Seven marijuana activists were arrested on federal charges yesterday for offering free joints to Congressional staff, even though they were in compliance with Washington D.C. laws.

On 4/20, the D.C. Cannabis Campaign (DCMJ) brought 1,227 joints to offer to any willing Capitol Hill staff in order to show support for House bill H.R. 1227 , which would cut back federal cannabis prohibition. The activists deliberately set up on non-federally-owned land, so that they would remain in accordance with D.C. law, which allows individuals to possess and give away small amounts of marijuana.

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California’s Central Valley is in the middle of a transition. The region produces nearly half of the country’s produce, but thanks to recreational cannabis legalization and gigantic greenhouses, the area is also becoming a hub for big business cannabis production.

A study published this week in the Health Affairs journal reports that Medicaid patients in states with legal medical marijuana were using fewer prescription drugs than patients in states where MMJ is prohibited. The study looked at quarterly data on all fee-for-service Medicaid prescriptions between 2007 and 2014. The researchers found “statistically and economically meaningful reductions in prescription drug use associated with” medical marijuana laws.

Medicaid will not reimburse patients for medical marijuana treatments, thanks to the Schedule I status of cannabis.

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If the results of the latest CBS News poll paint an accurate portrait of the population’s overall stance of marijuana legalization in the United States, all of those Congressional forces taking up space on Capitol Hill may soon have no choice but to give the issue some serious consideration.

The new survey, which was posted today, on the stoner’s holiday 420, finds that 61 percent of the America public now believes that marijuana should be taxed and regulated in a manner similar to alcohol and tobacco.

4/20 might be a celebratory time for most cannabis users across the nation, but marijuana advocates are not losing sight of the uphill battle. After this weekend's post-holiday festivities settle down, dozens of marijuana activists, including a number of military veterans, will head to the steps of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. to spark up joints.

The event, “Monday @ High Noon”, will take place on April 24, and is meant to call attention to the harsh federal stance that has hindered the cannabis industry from blossoming.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly may have gotten a bit ahead of himself earlier this week, when he told a portion of the American public sitting at home watching “Meet the Press” that marijuana was “not a factor” in the War on Drugs.

Perhaps he didn’t consider his comments would soon spread across the Internet like wildfire and be covered by virtually every major news organization across the nation.

Nevertheless, it appears that Kelly’s running of the mouth may have steamed his boss over at of the Justice Department, who just so happens to be pot-hating U.S.

The Colorado Department of Transportation has reported that the number of citations for driving under the influence of marijuana dropped by 33.2% in the first quarter of 2017, compared to the first quarter of 2016. The Colorado State Patrol reported that only 155 people were cited for pot-impaired driving between January and March of this year, compared to 232 cited during the same months of last year.

When President John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev brought the world to the brink of annihilation in 1961 over the precarious position of Cuba on the Cold War-era map of the world, it was the closest the U.S. and Russia had come to making direct war on each other without any Chinese middlemen adding enough distance between, as Commodore Perry called them, the “Saxon and the Cossack.” The crisis in Cuba was an insane piece of dick-measuring and Kennedy’s darkest moment, a staring contest that could have wiped out all life, culture, and history.

Forget Christmas and Black Friday, for cannabis retailers the jolliest and most fruitful day of the year takes place on April 20, the international “high holiday” for tokers everywhere. States with recreational legalization are bracing themselves for an extremely profitable day, and the Denver seed-to-sale software provider MJ Freeway has the numbers to support their expectations.

According to their data, average 4/20 sales in 2016 amounted to almost twice the amount of any other standard day, creating an average of over $24,000 in revenue for each retailer.