By Brian Melley LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman who owns a business that claims to be California’s largest landlord of marijuana businesses sued the city of San Bernardino to overturn its pot regulation ordinance that could bar her from …
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Trump plan to execute ‘big drug pushers’ will do nothing to stop opioid overdoses
On March 19, President Donald Trump unveiled his administration’s plan to stem the opioid overdose crisis in the United States, which has claimed some 350,000 lives since 2000. Among other measures, it proposes severe punishment for people involved in the …
Read More »Man Threatens to Kill Virginia Congressman over Weed Policy
It’s reefer madness in reverse: a Virginia man was arrested for threatening to kill his local congressman over weed. Continue reading at theweedblog.com
Read More »Dutch Cannabis Activist Attempts Suicide to Call Attention to Country’s Restrictive Drug Policies – News
Virginia Man Arrested for Threatening to Shoot Pro-Cannabis Congressman – News
According to court documents, 69-year-old Wallace Godwin was arrested last Friday after telling members of Representative Scott Taylor’s staff that he would bring his gun to an event that the congressman was scheduled to speak at over the weekend. Godwin …
Read More »Solving the Dutch Pot Paradox: Legal to Buy, but Not to Grow
BREDA, Netherlands — Acting on an anonymous tip about marijuana growers, Dutch police officers last month raided a basement laboratory in Best, a small village about 15 miles from the Belgian border. The officers found 539 plants in four growing …
Read More »Canadian who ran airborne drug-smuggling ring pleads guilty
By Gene Johnson SEATTLE (AP) — A Canadian man who ran a helicopter-based drug-smuggling ring years before Washington state legalized marijuana pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Thursday, after fighting his extradition to the U.S. for much of the past …
Read More »Cannabis remains banned in the United Kingdom
The legalisation of medicinal cannabis is on the brink of a breakthrough in the United Kingdom. But instead of debating the new bill, members of parliament talked it out. Scandalous! The British MP Paul Flynn was beside himself with rage. …
Read More »Interview: Rich Homie Quan’s Spirit is Higher Than Ever
By Shirley Ju “I be feelin’ like the man when I walk through!” I still remember when I played “Walk Thru” by Rich Homie Quan in the car as my girl and I were on our way to a Clippers …
Read More »Despite Increasing Support for Legalization, Cannabis Still Prohibited in France
By Aurelien Bernard In France, nothing has changed since a 1970s law prohibited the possession and consumption of cannabis, including in a private place. This law was initially intended to redirect consumers toward the health care system while attempting to dismantle …
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