A new era in the cultivation of industrial hemp begins today as the US Department of Agriculture’s “final rule” on hemp goes into effect. The new rules are an extension of the 2018 Farm Bill which legalized hemp for the first time in 80 years and shifted regulation of the crop from the domain of […]Read More
PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan. — A few weeks before the state of New York became the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak last year, 54-year-old and first-generation Chinese immigrant Catherine Guo got an unexpected call saying her younger sister had died. But the cause of death, unlike for so many others around that time, wasn’t the virus. […]Read More
WASHINGTON, DC — There’s bipartisan agreement on at least one thing in Washington: No one knows where President Joe Biden stands on federal marijuana policy, let alone where he’s at on broader drug policy. The silence from Biden’s cabinet secretaries, advisors and nominees isn’t because the issue hasn’t come up. “I honestly don’t know what […]Read More
At John Dewey Academy (JDA) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, teenagers with a range of mental health issues were deprived medication and proper treatment, and administered “attack therapy,” under the unchecked tutelage of Thomas Bratter, who himself had dubious mental health training and was found guilty of raping at least two of his own students […]Read More
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts surely stepped in it this week when he told reporters, “If you legalize marijuana, you’re gonna kill your kids.” Sadly, the Republican isn’t alone in his obvious ignorance surrounding marijuana. Even now-President Joe Biden helped spread myths around the popular plant while on the campaign trail. Here’s a quick list of […]Read More
The next front in the ‘war on drugs’ doesn’t have to do with legalization of one substance or another. Rather, it’s a precision operation being waged in state legislatures from coast to coast by the nation’s premier anti-marijuana group, Smart Approaches to Marijuana (or SAM), along with its surprising and growing list of Democratic legislative […]Read More











