Photo via Flickr user Gage Skidmore During a news briefing about America’s deadly opioid epidemic yesterday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions once again levied threats against the country’s state-approved cannabis industry, returning to the downright false narrative that the anti-weed top …
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Boston Man Misses the Mark With Satirical Medical Marijuana Rant at Zoning Board Meeting – News
Lead photo via Youtube user Boston City TV A Boston, Massachusetts zoning board meeting took a strange turn on Tuesday, when discussion about the proposed site of a new medical marijuana dispensary was interrupted by a not-so-funny comedian, who used …
Read More »Grassroots Campaign Helped Defeat Cannabis Prohibition in One Massachusetts City – News
Cannabis may be legal in Massachusetts, but many cities and towns are taking steps to prevent cannabis entrepreneurs from opening up shops in their neighborhoods. Although recreational cannabis was legalized throughout the state by a ballot measure in 2016, a …
Read More »Massachusetts: Expungement and Criminal Justice Reform Heads to The House
Passed by the Massachusetts Senate in late October, a bill that would allow individuals convicted of marijuana possession to expunge their criminal records will be debated by the full House Monday. The bill named An Act Relative to Criminal Justice …
Read More »Pot on a Plane: Uncovered FAA Regulation May Allow Canna-Legal States to Ship Marijuana – News
Cannabis is currently legal throughout all of Massachusetts, but federal law prohibits the transportation of the drug between the mainland and islands like Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. However state officials may have finally found a solution to the problem in …
Read More »Massachusetts Finally Advances Improvements to Medical Cannabis Program – News
Massachusetts officials have announced that a long-delayed set of regulations intended to increase patients’ access to medical cannabis are finally ready. The new rules were finalized by the state’s Department of Public Health back in September 2016, but were put …
Read More »Cannabis Advocacy Groups in Maine Criticize Rewrite of Voter-Approved Legalization Bill – News
Lead image via The Maine Legislature is getting closer to passing a complete legislative rewrite of the voter-approved ballot measure that legalized recreational cannabis in the state, but one of the state’s leading cannabis advocacy groups has criticized the rewrite …
Read More »ACLU Report: Black Pennsylvanians Are 8 Times as Likely to Be Arrested for Weed Than White People – News
Lead photo via Flickr user Chris As legal weed spreads across the country like, well, a weed, it can sometimes feel like America’s war on drugs is fading. With pot shops across California, Colorado, Massachusetts, and more, it would seem like cops …
Read More »Senators Murkowski and Warren Criticize Trump’s Response to the Opioid Crisis – News
According to Alaska Public Media, two members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee sent a letter to the White House this week asking President Trump to follow through on his promises to treat the opioid epidemic as …
Read More »Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin Will Veto Any Legislative Attempt to Legalize Recreational Marijuana – News
With California, Massachusetts and Maine debuting recreational marijuana markets next year, it may seem like legal weed is everywhere. But beyond the country’s progressive coastal hubs, huge swaths of America are still being thrown in jail for cannabis crimes, with …
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