If you’ve never been busted for cannabis possession, consider yourself lucky. Lots of people have, especially people of color. One of the harshest, lingering effects of America’s war on ‘drugs’ is the huge number who have been arrested and imprisoned for things now legal in many states today, especially marijuana. Today someone in 11 states […]Read More
It’s hard to get many Americans to vote, but marijuana has proven to be a great motivator. That’s why cannabis advocates are using National Voter Registration Day – which is this Tuesday, September 22 – to help try and rally support from the nation’s unofficial green party. “Cannabis policy can be a gateway issue for […]Read More
Some of the nation’s largest – and wealthiest – news outlets did it again: They helped create a ‘crisis’ that didn’t truly exist. In fact, last year many publications sensationalized and spread misinformation on vaping to all corners of the nation, which only seems to have exacerbated the situation. In reality, experts found the vaping […]Read More
Next week the U.S. House of Representatives is set to hold a historic debate and vote on marijuana legislation. Lawmakers are taking up The MORE Act, which would remove cannabis from the list of controlled substances while also incentivizing states to expunge past criminal records for marijuana charges and removing barriers for minorities to get […]Read More
The legalization of marijuana in one form or another in more than half of the nation has left doctors scrambling to help their patients understand its medicinal benefits, along with its potential harms. But there’s a problem: There’s just not a ton of solid research on cannabis, at least in America. The blockade on research […]Read More
Smoking hemp and CBD is now all the rage, and the market is growing. Read More
Can THC alleviate the respiratory symptoms associated with coronavirus? Not yet – and possibly never – but a group of researchers in South Carolina see promise after three studies showed THC helped mice fight respiratory illnesses. Now they want to see if they get similar positive results in humans. The THC helped the mice combat […]Read More
As the pandemic stretches into yet another month, President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans continue to refuse to even entertain sending more direct federal assistance to cash-strapped states. That’s why more governors are looking to marijuana as a way to shore up their state budgets and add more revenue. Just this week, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom […]Read More
Hemp, or CBD products, are all the rage in America, but it may soon be dubbed a narcotic in Europe. Photo by Leland Rucker You didn’t read that headline wrong. No click-bait here. The European Commission – the executive branch of the European Union – is considering whether cannabidiol, or CBD, much of which is […]Read More
Former convicts in Colorado are now offered the opportunity to get their past criminal records wiped from the books, which is a small recognition from elected officials that some of the first states in the nation to legalize recreational cannabis now have some revisions to make. Read More
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