U.S. Justice Department Says It Will Ignore Federal Law and Prosecute People for Medical Marijuana Despite Congressional Spending Ban

Congress Passed One-Year Amendment in December Prohibiting Justice Department from Undermining State Medical Marijuana Laws; Members of both Parties Sought to Stop Prosecutions and Let States Set Their Own Medical Marijuana Policies Drug Policy Alliance Calls on President Obama to Rein in Out-of-Control Prosecutors A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) told the […]

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Lawmakers Move To Legalize U.S. Industrial Hemp Industry

Congressional leaders are moving full steam ahead to finally make hemp a legitimate agricultural crop in the United States. Lawmakers introduced the bipartisan Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015 on January 8th in the Senate (S. 134) and its counterpart (HR 525) on January 22nd in the House of Representatives. If passed, it would remove […]

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Hemp A Huge Missed Opportunity For The U.S.

For more than five decades, industrial hemp has suffered mis-classification because of its resemblance to marijuana. Both are members of the cannabis family, but where hemp is grown for food and other everyday uses, marijuana gets users high. Marijuana remains banned under the federal Controlled Substances Act, which theoretically extends to industrial hemp, though it […]

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Cuomo Administration Asks U.S. Department of Justice to Allow New York to Acquire Medical Marijuana From Other U.S. States for Critically Ill Children

Patients, Families, and Advocates Thank Cuomo For Federal Request, But Urge Additional State Action to Save Lives of Critically Ill Patients Patients Call on Governor to Create State-Based Emergency Access Program New York — Friday, the Cuomo Administration sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Cole following up on an earlier letter to U.S. Attorney […]

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