Italy could be on the verge of legalizing marijuana after 250 legislators, across political demographics signed onto a plan to allow legal possession, cultivation and use. If the plan comes to fruition, Italy would become the largest country in Europe to legalize cannabis. Europe has long been more tolerant of […]

Oregon cannabis consumers are still wondering whether they will be allowed to start purchasing marijuana from dispensaries this October as Senate Bill 460 still sits on Governor Kate Brown’s desk. The bill only legalizes the sale of marijuana flowers, products such as concentrates, extracts and infused edibles will not be available […]

Update: Blog “What Does Donald Trump Think of Marijuana Legalization” includes latest news and polls.  The 2016 presidential race is heating up with progressive Bernie Sanders, the favored candidate of many cannabis law reform advocates, gaining ground on the Hillary Clinton Machine on the Democratic side as Sanders’ progressive positions become […]

The Danish National Institute of Public Health has released new figures showing that high school students are rejecting alcohol and hard drugs in favor of marijuana. Over the past two decades, marijuana use among male high school students has almost doubled and use among female high school students has increased […]

The Senate Appropriations Bill passed a key piece of marijuana legislation today that allows Washington, D.C., to license and regulate cannabis commerce and to allow banks to offer financial services to regulated marijuana businesses. The Financial Services Bill adopted by the U.S. Senate committee deletes previously approved language that prevented […]

As a growing number of U.S. states reform their marijuana laws, new data emerges about the consequences of those reforms. According to a recent study, not only has the sky not fallen in states with legal marijuana, but these states have actually seen their drug problem decrease significantly. The study, […]

The Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana Policy, led by California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, released its “Pathways Report: Policy Options for Regulating Marijuana in California”. The report has been eagerly awaited by the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, or ReformCA, to serve as a guiding document for the language of […]

Now that marijuana is becoming re-legalized, expect to see a flurry of new studies showing us some things we’ve always known about cannabis and some things we never would have suspected, like… CBD helps heal broken bones Israeli scientists broke some rat bones and then injected them with cannabidiol (CBD). […]

This past Oregon legislative session, I was pleased to learn about House Bill 3372, Representative Lew Frederick’s bill designed to release nonviolent marijuana offenders from prison. I set up a meeting to discuss the bill with Rep. Frederick and to see if he was open to amending HB 3372 so that […]

All eyes are on California as the 2016 election looms large. Legalization of marijuana in the Golden State, many observers believe, will be the tipping point for eventual nationwide legalization. If California prohibition falls, the rest of the states will tumble like dominoes. However, if California legalization fails, it could […]

High Times Magazine was excited to receive a reply from the White House to their appeal to reschedule cannabis. Unfortunately, the response from Obama’s drug czar was stale, obstructive, and generally pathetic. High Times August 2015 issue comes with the president on the cover with the admonition, “Legalize Marijuana” and […]

It’s no wonder most Coloradans still support marijuana legalization: the new policy keeps bearing fruit, and particularly so for the state’s schools. Numbers released this week by the Colorado Department of Revenue reveal that tax revenue from legal marijuana sales has been exceeding expectations, totaling $13.7 million in just the […]

The Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform in California has announced the hiring of political consultants Joe Trippi and Jim Gonzalez, as well as the company Progressive Campaigns Inc. to handle the gathering of petition signatures for what will be the ninth initiative filed regarding marijuana laws in California. Trippi is […]

Safe Streets, a nonprofit started with the mission of stopping crime before it occurs, is inadvertently pushing a plan that will only create more crime and endanger the very citizens the nonprofit wants to protect.The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was designed to tackle the mafia, giving the […]

On Tuesday, President Obama made a powerful call for criminal justice reform while speaking at the NAACP’s annual convention in Philadelphia. In what the Washington Post called the “formal launch of one of the president’s last major legislative campaigns,” Obama made the case that such reforms are long overdue and […]