Former NFL star Marvin Washington and others yesterday filed a lawsuit in NY against the US Government and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The suit is seeking to declare the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), which makes cannabis illegal under federal law, unconstitutional as to its classification...
An insightful article a few weeks ago on MassRoots (www.massroots.com) urges readers to "rebrand" cannabis and call it by its proper scientific name: cannabis. The piece goes through the apparently racist history of those who adopted the term "marijuana" as they pushed for criminalization of cannabis...
[Updated July 4, 2017 to reflect the addition of Greece which legalized medical cannabis.] A fascinating article in Wikipedia scours the globe to see which countries have taken action to legalize or decriminalize the use of cannabis. While we focus heavily on the dramatic trend here in the...
Florida Gov. Rick Scott this past Friday signed legislation to implement the legalization of medical marijuana there. Over 70% of Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment last fall setting up the new regime. Scott, a Republican, opposed the constitutional amendment, but signed the bill without...
The New York Hedge Found Roundtable, made up of professional investors who generally focus on "alternative investments," the other day said its members believe investing in cannabis companies is "appealing." The normal alternative investments one thinks of, derivative securities, hedge and private equity funds and...
The President signed a budget bill last Friday that will keep the government funded through the end of September. After signing the bill, the President issued a statement which, among other things, declared some provisions in the bill unconstitutional, and seemed to suggest that he will...
It's looking good. The Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment to the last several years of federal budget bills has prevented the federal government from using its money to prevent the implementation of state medical cannabis laws since 2014. However, the amendment must be renewed each year with the...
Earlier this week WV Governor Jim Justice (great name) signed into law a bill passed by the state legislature to permit the production and sale of medical marijuana in the state. This makes West Virginia the 29th US state to legalize medical marijuana. It is...
Today, in a both exciting and sobering press release, Canada announced a plan to fully "legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access" to cannabis in the Great White North. The release starts bluntly: "The current approach to cannabis does not work." The government of Prime Minister Justin...
In a major development for New York, its Department of Health officially approved a regulation, first proposed in December, to allow people with "any severe debilitating pain that the practitioner determines degrades health and functional capability" that has lasted or is expected to last at...