The country’s leading trucking trade group is warning that rescheduling marijuana could lead to “significant negative consequences” for both the industry and other motorists on the road. But many individual truck drivers disagree, with some having filed comments with federal officials in support of the rescheduling move. The American... Read more

“Let’s show the Biden administration and federal leaders that Americans demand more than just rescheduling.” By Cat Packer, Drug Policy Alliance on behalf of United for Marijuana Decriminalization Marijuana should have never been criminalized back in the 1970s. Even President Richard Nixon’s own commission recommended decriminalizing marijuana use. But... Read more

Pennsylvania lawmakers are signaling that a bill to legalize marijuana could advance imminently—with few remaining differences between House and Senate proposals, an added sense of urgency as more neighboring state markets come online and bipartisan agreement about the need to avoid a state-run regulatory model. At a press conference... Read more

The Republican governor of Louisiana has signed bills to decriminalize marijuana paraphernalia and enact restrictions on the hemp market. On the same day that Gov. Jeff Landry (R) vetoed a measure that would have allowed him and future governors to issue pardons for people with past cannabis convictions, he... Read more

A United Nations expert on the right to health is urging member nations to end the war on drugs and instead enact harm-reduction policies such as decriminalization, supervised consumption sites, drug checking and widespread availability of overdose reversal drugs like naloxone—while also moving toward “alternative regulatory approaches” for currently... Read more