The good folks at the Greener Side have been through it all with the Oregon cannabis industry and have found a way to thrive and do good work. Starting operations at a time when being reimbursed for medical cannabis was a “gray area,” they know what it is like to […]

California’s cannabis legalization measure garners most of the headlines and Nevada has already qualified for the ballot, but it looks like the conservative-but-with-a-libertarian-streak state of Arizona may have marijuana on the ballot this November as well. Massachusetts and Maine look like good bets to put marijuana legalization measures before voters […]

Prohibitionists, such as Project SAM’s Kevin Sabet, are fond of painting the burgeoning cannabis industry as “Big Marijuana,” an uncaring industry that only cares about making a buck. Sabet and others like to make the false comparison to Big Tobacco, accusing the marijuana business entrepreneurs of wanting to get younger […]

  Oregon marijuana laws are continually changing and more changes are on the horizon. Since the passage of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act in 1998, Oregon’s laws have changed several times and the changes are only coming more rapidly now that cannabis commerce has been legalized. The Oregon Marijuana Business […]

Merle Haggard had a legendary career and life. Known as a pioneer of  the “outlaw country” movement, Haggard was inducted into the Country Hall of Fame in 1994. A friend of cannabis community icon Willie Nelson, Haggard was once anti-marijuana, but he evolved and became a cannabis connoisseur. Today, the […]

Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley just held a wildly bogus marijuana hearing challenging the plant’s recent legalization in several states. The result was pure prohibitionist propaganda, harken back to the “Just Say No” and “Zero Tolerance” of hysterical 1980s American drug policy. Chuck Grassley is (gag) Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is the single person, […]

UPDATE: Defying the polls, Bernie Sanders won Wisconsin by double digits over Hillary Clinton. The latest Emerson College poll now has Bernie Sanders defeating Hillary Clinton by 8 points in Wisconsin after its previous poll, released just two weeks ago, had Clinton leading by 6 points. This remarkable 14 point […]

Following through with a protest that has split the cannabis law reform movement, activists marched in Washington, D.C., and, in an act of civil disobedience, smoked marijuana in front of the White House. The smoke-out was supposed to start at 4:20pm Eastern Time, but according to Twitter, protesters may have […]

Denver’s nickname has never felt more appropriate. Known affectionately as the Mile High City due to the fact it sits about a mile above sea level, the last few years have seen its Mile High status elevated and conflated as a booming recreational marijuana industry has developed in the city […]

I assumed that it was a cruel April Fool’s Day joke, but Andrew Sullivan assured his readers that he wasn’t pulling our chain in an email to us. Still, it was nice to get confirmation that Sullivan will be writing again, albeit, not blogging daily for us, but providing long-form […]

As Colorado leads the way in the national cannabis legalization effort, the ghosts of national alcohol prohibition, now nearly a century-old, still haunt it. Two proposed ballot initiatives–one announced this week and another that has been picking up steam for months–have stirred these ghosts, but only one aims to exorcise […]

Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz could be dumped in the August 30 primary! Schultz’s failings as a Democratic congressperson are huge. Supposedly a progressive, she instead opposes medical marijuana and joins corporate Republicans to support the predatory payday loan industry. Her neo-con, prohibitionist, and money grubbing politics belie her “progressive” […]

The Oregon chapter of the prohibitionist group Smart Approaches to Marijuana (SAM) claimed that “their [sic] is no such thing as ‘Medical’ Marijuana” in a March 25th Facebook post, insulting all of the patients that legitimately use marijuana as medicine. There are a few false statements in the Facebook posts, […]

Filets-o-Fish, Big Macs, Wendy’s, Oreos, and plenty of soda. This is the actual, no-kidding diet of the Republican presidential front-runner. Yes, Donald Trump, the man who, per his family physician, would “unequivocally…be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency,” eats like a teenage stoner. The proof? A sparkling Washington […]

The racist Drug War, especially the war waged upon the cannabis community, is clearly losing support from the American people. The success of the cannabis law reform movement is evident at the ballot box, public polls and the 2016 presidential election, especially on the Democratic side. On the Republican, side […]