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
The hemp market is flourishing – which means everything from paper to rope is being produced domestically and locally. The economy is thriving because of this homegrown green plant. But I’m not talking about today’s burgeoning hemp marketplace: I was describing the marketplace in Virginia back in late 1600s. “Hemp was the cash crop. […]Read More
Smoking hemp and CBD is now all the rage, and the market is growing. Read More
All summer long GOP leaders have attacked Democrats over marijuana. Democratic leaders are responding this month by going all in on cannabis. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has scheduled a vote for the week of Sept. 21st that would not only decriminalize marijuana – it would also expunge criminal records and create a fund so tax […]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
President Donald Trump is coaching Republican officials to avoid cannabis ahead of November’s elections, which is perplexing marijuana advocates – along with some Republican lawmakers – who recognize the issue is both popular and bipartisan. While in Wisconsin on Monday, the president blamed former-Gov. Scott Walker’s 2018 loss on the myriad of cannabis legalization […]Read More
Legalizing marijuana is not among the recommendations made to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden by a criminal justice task force his campaign created in partnership with former 2020 primary rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Advocates had held out hope that the panel would push the former vice president to join the majority of U.S. voters—and a supermajority […]Read More
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