A coalition of more than 100 civil rights groups—including ACLU, NAACP, National Education Association and National Organization for Women—released a criminal justice reform platform for the 2020 elections on Thursday that calls for the legalization of marijuana and supports the “dismantling” of the criminalization of other drugs. As part... Read more
Hundreds of thousands of past marijuana convictions could be cleared from people’s records in California thanks to new technology developed by the nonprofit technology organization Code for America. The group has already helped five major counties in the state expedite the expungement process by assisting in the identification of... Read more
Former GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said on Thursday that partisanship in Congress makes it unlikely that marijuana will be federally legalized, even as he acknowledged that more members of his party support a states’ rights approach to the issue. During an appearance on CNBC, Cantor was... Read more
Former GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said on Thursday that partisanship in Congress makes it unlikely that marijuana will be federally legalized, even as he acknowledged that more members of his party support a states’ rights approach to the issue. During an appearance on CNBC, Cantor was... Read more
South Africa’s history of State-sponsored segregation has taught cannabis activists there to avoid the pitfalls of botanical segregation and embrace the eons-old history of use by indigenous people. While countries around the globe struggle to re-regulate, commodify and capitalize on the plant’s resurgent legitimacy, South Africa could be poised... Read more
Amid growing concerns about e-cigarette devices, a second death in America has been linked to vaping. The death occurred in Oregon in July, the apparent result of a severe lung disease that health officials believe was caused by the use of a vaping device that contained marijuana. The victim’s... Read more
Former GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said on Thursday that partisanship in Congress makes it unlikely that marijuana will be federally legalized, even as he acknowledged that more members of his party support a states’ rights approach to the issue. During an appearance on CNBC, Cantor was... Read more
Former GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said on Thursday that partisanship in Congress makes it unlikely that marijuana will be federally legalized, even as he acknowledged that more members of his party support a states’ rights approach to the issue. During an appearance on CNBC, Cantor was... Read more
A federal judge has ruled that an Oregon vineyard has established the legal authority to sue a neighboring cannabis growing operation. In the ruling, U.S. Senior District Judge Anna Brown found that Momzati Vineyard’s allegation that the proximity of the marijuana cultivation business had caused a “concrete financial loss”... Read more
Mississippi voters may have the opportunity to decide next year whether or not patients in the state can seek medical cannabis. The advocacy group Mississippians for Compassionate Care on Wednesday submitted a petition to the secretary of state’s office to place an initiative on the 2020 ballot to legalize... Read more