Category: Opinion

90% of Americans Want Legal Weed. Lawmakers in Both Parties Keep Punishing Them for It.

NORML’s Paul Armentano on the two-front war against cannabis consumers: Republican lawmakers overturning or attacking voter-approved legalization in South Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Texas and Idaho, while Democratic lawmakers in Michigan, Maryland and Minnesota hike taxes high enough to push consumers back into the illicit market.

Cannabis Costs $15 in One State and $52 in Another. Bourbon Doesn’t.

An eighth costs $15 in Washington and $52 in Kentucky, where every buyer is a patient. Former Massachusetts cannabis regulator Shawn Collins uses High Times’ price index and a bourbon thought experiment to explain why state borders force every legal market to rebuild an entire supply chain, what license caps cost patients, and what’s holding the border shut.

Cannabis Cured Me Twice, and I’ll Show You My Medical Records

Seven years ago, Ed Rosenthal’s PSA numbers spiked and a biopsy confirmed prostate cancer. He declined the interventions his doctor laid out, remained under active surveillance and took CBD. A month ago, six biopsy cores, including samples from areas where cancer had previously been found, showed no cancer. When Colorado voters legalized cannabis in 2014, I was attending a big

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Cannabis Costs $15 in One State and $52 in Another. Bourbon Doesn’t.

An eighth costs $15 in Washington and $52 in Kentucky, where every buyer is a patient. Former Massachusetts cannabis regulator Shawn Collins uses High Times’ price index and a bourbon thought experiment to explain why state borders force every legal market to rebuild an entire supply chain, what license caps cost patients, and what’s holding the border shut.

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