Two days ago, we looked deep into the latest amendments to the Sean Parker-led initiative to legalize marijuana in 2016 in California. Yesterday, we looked at MPP’s initiative already on the ballot to legalize marijuana in Nevada. Today, we look at MPP’s Arizona marijuana legalization initiative, which has banked 100,000 […]

After a landmark case before Mexico’s Supreme Court, four Mexican residents have now been granted permits to cultivate, possess and consume cannabis. More people have already applied for permits and more court cases may be on the horizon. Cannabis law reform advocates hope that the initial court case victory, the […]

We’ve already taken a look at the freshly amended California legalization initiative from Napster billionaire Sean Parker. With those 35,000+ words out of the way, today let’s look at the far shorter 5,000+ words of Marijuana Policy Project’s (MPP) Nevada marijuana legalization initiative, marketed under the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana […]

Marijuana is big news for the media these days and 2015 was no different. After 56% of Oregon voters chose to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana by passing Measure 91 last November, the Beaver State officially became the fourth state to legalize marijuana possession on July 1st. Since Washington State […]

UPDATE: I have now linked to the new, amended version of the Sean Parker Initiative at http://rad-r.us/CA-AUMA2. As we reported, the California Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), the so-called Sean Parker Initiative to legalize marijuana, has now become the de facto front-runner in the state. The organization that had put […]

Iowa’s GOP senior Senator Chuck Grassley is stifling cannabis reform. His inaction as head of the Senate Judiciary Committee is all that is needed to stop the CARERS Act. The historic, bipartisan Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States Act is Senate legislation that would reschedule cannabis off its current […]

The latest report from the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) details the extent of drug rehabilitation in the United States. Rehabs that receive government funding must report to the Treatment Episode Data Set, which includes Admissions (TEDS-A) and discharges (TEDS-D). The TEDS-A report is out for 2003-2013, containing […]

Without a doubt, California has been a leader on cannabis law reform. The Golden State was the pioneer on medical marijuana and medicinal cannabis commerce following the historic passage of Proposition 215 in 1998. There are reportedly more than 1,200 medical marijuana dispensaries conducting more than $1 billion of of business […]

Anyone paying attention to the California cannabis legalization effort knows that competing measures have been vying for support and the resources necessary to pass a successful statewide measure. While California has the proper voting demographics to end marijuana prohibition at the ballot box, various factors, including just the sheer size […]

Bernie Sanders’ supporters, including many in the cannabis community, did all that they could to make the Vermont Senator TIME Person of the Year as he clearly won the online vote, but the magazine’s editors have decided to go a different route. While Sanders will fail to become the first […]

I wrote last week about the impending ban on indoor cannabis consumption in private members-only, all-volunteer, bring-your-own-buds clubs here in Oregon. Combined with Washington State’s legislature recently felonizing any sort of cannabis club, we have the unique irony of having the world’s only shared-border legal marijuana region, yet no place […]

UPDATE: TIME left Bernie Sanders off of the shortlist of potential winners for Person of the Year, despite his winning the online readers’ poll.  TIME Magazine’s editors will ultimately have the final say, but their readers have made it clear that Bernie Sanders should be the 2015 TIME Person of […]

Below is a guest blog submitted by a reader who wanted to join the conversation. If you would like to contribute to Marijuana Politics and join the discussion, click here.  In recent years, marijuana has become legal in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C. It’s obvious that the majority […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration has reiterated Canada’s commitment to legalizing cannabis, reaffirming the government’s intention to end the failed and harmful policy of prohibition. Canada has had a long history of progressive marijuana policies, particularly before the decade long reign of the Conservative Stephen Harper-led government, but the landslide […]

The United States Postal Service sent shockwaves through the publishing world with an announcement warning publications that mailing advertisements for marijuana businesses, even if legal under state law, can result in felony charges. As cannabis law reform has made great strides across the nation, this is just the latest outdated […]