Politics

If you’ve been anywhere near the internet this week, you’ve probably seen the now-viral video of Morgan Freeman describing Vladimir Putin as a movie villain and calling on president Trump to make serious, concrete actions to investigate Russia’s role in influencing the …

Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte said that he would allow police to execute his son if allegations that he was involved in drug smuggling were proven to be true. Duterte won last year’s presidential election on the back of a brutal …

Members of the Maine Legislature’s Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization Implementation will soon debate newly proposed regulations that would allow adults to purchase cannabis online or from drive-thrus. The proposed rules are part of a new bill that sets …

Things are looking up for cannabis advocates in New Mexico, as three of the five candidates in the gubernatorial race support legalizing the adult use of cannabis. Despite the fact that Colorado neighbors New Mexico to the north—and has been …

Philippe Lucas has deep roots in Canada’s cannabis culture. After co-founding the Vancouver Island Compassion Society medical dispensary in 1999, Lucas applied himself to cannabis science, working as a graduate researcher with the Center for Addictions Research of British Columbia and …

Dr. Mehmet Oz made an appearance on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning to promote his upcoming televised interview with Ivanka Trump, but ended by exposing the “hypocrisy around medical marijuana.” The television host, better known as Dr. Oz, sat in …

Alphonse D’Amato Phillip Smith | September 20, 2017 Former Republican US senator from New York Alphonse D’Amato will become a lobbyist for the Marijuana Policy Project, the New York Daily News reported last week. The marijuana law reform group, which …

Delaware post-traumatic stress disorder patients now have easier access to the state’s medical cannabis program after Gov. John Carney signed the Bravery Bill into law last week, radio news station WDEL reports. The new law allows patients with PTSD to …

If the President tries to state statistics or facts in his belligerent speeches like yesterday’s address at the United Nations, you can bet your bottom dollar that he initially heard it on Fox News’ daily morning show, Fox and Friends. …

Now that the Sept. 18 deadline for cultivator and dispensary applications has passed, it’s time for the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission to review each of the 227 cultivator and dispensary applications filed as of 4:57 p.m. local time. The members …