One Colorado Lawmaker Wants to Protect your Right to Consume Cannabis When Not at Work By Claire Kurowsky In 2012, it was a heart-breaking story. Post-legalization, it should sound too preposterous to believe. It should, but the battle still lingers on for those like Brandon…
By Claire Kurowsky Hemp Banking No Longer “Suspicious” On Dec. 3, 2019, the Federal Reserve released a statement including guidance for how banks should work with the hemp industry. Banks are no longer required to file “suspicious activity reports” on companies running a hemp business.…
By Claire Kurowsky Senator Bernie Sanders Released a plan to legalize recreational marijuana and expunge past convictions. On Oct. 24, the Independent Senator from Vermont proposed his plan, if elected, to legalize marijuana nationwide, and expunge criminal convictions related cannabis convictions. Sanders also called for…
Did Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer Just Save Legal Weed from Federal Prosecution? By Luke Stevens By a decisive vote of 267 to 165, the U.S. House of Representatives puff, puff, passed a far-reaching amendment on Thursday, June 21 to prevent the Department of Justice (DOJ)…
Colorado Removed a Years-Long Ban on Public Companies Owning Cannabis Companies By Luke Stevens It takes a Coloradian (or at least someone living in the state) to own a cannabis company here. But now the state — although more likely Big Business — is looking…
Illinois is set to become the 11th U.S. state to legalize cannabis for adult recreational use — on Friday June 7, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is expected to sign the first ever legalization through an act of lawmakers. All previous legalization measures happened via a voter-approved…
Forget the previous week’s Black Friday — this was Green Friday (and way less insipid) for Maryland residents. It was the day legal medical marijuana sales went into effect. It’s been more than four years since voters passed MMJ to now, when 10 fully-licensed dispensaries…
Hurricane Irma has caused widespread damage to our neighbors in the Caribbean and our friends in Florida. More than 6 million people were ordered to evacuate their homes and many of them are returning to face power outages, flooding and destruction. Preliminary estimates for Irma…
Sometimes it isn’t difficult to confuse a stoner. You could ask him to alphabetize his M&M’s, tell him to sit in the corner of the Oval Office, or, in this case, call a cannabis product an idiom for being drunk. Okay, that may not work…
Those arguing against cannabis legalization were dealt another crushing blow this week — this time by the government’s own data. New figures from a federal survey confirm marijuana use among 12 to 17-year-olds is at its lowest level in more than two decades — after…