Legalization news for industry professionals. The cannabis legalization movement has gone mainstream: scroll down to find out which markets are currently working to legalize cannabis for medical and/or recreational use.
Wed / Apr 6th
U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) convened a hearing yesterday to investigate whether or not the Justice Department has dropped the… Read More
Tue / Apr 5th
Sen. Bernie Sanders has been considered the cannabis industry’s favored presidential candidate since he introduced legislation last November to completely remove cannabis… Read More
Thu / Mar 31st
Marijuana prohibitionists will testify in front of a Congressional panel next week, claiming that the Obama administration has mishandled recreational… Read More
Thu / Mar 31st PODCAST
Joy Beckerman is the founder of Hemp Ace, in addition to being a nationally-recognized industrial hemp activist and expert. As… Read More
Wed / Mar 23rd
A 1994 quote from a former Nixon aide makes it crystal clear that the administration’s reason for criminalizing drug use… Read More
Thu / Mar 17th
Gov. Gina Raimondo is open to the idea of putting the legalization question to Rhode Island voters, she told the Providence Journal on… Read More
Thu / Mar 17th
Cannabis and its non-psychoactive cousin scored victories in the Pennsylvania legislature yesterday as the House and Senate passed medical marijuana… Read More
Wed / Mar 16th
Yet another poll is suggesting what most people already know: U.S. citizens are ready to end the prohibition of marijuana.… Read More
Wed / Mar 9th PODCAST
Mark Hubbard is co-founder of Integrity Labs, a licensed cannabis analysis & testing laboratory in Washington. He recently joined our… Read More
Wed / Mar 9th
New financial backing appears to be brewing a fight between cannabis legalization campaigns in California. Steve Kubby, a cannabis activist… Read More
Tue / Mar 8th
Activists from the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol (CRMLA) clashed with legislators over the implications of cannabis legalization in… Read More
Mon / Mar 7th
The governor of Virginia has signed into law a bill this week that will legalize the industrial production of hemp… Read More
Thu / Feb 25th
An Arizona cannabis legalization petition expected to be on the November ballot has been the subject of some scrutiny after… Read More
Mon / Feb 22nd
The NORML Board of Directors voted on Saturday to endorse the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), an initiative to legalize… Read More
Tue / Feb 16th
Sean Parker, billionaire philanthropist and former President of Facebook, has doubled his donation to the California Adult Use of Marijuana… Read More
Tue / Jan 26th
State lawmakers, local jurisdictions and medical cannabis producers in California are wrestling with new legislation that regulates how medical marijuana… Read More
Fri / Jan 8th
Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin announced in his State of the State address Thursday that he will move to legalize cannabis… Read More
Thu / Jan 7th
A non-descript building in Albany, New York’s warehouse district houses the state capital’s first, and currently only, medical cannabis dispensary.… Read More
Thu / Jan 7th
The Mayor of Mexico City has come out in support of marijuana legalization, stating that the issue is one both… Read More
Mon / Jan 4th
The California Department of Finance has released a report finding that the legalization of cannabis there could bring in a… Read More
Thu / Dec 31st
Patient demand for medical marijuana in Massachusetts has increased almost twelve-fold during the program’s first year. Statistics from the Department… Read More
Thu / Dec 31st
Megan and Marcus Mooers — owners/operators of The Higher Calling, a bring-your-own-cannabis social club located in Fairbanks, Alaska — have… Read More
Thu / Dec 31st
The economics of cannabis are evolving in North America. As the United States marches forward on the legalization path, Mexican… Read More
Tue / Dec 29th PODCAST
As the tide of legalization rolls forward and retail markets are established and regulated by state governments, what will become of… Read More
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