Although Massachusetts lawmakers just signed legislation for recreational cannabis into law (albeit a compromise), the marijuana movement has been budding in the New England region for quite some time. For nearly three decades, the marijuana “Freedom Rally” in Boston Common has …
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Massachusetts: White House Seeks Medical Marijuana Patients’ Data
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker may have disdain for marijuana, but he truly loathes the fed’s recent request to turn over detailed information on Massachusetts’ marijuana patients. Trump’s deputy director of the National Marijuana Initiative (NMI), Dan Quigley, fired off a …
Read More »Trump’s Anti-Drug Office Wants Massachusetts’ Medical Marijuana Data
Dan Quigley, the deputy coordinator of the National Marijuana Initiative (NMI), a subset of the law enforcement wing of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, sent a request to Massachusetts health officials this week, asking for bundles …
Read More »The prohibition era is done
Published: Aug 25, 2017, 8:44 am • Updated: Aug 25, 2017, 8:44 am By Seattle Times Editorial Board Via The Associated Press. The following editorial was published in the SeattleTimes.com, August 17: U .S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is an …
Read More »The First Massachusetts Cannabis Commission Appointee Opposed Legalization in 2016 – News
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has just appointed an opponent of cannabis legalization to serve on a new state commission that will oversee and regulate the state’s legal marijuana industry. State Senator Jen Flanagan is the first of five appointees to …
Read More »First person appointed to Massachusetts cannabis reg board was anti-legalization
Published: Aug 24, 2017, 8:42 am • Updated: Aug 24, 2017, 8:47 am By Bob Salsberg, The Associated Press BOSTON — A Democratic state senator who opposed the ballot question that legalized recreational marijuana was named Wednesday by Republican Gov. …
Read More »MERRY JANE Reflects on America’s State of Disunion – News
Image via Like the rest of you, we at MERRY JANE watched anxiously as hordes of white nationalists, emboldened and abetted by Donald Trump, clashed with protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia over the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate general …
Read More »Politicians and Police Officials are Still Making Up Blatant Lies about Fentanyl-Laced Marijuana – News
America’s opioid epidemic is a national emergency. Even president Trump, who knows absolutely nothing about drug addiction, conceded earlier this month that declaring a state of emergency was a necessary tool in combating the prescription-pushed addiction crisis. But no matter …
Read More »Fear-Mongering Anti-Weed Group SAM Has Its Sights Set on Seattle’s Hempfest – News
Kevin Sabet and Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) are back, using fear-mongering tactics and misinformation to try and sway public opinion against state-approved, regulated weed. The nonprofit group has spent most of the year taking credit for killing a legalization proposal in …
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 …
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