Leaders of military veterans organizations sent a clear message to congressional lawmakers this week: Federal marijuana and psychedelics laws are outdated and should be reformed to give service members alternative treatment options for conditions like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) . During joint hearings before House and Senate Veterans Affairs Committees, three veterans service organizations (VSOs) […]Read More
Admitting to past marijuana use should not automatically disqualify people from being employed in the federal government, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) said in a memo distributed to agencies on Thursday. Separately, the Biden administration is instituting a new policy of granting waivers to some White House staff who’ve used cannabis. While the extent […]Read More
Legalizing marijuana for adult use is associated with an increase in workforce productivity and decrease in workplace injuries, according to a new study partly funded by the federal government. In a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, researchers looked at the impact of recreational cannabis legalization on workers’ compensation claims among […]Read More
The marijuana industry added more than 77,000 jobs over the past year — a 32 percent increase that makes the sector the fastest in job creation compared to any other American industry, according to a new report from the cannabis company Leafly. In total, there are now approximately 321,000 full-time jobs in the marijuana sector […]Read More
The National Football League and NFL Players Association are launching an effort to learn about the potential of marijuana and components like cannabidiol (CBD) as alternative treatment options for pain and in finding out more about how cannabis use affects athletic performance. A request for information published this week states that the league’s goal is […]Read More
A Texas lawmaker introduced a bill this week that would require the state to study the therapeutic potential of psilocybin, MDMA and ketamine in the treatment of certain mental health conditions. The legislation from Rep. Alex Dominguez (D) would mandate that the Department of State Health Services conduct the study in collaboration with the Texas […]Read More
A Republican lawmaker in Iowa is trying again to reform the state’s psychedelics laws by introducing a bill this week that would remove psilocybin from the list of controlled substances. Rep. Jeff Shipley first filed a bill to get the policy change enacted in 2019, and pursued the idea again last year as an amendment […]Read More
The Idaho Senate approved a resolution to amend the state Constitution to prevent marijuana or other drugs from being legalized. If the House follows suit, the action could create serious complications for activists seeking to put cannabis reform measures on Idaho’s 2022 ballot. The Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee approved the resolution along party lines last week, and […]Read More
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Following a City Council vote this week, Cambridge has become the latest American city to decriminalize a wide range of psychedelics. And lawmakers used the opportunity to push for broader reforms that go beyond the entheogen-focused measures approved in other municipalities across the country and called on police to stop arresting people […]Read More
The psychedelics reform movement has seen a wave of successes at the state and local level over the past couple years, but a newly formed group says now is the time for activists to head for Congress. The Plant Medicine Coalition (PMC) — founded by the head of the Washington, D.C. campaign that got psychedelics decriminalization […]Read More
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