Embroiled in controversy and set back by a myriad of delays since voters expressed their desire for medical marijuana legalization in 2013, the state of Maryland finally appears ready to open the proverbial doors of its medical cannabis market. Many …
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Marijuana Reform Candidates and Issues Taste Victory on Election Night
The political fate of marijuana’s future in Virginia and New Jersey solidified after the polls closed Tuesday. While there were no statewide initiatives to legalize marijuana on the 2017 ballot, the synergistic momentum to reform existing marijuana laws made significant …
Read More »Virginia Senate Majority Leader Pushes Cannabis Decriminalization Bill – News
Virginia may be the next state in line to decriminalize low-level cannabis offenses, if new legislation proposed by the state’s Senate majority leader makes it through the state legislature next year. The Virginian-Pilot reports that State Senator Tommy Norment has …
Read More »Decriminalization Gets Public Hearing Before Virginia Crime Commission
On Monday, a public hearing will be held before the Virginia State Crime Commission to discuss the implications of decriminalizing personal amounts of marijuana in the Commonwealth. Under the proposed plan, individuals found in possession of their private reserves (less …
Read More »D.C. Cannabis Consumer Survey Suggests 11% of Government Employees Have Purchased Legal Weed – News
In the nation’s capital, cannabis leads a double life. In the city, possessing up to two ounces of cannabis is completely legal for anyone 21-years and older. Home grows are allowed, medical dispensaries sell a variety of licensed products, and …
Read More »New Report: 55% of Pot Smokers in Nation’s Capital are “White-Collar”
White-collar workers account for 55 percent of marijuana consumers in the nation’s capital while another 38 percent of Washington, D.C.’s tokers are reportedly “more likely to have a government job than the average person.” These were just some of the …
Read More »Meet the Cannabis Activist Who Gave Out Free Joints at Trump’s Inauguration – News
Washington D.C.-based activist Adam Eidinger has devoted much of his life to the good fight. A clever and unrelenting opponent of federal cannabis prohibition, the IMF and World Bank, Monsanto’s unlabeled GMOs, and other terrible things, he’s been arrested 15 …
Read More »Maryland Still Struggling to Find Footing in Medical Marijuana Landscape
Though Maryland legalized medical marijuana in 2014, diversity concerns in the licensing process have drastically slowed the implementation of dispensaries throughout the state. Maryland has enjoyed a long relationship with cannabis — one of the oldest in American history, in …
Read More »Congress May Finally Legalize Industrial Hemp This Year – News
A bill to legalize industrial hemp throughout the country is making progress in the House of Representatives, increasing the likelihood that the U.S. will join the majority of developed countries in cultivating hemp as a federally legal crop. Bill HR-3530, …
Read More »New Study Finds Legal Cannabis Equals Fewer Pharmaceuticals
“Legal access to cannabis may reduce the use of multiple classes of dangerous prescription medications in certain patient populations,” according to the results of a new study. Regardless of what some officials in the Trump administration believe, Americans have a …
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