of prohibition, like an assemblyman who has been
The Ohio House of Representatives passed a medical marijuana bill Tuesday, sending the proposal to the Senate for a final vote. Ohio officials have said they expect the legislature to enact the law by the end of the month, and the program to be up and running in two years. The bill gives a commission two years to come up
That marijuana causes the onset of psychosis is a claim commonly employed to demonstrate the dangers of the drug, but studies touting the theory often lack the evidence to support it. In a recent letter to the prestigious journal the Lancet, co-authors Dr. Charles Ksir and Dr. Carl Hart explained how researchers overstate the link between psychosis and cannabis by
Linden, New Jersey appears to have some trouble keeping their officers in line. On Thursday, Linden Police Sergeant William F. Turbett III, 30, was charged with marijuana distribution and possession after a search of his home reportedly uncovered a “small amount of marijuana.” Turbett III had already been suspended without pay for an unrelated matter, the nature of which is
A revised bill to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio cleared a House panel on Thursday, readying the proposed legislation for a House vote next week. Despite the legislative victory, Ohioans for Medical Marijuana, a group working to put their own medical marijuana initiative for the November ballot, takes issue with the legislature’s restrictive plan. An amendment requiring physicians recommending marijuana
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