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
Have you ever wanted to smell like marijuana without the hassle of getting and being high? If so, Dr. Bronner’s has you covered (pun absolutely intended). Soap mavens Dr. Bronner’s, in collaboration with the non-profit Sun+Earth Certified, released a limited-edition cannabis scented soap in time for the holidays. The limited-edition soap was released to support […]Read More
The Department of Justice wants to know how to tell the difference between marijuana and hemp. And it’s enlisting the Department of Commerce to help figure it out. After hemp was federally legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill, laboratories have been increasingly tasked with determining whether cannabis seized by law enforcement contains THC in excess […]Read More
Five years ago, Ohioan Greg McNeil received heartbreaking news. His son, Sam, had overdosed on heroin after he could no longer afford OxyContin. He was dead at 28. Sam’s descent into drug addiction started in an emergency room. In an effort “to defend a young woman’s honor,” he’d gotten into a bad fight at a […]Read More
The Oakland City Council will consider a resolution next week that calls on California state lawmakers to enact policies decriminalizing or legalizing a wide range of psychedelics and allowing local jurisdictions to permit healing ceremonies where people could use entheogenic substances. Activists with Decriminalize Nature (DN) have been working with legislators to expand upon the […]Read More
Mexican lawmakers put the brakes on efforts to legalize marijuana once again. And the nation’s Supreme Court obliged and granted the delay — a delay to the Court’s own mandate — once again, even as Senate-passed reform legislation advanced this week through at least two committees in their government’s lower chamber, called the Chamber of […]Read More
With coronavirus cases and deaths at all-time highs around the country, U.S. health care leaders signed a letter urging the incoming Biden administration to come up with relief strategies to lower incarceration levels in all jails and prisons around the country. “Prisons and jails have become leading coronavirus hotspots, but federal, state and local leaders […]Read More
Just days after voting to federally legalize marijuana, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a separate bill to promote research into the plant, in part by allowing scientists to access cannabis from state-legal dispensaries. The Medical Marijuana Research Act was passed in a voice vote. It was considered under a procedure known as suspension of […]Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Things got awkward for some national Democrats this November when Oregonians overwhelmingly voted against Democratic talking points and made possession of smaller amounts of federally illegal drugs — like heroin, cocaine, LSD, and meth, etc. — more like a traffic violation (a mere $100 fine) than like a murder. What was lost […]Read More
A federal health agency is conducting a review of studies to learn if marijuana and kratom — a plant native to Southeast Asia used in herbal medicines — could potentially treat chronic pain with fewer side effects than opioids. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is asking the public to help identify research […]Read More
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