Nebraska

Photo via LPETTET Scientific evidence confirming the medicinal properties of cannabis is getting harder and harder to ignore, and even conservative, Republican-dominated states are beginning to show support for medical marijuana. This week, Republican legislators in Tennessee proposed a bill …

A couple in their 80s was arrested in Nebraska on Tuesday for allegedly transporting 60 pounds of marijuana, worth several hundred thousand dollars, which they told the police they intended to give away as Christmas presents. The couple, Patrick Jiron, …

Published: Aug 3, 2017, 7:57 am • Updated: Aug 3, 2017, 12:05 pm By Bruce Kennedy, The Cannabist Staff Colorado’s cannabis industry may be centered in metro Denver, but there’s plenty of action around the state’s edges. Towns like Sedgwick, …

The gulf between individual states’ rights and federal drug laws has been a point of contention since California first legalized medical marijuana in the mid ‘90s. Now, with medical marijuana on the books in more than half of the country …

Last week, three United States senators were captured conversing on a veranda on Capitol Hill. After seeing the image, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska told his 138,000 Twitter followers that he and fellow Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) looked more like extras in the movie “Dazed and Confused” than elected government officials.
holy moly – it looks like @SenSchumer and I are smoking reefer outside a wedding…
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— Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) May 18, 2017

Sasse’s not wrong: the gym shorts make him look more like a college student than a Senator.