If you’re into talking about weed online - and let’s face it, you are - you’ve most likely clicked your way over to Reddit’s cannabis subsection /r/trees to check out home-grows from around the world or chat with like-minded stoners. You definitely aren’t alone, and as part of yesterday’s 4/20 celebration, we teamed up with /r/trees and Congressional Cannabis Caucus member and just flat out chill Oregon legislator Earl Blumenauer for a special holiday edition of “Ask Me Anything.”
Members of Congress are now doing AMAs on the subreddit devoted to marijuana use, truly America is already great.
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Pot Activists Face Federal Charges for Offering Free Joints to Congressional Staff
Seven marijuana activists were arrested on federal charges yesterday for offering free joints to Congressional staff, even though they were in compliance with Washington D.C. laws.
On 4/20, the D.C. Cannabis Campaign (DCMJ) brought 1,227 joints to offer to any willing Capitol Hill staff in order to show support for House bill H.R. 1227 , which would cut back federal cannabis prohibition. The activists deliberately set up on non-federally-owned land, so that they would remain in accordance with D.C. law, which allows individuals to possess and give away small amounts of marijuana.
This didn't stop the U.S.
California’s Central Valley “Weed Nuns” Grow Cannabis to Help Women Build Independent Lives
California’s Central Valley is in the middle of a transition. The region produces nearly half of the country’s produce, but thanks to recreational cannabis legalization and gigantic greenhouses, the area is also becoming a hub for big business cannabis production.
Study Finds Federal Legalization of Medical Marijuana Could Save $1 Billion for Medicaid
A study published this week in the Health Affairs journal reports that Medicaid patients in states with legal medical marijuana were using fewer prescription drugs than patients in states where MMJ is prohibited. The study looked at quarterly data on all fee-for-service Medicaid prescriptions between 2007 and 2014. The researchers found “statistically and economically meaningful reductions in prescription drug use associated with” medical marijuana laws.
Medicaid will not reimburse patients for medical marijuana treatments, thanks to the Schedule I status of cannabis.
Attorney General Sessions May Pull Funding If States Don’t Comply With Federal Marijuana Law
Ever since it became a possibility that U.S.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Backtracks, Says Marijuana Is a Factor in War on Drugs
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly may have gotten a bit ahead of himself earlier this week, when he told a portion of the American public sitting at home watching “Meet the Press” that marijuana was “not a factor” in the War on Drugs.
Perhaps he didn’t consider his comments would soon spread across the Internet like wildfire and be covered by virtually every major news organization across the nation.
Nevertheless, it appears that Kelly’s running of the mouth may have steamed his boss over at of the Justice Department, who just so happens to be pot-hating U.S.
A Missile Crisis Through the Looking Glass
When President John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev brought the world to the brink of annihilation in 1961 over the precarious position of Cuba on the Cold War-era map of the world, it was the closest the U.S. and Russia had come to making direct war on each other without any Chinese middlemen adding enough distance between, as Commodore Perry called them, the “Saxon and the Cossack.” The crisis in Cuba was an insane piece of dick-measuring and Kennedy’s darkest moment, a staring contest that could have wiped out all life, culture, and history.
Can Legal Marijuana Buy Trump’s Approval?
There is still a great deal of uncertainly surrounding whether U.S.
Survey Shows American Adults Overwhelmingly Support Cannabis Use by Professional Athletes
There’s a major pro-cannabis movement brewing in the National Football League (NFL). With a barrage of research showing the benefits that marijuana presents for pain management and eliminating opioid addiction, the league is finding it difficult to justify their harsh stance against its use by athletes.
Canadian Federal Justice Minister Unapologetic Over Plans to Imprison Certain Pot Offenders
Despite a number of marijuana advocates having expressed concern over Canada planning to send some pot offenders to prison after it makes weed fully legal next year, Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she refuses to apologize for moving forward with policies intended to keep the herb out of the hands of children.
During a recent interview with CTV’s Question Period, Wilson-Raybould said the intention of Canada’s marijuana legalization bill, which dictates a 14-year prison sentence for anyone who knowingly sells pot to kids, was created to put the offense in the same ranks as serious crimes, such as