Recreational Marijuana

President Joe Biden’s administration will reportedly loosen laws regulating cannabis (marijuana), which some advocates say amounts to only a symbolic gesture that will ultimately change nothing.

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.

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.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has signalled that he would push to decriminalise marijuana if re-elected in the upcoming election, in his latest ‘green’ agenda campaign promise. Though the Mayor of London does not have the power to introduce legislation, Mr

New York state lawmakers and officials finalized a deal Thursday to legalize recreational marijuana in the state.

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. 

Democrat New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation Monday to set up a recreational marijuana marketplace, decriminalize pot, and loosen laws barring underage possession of cannabis and alcohol.

National legalization of marijuana will provide politicians with another means of enrichment through corruption, warned Peter Schweizer.

A GAI’s “Cannabis Croynism” investigation detailed potential corruption within the $21 billion marijuana industry, explained Eric Eggers.

A Chicago pot dispensary licensed to sell recreational marijuana was robbed Monday morning in the city’s Logan Square neighborhood, police said.

Illinois Lieutenant Gov. Juliana Stratton was one of the first to buy recreational marijuana after it became legal across the state Wednesday. 

Hundreds of people in Michigan lined up to be the first to buy recreational marijuana after it officially became legal Sunday.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is proposing a $10 billion federal program to help former convicts work in the marijuana industry as part of his comprehensive plan to legalize marijuana nationwide, which he released Thursday at approximately 4:20 p.m. Eastern.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Thursday unveiled his proposal to legalize marijuana nationwide at precisely 4:20 p.m. EST — an homage to what has been dubbed “Weed Day.”

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.

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Saturday called for legalization of marijuana at the federal level for the purpose of restoring justice.

The California Police Chiefs Association and its allies are circulating a petition to stop the state’s Bureau of Cannabis Control from allowing unlimited pot delivery services across the state.

California’s legal marijuana industry is about to see big business move in to buy up small players in expectation of continued high growth in the markets for medical and recreation pot.

California marijuana farmers that obtained legal cultivation licenses under Proposition 64 are already complaining to the Humboldt County Supervisors that taxes could bankrupt them.

California marijuana retailers will be toting huge amounts of cash to the Franchise Tax Board and the IRS, as pot still is too illegal for banks to inhale.

California’s new regulations and taxes for recreational marijuana, legal as of January 1, are a threat to the Emerald Triangle cultivators and dealers who have dominated marijuana for almost five decades.

The 88 California licensed recreational marijuana stores began the New Year with price-cutting and big sales volumes.

California New Year’s Day partiers can only buy legal recreational marijuana at 44 locations across the state, as cities like Los Angeles are suffering problems setting up taxes and dealing with union infighting.

California’s hospitality industry is cranking up to incorporate the launch of recreational marijuana with premium offerings of cannabis edibles, aphrodisiacs, and a revived drug culture party sound.

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.”

California is confident that draft regulations will be ready by the end of November to start the billion-dollar recreational marijuana tax bonanza on January 1.

Los Angeles is scrambling to make sure the City of Angeles soon starts collecting at least $50 million a year as the world’s top spot to buy recreational marijuana.

The Nevada Department of Taxation declared a “statement of emergency” Friday, as the state’s supply of marijuana was in danger of running out less than two weeks after dispensaries began selling the drug for recreational use.

Hundreds of people lined up outside of Nevada’s pot dispensaries to get their first dose of legal weed as the state became the fifth in the nation to allow marijuana for recreational use.

The Israeli government voted on Sunday in favor of decriminalizing recreational marijuana use, joining some U.S. states and European countries who have adopted a similar approach.

California voters approved the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, or Proposition 64, on Tuesday night, legalizing marijuana for recreational use throughout the state.

Businessman Steve Wynn says Nevada’s gun control ballot initiative–Question 1–contains so many constraints that a soldier leaving for deployment would be in violation of the law were he to leave a gun behind with his fiancée.

A Field poll released September 23 and conducted jointly with the University of California Berkeley shows that 6 out of 10 California Voters support Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s gun control Proposition 63.

With 39 million people, and a booming 20-year-old medical marijuana trade, California politicians will soon have $1 billion a year in extra cash to spend — if the new recreational marijuana initiative passes on the November ballot.

San Francisco could soon be home to the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the county, if not the world.