Politics

When New York state achieved the dubious title as the epicenter of the coronavirus in the United States, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared in late March that the legislative session was effectively over after several state lawmakers tested positive for the …

Happy Juneteenth! Juneteenth marks the 155th anniversary – June 19, 1865 – when enslaved people in Texas learned about their emancipation and that slavery had ended. Though President Lincoln had actually signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, most Texas slaves …

Governor John Bel Edwards signed into law a broad expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program that will allow licensed physicians in Louisiana to recommend treatment for any patient they believe it would help. The extraordinary expansion from Louisiana’s current …

Latin America is the world’s new coronavirus epicenter, but Uruguay—a small South American nation of 3.5 million people—has so far avoided the devastation raging across the rest of the region. As of June 14, the country had 847 confirmed COVID-19 …

Governor Steve Sisolak (D) put forward a plan to pardon tens of thousands of Nevada residents who were previously convicted for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Gov. Sisolak made the clemency announcement on June 11 and placed the clemency …

With mass gatherings continuing around the county to protest police killings of Black Americans, a call for legalizing marijuana in New York for 2020 and defunding the police is growing among advocates. The call includes renewed demands to legalize marijuana. …

As people across the nation continue to protest against police brutality and violence, cannabis organizations are speaking out on the importance of ending the failed War on Drugs as a first step toward putting an end to repressive behavior toward …

Fidel Torres, 62, was expected to walk free in less than two years. Instead he died on May 20 in the Federal Medical Center in Lexington Kentucky from complications related to Covid-19. Convicted of conspiracy to possess and distribute more …

America will always remember the 1960s as a decade of unprecedented advancement, societal change, and tragedy. A man walked on the moon, and a wildly popular president was assassinated. Weed and LSD sparked the imagination of a counterculture revolution. And …

Marijuana legalization is pushed to the back burner again in New York. The issue fails to make it into New York’s state budget for 2020 as Governor Andrew Cuomo and state officials grapple with the coronavirus pandemic. In a press …