Oklahoma
Oklahoma: Voters To Decide In June On Medical Marijuana Initiative
Initiative proponents gathered sufficient signatures to place the issue before voters in 2016. However, the vote was postponed because of litigation over contested ballot title language. In a 7 to 1 ruling in April, justices rejected the state attorney general’s …
Read More »Oklahoma Will Vote on Medical Marijuana Legalization This June – News
Pebbles Trippet’s Achievement is Legal Marijuana in California
By Fred Gardner On New Year’s Eve, NBC San Francisco will air a documentary that gives activist Pebbles Trippet proper credit for advancing the movement to legalize marijuana. Peter Coyote narrates the 45-minute video, which uses the Ken Burns template …
Read More »Oklahoma Gov Says Medical Marijuana Vote Coming in 2018
A vote deciding the fate of Oklahoma’s medical marijuana initiative – better known as State Question 788 – will occur on or before November 2018. Announced via the Governor’s Facebook and Twitter account, Gov. Mary Fallin revealed her intention to …
Read More »Oklahoma May Vote Early on Medical Cannabis Legalization – News
Oklahoma may be one of the next states to legalize cannabis for medical use, thanks to the efforts of activists who collected enough signatures to get a medical marijuana measure onto next year’s state ballot. Oklahomans for Health, the main …
Read More »Two Oklahoman Stoners Broke Out of Jail to Get High With Their Girlfriends – News
Lead photo via Flickr user Sara Someone get Hollywood on the line! We’ve got a movie to sell. In a story full of action, romance, suspense, and weed, two prisoners in a Choctaw, Oklahoma jail stole a set of keys and engineered …
Read More »Oklahomans Will Vote on America’s Most Progressive Medical Marijuana Proposal in 2018 – News
Legal weed legislation has been sweeping the nation for the last decade, but while over half of the country now has some sort of access to medical or recreational bud, the nation’s most progressive markets are still largely concentrated on …
Read More »The EPA Will Deny All Requests to License Pesticides for Cannabis – News
Trump-appointed EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced this week that he will deny all requests to license pesticides specifically created for cannabis, creating yet another hurdle for the nation’s legally grey cannabis industry. Last month, California, Washington, Nevada, and Vermont applied …
Read More »Opioids second only to marijuana in illicit drug abuse rates
(HealthDay)—Abuse of prescription opioids is second only to marijuana abuse as the most common illegal drug problem in the United States, according to a report from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Analysis of 2012 to …
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