Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) unveiled a sweeping criminal justice reform plan Sunday aimed to combat “institutional racism” in the country. The plan includes diversifying police forces, creating a civilian corps of unarmed first responders, ending cash bail, and cutting the U.S. prison population in half.
According to recent data, roughly 40 percent of the country makes around $40,000 a year. According to Mike Tyson, he and his friends smoke the annual salary of those people in weed, every month.
British prime minister Boris Johnson has hired a policy adviser from the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis who wants to legalise the drug for recreational use.
CLAIM: Kamala Harris “put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”
VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. It was closer to 2,000.
Gabbard slammed Harris for her record as a California attorney general and her hypocrisy over marijuana in her strongest moments.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed a bill Monday to further decriminalize marijuana use and expunge the records of individuals convicted on cannabis-related charges.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) claimed she misheard Thursday night’s debate question in which she signaled support for the elimination of private insurance, but this is not the first time she has swiftly reversed positions on that topic and a range of other issues.
The University of Washington is testing the impact of marijuana on unborn fetuses, according to a press release by the team of researchers working on the project. The study will include women who smoke marijuana while pregnant.
A California judge overturned the conviction of five men who had marijuana in their prison cells after the state legalized recreational pot.
According to estimates, the marijuana industry could out-earn the National Football League as early as next year.
Twenty-year-old Fabricio Tueros Jimenez was arrested on Monday at a traffic stop with 250 grams of marijuana, 13 Xanax pills, and cocaine on his nose.
The City of Oakland’s supervisors voted on Tuesday to decriminalize “magic mushrooms” and other natural psychedelic drugs, becoming the second city in the U.S. to do so after Denver voters approved a similar ballot measure last month.
Will NFL owners allow players to smoke pot in exchange for an 18-game season?
Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Chris Long is once again speaking out in favor of legalizing and destigmatizing marijuana.
The new policy proposals published on his website include a plan for amnesty for illegal immigrants, the legalization of marijuana nationwide, and the unfettered right to abortion.
Contrary to the image of potheads as peaceful stoners, “cannabis-dependent psychotic patients were four times as likely to be violent,” Alex Berenson writes.
Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Saturday called for legalization of marijuana at the federal level for the purpose of restoring justice.
Thursday on CNN, 2020 Democrat presidential candidate and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper discussed marijuana, saying its legalization should be left up to each state to decide on. Hickenlooper compared it to prohibition and noted that some counties around the country
Federal authorities in the Mexican border city of Matamoros raided a clandestine nursery where they found more than 790 marijuana plants.
Normally, when a player has four different violations of the NFL drug policy, that player is no longer employed. At the very least, even if that player remains employed, he’s done with the team as soon as his contract is over.
Video of Dallas Cowboys tight end Rico Gathers being arrested for smoking pot in Frisco, Texas, has been released.
On Friday, former Cowboys defensive lineman David Irving announced on Instagram that he has decided not to return to pro football, while smoking weed.
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.
Kamala Harris’s father is chastising his daughter and Democrat presidential hopeful for advancing stereotypes about pot-smoking Jamaicans.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing lower-than-expected tax revenues, thanks to unexpectedly low sales tax revenues from legal marijuana, and the first implementation of the new federal cap on state on local tax (SALT) deductions.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is shifting the California National Guard from border enforcement to cracking down on the illegal marijuana industry — even though he was an advocate for the legalization of the drug.
If Kamala Harris wasn’t smoking weed listening to music that hadn’t existed yet in college, than she was smoking weed as a California District Attorney.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) claimed Monday that she smoked marijuana while listening to rap legends during her college years, yet it appears their albums were released only after the presidential candidate completed graduate school.
Monday on iHeartRadio’s “The Breakfast Club,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, voiced her support for legalizing marijuana. However, it was with some caveats. “Let me make this statement very clear: I believe we
A mother has been arrested after at least 12 students at a Cleveland elementary school got sent to the hospital because they unknowingly came into contact with marijuana-infused gummy candies, police said.
Jan. 25 (UPI) — Cannabis company Caliva closed its first round of funding at $75 million, with Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana among its investors.
Tesla investors reportedly believe that the company’s CEO Elon Musk may have made yet another joke about marijuana, this time when selling a company debt security.
California marijuana dispensaries reported record-high holiday sales this Christmas as pot products became popular stocking stuffers this holiday season.
This is the time of year when people are known to carry items in bags, hoping to distribute them and bring joy to the masses. However, a former NFL player has put his own spin on the Christmas spirit and its landed him in extremely hot water.
A convict is suing the state of South Carolina because he is barred from smoking pot in jail, a report says.
Chicago’s outgoing Democrat mayor, Rahm Emanuel, says the way to defuse the Windy City’s pension bomb is to legalize and tax marijuana and build a city-owned casino.
China’s Global Times state propaganda newspaper published an article Wednesday blaming America’s lack of “values” for its opioid crisis and in particular the use of fentanyl, a highly deadly opioid primarily manufactured in China.
Michigan is set to become the latest state to legalize marijuana for recreational use Thursday and the first state in the Midwest to do so after voters gave the idea their blessing on November 6.
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, who has adopted as his signature policy a violent nationwide crackdown on drug use, claimed in remarks on Monday that he uses marijuana “to stay awake.”
Stocks in companies dealing in cannabis- and marijuana-related products have risen since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions left the Trump administration, the Los Angeles Times reports.
