Alaska could soon become the first place in the United States to allow public consumption of marijuana. The state’s Marijuana Control Board voted in November to let cannabis customers use pot at the shops where they buy it. The vote doesn’t mean weed clubs will be opening anytime soon, but it greatly increases the likelihood […]
A growing group of medical marijuana patients is calling for the resignation of DEA chief Chuck Rosenberg after he called MMJ a “joke.” The Marijuana Majority, a national pro-reform group, launched a Change.org petition seeking Rosenberg’s firing or resignation. As of Nov. 12, the petition had gathered roughly 30,000 signatures. Rosenberg’s comments came earlier in […]
The War on Drugs runs on fear, plain and simple. From the early days of marijuana prohibition, with its Reefer Madness and racial politics, to the military might of the modern DEA, terror has served the nation’s anti-weed movement well. Now a major pro-marijuana group is fighting back against the fear. The Marijuana Policy Project […]
Maureen Dowd is the marijuana gift that keeps on giving. Earlier this year, Dowd penned a breathless account of a panic attack that followed too much weed chocolate. She described her intense paranoia and anxiety in excruciating detail, including the fear she would be busted for being a bad pothead. The column argued that the […]
It is now legal to legalize marijuana, so to speak, on each of America’s 310-or-so Indian reservations. That doesn’t mean weed is legal in any of these places – it isn’t – but it does mean tribes can now choose to legalize if they want to. The federal government promised in December that it would […]
Federal agents have busted what they called a major synthetic marijuana ring in Southern California. A dozen arrests were announced in October by the U.S. attorney’s office for Los Angeles. The suspects are all California residents and allegedly sold synthetic pot to homeless people in the city’s Skid Row neighborhood, near downtown. Synthetic weed, also […]
Almost everyone in the Western world has heard of Alcoholics Anonymous. Even those who know almost nothing about the organization tend to understand that it involves 12 steps of some sort and allows members to remain anonymous. Less well-known is just how poor a job AA does in helping alcoholics and addicts recover. Objective studies […]
After years of practical and political chaos, California’s medical marijuana system is finally subject to statewide regulation. Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, signed three bills in October that will impose a set of licensing and operational rules on cannabis growers, processors, and dispensaries across the state. His signature marks the first time California’s MMJ system […]
Democratic lawmakers in California say they’ve made a deal with Gov. Jerry Brown that would impose order on the state’s notoriously chaotic medical marijuana program. The state Assembly and Senate were expected to pass legislation in September that would create a new set of statewide rules for medicinal cannabis, which is now only loosely regulated […]
With 2015, we have officially reached the halfway mark of the decade. The 2010s have been a heady, tumultuous time for marijuana and drug policy reform, so we thought we’d take a look back at the decade so far. The last five years started off with something of a whimper. On Election Day 2010, California […]
