The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to decide whether marijuana should reclassified under federal law in “the first half of 2016,” the agency said in a letter to senators. DEA, responding to a 2015 letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and seven other Democratic senators urging the federal government to facilitate research into marijuana’s medical benefits, […]
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Patients and Their Families Gather in Albany to Demand Changes to New York’s Broken Medical Marijuana Law
Advocates: Too Few Patients Can Access Medicine Through the Overly Restrictive, Expensive Program Slate of Bills Would Remove Barriers to Participating in the Program and Expand Patient Access Albany – Today, dozens of advocates gathered in Albany to urge legislators to support a slate of bills that would amend the Compassionate Care Act, New York’s […]
Three Surprising Industries That Would Benefit If Marijuana Was Legalized
When it comes to fast-growing industries, there may be none with better growth prospects than marijuana. Based on some estimates, legalizing marijuana across the country could lead to a $ 35 billion market. Separately, NerdWallet has suggested that legalizing marijuana would generate around $ 3.1 billion in annual tax revenue for states and potentially the […]
TUESDAY: Patients and Their Families Will Gather at State Capitol to Demand Changes to New York’s Broken Medical Marijuana Program
Advocates: Too Few Patients Can Access Medicine Through the Overly Restrictive, Expensive Program Slate of Bills Would Remove Barriers to Participating in the Program and Expand Patient Access Albany – On Tuesday, April 12th, dozens of advocates gathered in Albany to urge legislators to support a slate of bills that would amend the Compassionate Care […]
Senators Reject Medical Marijuana Bill in South Carolina
On Thursday, South Carolina Senators voted 7-4 against a bill that would have created a safe and accessible medical marijuana program in the state. Read article here: High Times
Vermont: Legal Marijuana Could Be Doomed for 2016
While marijuana advocates have been looking to Vermont as being the great green mountain of hope in terms of finally getting weed legalized somewhere in the United States by way of the state legislature, a recent turn of events brought down by the House of Representatives… Read article here: High Times
Pot Matters: Bernie Sanders and Marijuana
Bernie Sanders really wants to be president. He’s doing everything he can to turn out the youth vote, and this includes coming around to accepting the proposition that the nation’s marijuana laws have to change. So far so good. But his positions on marijuana, … Read article here: High Times
Medical Marijuana In The US Should Be Governed By Science, Not Politics
In 2013, Patrick and Beth Collins were desperate. 13-year-old Jennifer, the younger of their two children, faced a life-threatening situation. In response, the Collins family took extreme measures—sending Jennifer thousands of miles away in the company of her mother. Beth and Jennifer became refugees from a capricious government whose laws threatened Jennifer’s health, the family’s […]
Could This Be The Year Of Medical Marijuana And Decriminalization In Mexico?
Mexico could legalize certain forms of medical marijuana as well as raise the threshold for what is considered decriminalized consumer possession by the end of this year, and may begin considering licit domestic cultivation of substances including cannabis and opium, say senior officials and experts. In November 2015, Mexico’s supreme court ruled that in the […]
Confusing State Marijuana Laws Lead to Unjust Raids
Michigan's legislature needs to enact clearer laws regulating the cannabis industry—the current law does not address the legality of dispensaries and does not allow for marijuana to be sold from them. Read article here: High Times