Published: Aug 7, 2017, 9:35 am • Updated: Aug 7, 2017, 9:36 am By Michael Catalini, The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. — An effort to legalize marijuana at the federal level inched ahead as New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker …
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Sessions’ marijuana task force report gives him no ammunition to go after legal states
Published: Aug 4, 2017, 3:31 pm • Updated: Aug 4, 2017, 3:40 pm By Sadie Gurman, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The betting was that law-and-order Attorney General Jeff Sessions would come out against the legalized marijuana industry with guns …
Read More »Just 14% of Americans Believe Marijuana Should Be Illegal
Despite what Jeff Sessions or President Trump’s Opioid Commission would have you think, the vast majority of Americans are ready for some form of marijuana legalization. In the face of a long-rumored federal crackdown on individual state marijuana laws, a …
Read More »NFL is Interested in Studies of Cannabis for Pain to Treat it’s Players
The National Football League wrote a letter to it’s players association outlining steps to work with them to study the potential use of cannabis to help in the treatment of pain for NFL players. Currently, marijuana is completely banned from the …
Read More »Trump pressured Nieto to stop saying Mexico won’t pay for border wall
Published: Aug 3, 2017, 8:30 am • Updated: Aug 3, 2017, 8:46 am By Greg Miller, The Washington Post WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump made building a wall along the southern U.S. border and forcing Mexico to pay for it …
Read More »NFL open to study medical marijuana for players
The National Football League could be taking one step closer to allowing their players to use medical cannabis. The NFL recently wrote a letter to the league’s Players Association offering to work together to study the potential of marijuana as …
Read More »Sen. Cory Booker’s Marijuana Bill Is Really About Social Justice
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced game-changing legislation to amend the Controlled Substance Act (CSA). If passed, the bill would eliminate marijuana from the CSA, purge federal marijuana convictions, and punish those states that have cultivated racial inequality …
Read More »The U.S. May Deschedule Marijuana with The Marijuana Justice Act
The federal ban of marijuana may finally come to an end thanks to a bill submitted by New Jersey Senator,Corey Booker. The bill would deschedule marijuana with The Marijuana Justice Act, legislation that seeks to end the prohibition of the …
Read More »League considering working with NFLPA on marijuana study
(The Sports Xchange) – The NFL has reached out to the NFL Players’ Association in hopes of joining its study of using marijuana as a potential pain management tool for the league’s ailing players, according to The Washington Post. The …
Read More »White House opioid commission to Trump: “Declare a national emergency”
Published: Aug 1, 2017, 8:05 am • Updated: Aug 1, 2017, 8:11 am By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post The White House Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis issued a preliminary report on Monday stating that its …
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