Maine’s Office of Cannabis Policy (OCP) Director John Hudak told state legislators he is aware that his office has been issuing marijuana grow licenses to persons associated with Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCO). On Wednesday, Hudak told members of the state legislature’s Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee that his agency cannot deny the medical licensing requests.
Vice President Kamala Harris indicated to MSNBC’s Al Sharpton that black men are “misogynist” if they do not support her candidacy.
The government of Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is making good on its promise to reclassify cannabis as an illegal narcotic.
New York officials are offering the state’s first 150 licenses for the legal sale of marijuana, a drug that is addicting Americans, to individuals previously convicted of cannabis offenses.
Fearing low turnout among demoralized Democrats in New York, Hollywood stars are making a last-ditch effort by appealing to potheads to support unelected incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), pushing her pro-marijuana platform as a major selling point. Like getting stoned on a regular basis? Vote for Hochul.
While experts are warning that the country could run out of gas as early as February, German political parties are now bickering about how liberal new laws legalising cannabis should be.
Pennsylvania’s Democratic U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman wants to legalize cannabis nationally and is urging President Joe Biden to deschedule the drug, removing it from the list of federally controlled substances.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced the formation of a commission to study the decriminalisation of marijuana in the British capital
Gov. Ned Lamont (D-CT) signed a bill that legalizes possession of marijuana in the state and anticipates retail sales of the drug in 2022.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told Politico this week the Senate will push marijuana reform legislation, even without President Biden’s support.
The Biden administration issued new marijuana guidelines on Friday to quickly “fill key White House positions.” Recreational marijuana use has been an unexpected hurdle for the White House’s personnel department.
At his February 1 rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Bernie Sanders promised an executive order to legalize weed on his first day in office.
A man arrested for alleged drug possession reportedly lit a joint in front of a judge Monday in Wilson County, Tennessee.
Former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke on Monday voiced his support for federal marijuana legalization ahead of the Texas Democrat’s likely campaign for the presidency in 2020.
Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) published an op-ed Tuesday urging federal lawmakers to legalize marijuana nationwide on the same day the first recreational marijuana shops in Massachusetts opened their doors to the public.
California Treasurer John Chiang wants to form a state-owned bank to service the coming legal marijuana boom that he expects to grow bigger and faster than the “Dot-Com boom.”
David Stern, former commissioner of the NBA, says that rules in sports governing marijuana use are “antiquated,” and that it’s time for the sports world to embrace weed.
Former Mexican President and outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter Vicente Fox has publicly called for negotiations with the drug cartels that have brought terror to his country.
University of Michigan senior Hunter Swogger is at it again — this time taking to a local marijuana festival dressed as a Bernie Sanders supporter.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans support legalizing marijuana, a new poll has found.
On November 4, Mexico’s Supreme Court made a landmark—and highly controversial—decision, declaring that individuals should have the right to grow and distribute marijuana for their personal use. The ruling applies only to a single cannabis club that filed the suit, but may have initiated a domino effect that will pave the way for eventual marijuana legalization.
Full marijuana legalization in California inched one small step closer to reality on Monday when advocates were cleared to collect signatures to qualify a measure for the 2016 ballot.
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom will hold an open discussion on marijuana legalization Friday in one of the counties that legalization legislation would likely affect the most: Humboldt County.
Morgan Freeman loves marijuana, and he doesn’t care who knows it.
