When we consider marijuana legalization, let’s face it: Western states started the movement and continue to lead the way. Voters in both Colorado and Washington state passed recreational use in November of 2012, followed by Oregon, Nevada, California and Alaska, all which now have state-run marijuana programs for adults. Arizona voters legalized adult use in […]Read More
This is the third in a four-part series on all regions of America. The First and Second. Long resistant to change, voters in the Midwest, much like those in the South, are only slowly moving reluctant lawmakers toward marijuana reform. Illinois and Michigan may have legalized recreational marijuana, but Oklahoma is turning heads. The medical […]Read More
While the Northeast is catching up to the West’s marijuana legalization boom, the South is one geographic area where the national legalization tracker shows little movement when it comes to recreational marijuana. Even medicinal cannabis remains completely illegal in South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. In other southern locales — even those where voters demanded legalization […]Read More
This is the first in a four-part series looking at marijuana legalization attempts in the United States in 2021. There will be no citizen initiatives, which means that change will only happen through state legislatures and governors’ offices. With coronavirus still taking huge bites out of local and state budgets, elected officials from coast to […]Read More
I had a dog once that played music. Really. Any time my friend Gil and I got out our guitars, Ricky grabbed a squeaky toy, planted himself between us and started making noise. He had no sense of time or rhythm — it was pure, skronking jazz — but this Belgian Tervuren was into the […]Read More
Business groups, marijuana advocates and at least two federal lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to make haste in expunging the records of federal prisoners with non-violent marijuana convictions, just as he promised during his presidential campaign. It’s not a novel notion. Rather, it’s something Biden — and his surrogates — have been talking […]Read More