WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of the Sackler family, one of the nation’s wealthiest families faced a grilling on a Capitol Hill today over their role in helping create and foment the nation’s raging opioid epidemic that has now claimed close to 450,000 lives. Under threat of a subpoena, former board member Dr. Kathe Sackler, along […]Read More
Cannabidiol (CBD), the non-psychoactive cannabinoid in cannabis, is taking the health and wellness world by storm—and for good reason. Evidence shows that CBD may have therapeutic potential when it comes to treating anxiety, insomnia, pain, and more. Still, fresh statistics show that the CBD industry has a way to go when it comes to CBD […]Read More
Myths, distortions, and lies have been flying across Washington this week. But unlike a typical week in Trump’s Washington, this time they’re emanating from the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue: The U.S. Capitol. That’s because the House of Representatives has been debating whether to federally decriminalize marijuana — the first congressional floor debate ever over […]Read More
Even some of marijuana’s biggest supporters in Washington are nervous ahead of this week’s historic vote to decriminalize cannabis nationwide. They know the support is there in the public, but they don’t know if the will power is there in Congress. “We know that it’s still kind of iffy,” Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.) told […]Read More
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rejected a petition to exempt the Iowa medical marijuana program from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) this month, according to Marijuana Moment. But the activist who filed the request plans to push again for the exemption, and the state is considering separately filing a petition to the DEA. The ask […]Read More
On Election Day, there was one clear winner in America: drug reform. But drug reform was also a clear loser of this insane 2020 election cycle. Sure, voters in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota legalized recreational cannabis, even as South Dakota, additionally, and Mississippi legalized medical marijuana. But despite these triumphs for the […]Read More
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