New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Blacks were disproportionately arrested for marijuana, but he never reportedly mentioned any sort of reparations for those same groups if weed were to be legalized.
DENVER (AP) — Denver officials are planning to clear thousands of marijuana convictions prosecuted before its use became legal in the state. Colorado was among the first states to broadly allow the use and sale of marijuana by adults, but cities elsewhere have led the way on automatic expungement of past misdemeanor marijuana convictions. A […]
Judges in Seattle have agreed to vacate the convictions of people who were punished due to marijuana possession before it was made legal. DL thinks that it should be taken a step further and it be legal for athletes too. He doesn’t believe athletes in places where it’s legal should be fined or punished for […]
Two women in Georgia are now facing charges after being arrested for selling marijuana edibles at a church event.
Shares of electric car maker Tesla Inc. fell more than 6 percent early Friday after the CEO appeared to smoke marijuana during an interview and the company’s accounting chief left after a month on the job. CEO Elon Musk appeared on “The Joe Rogan Experience” overnight. About two hours into the podcast, which can be […]
An 80-year-old woman was arrested after a police officer discovered marijuana in her home. The officer was at the woman’s home to return a stolen cellphone when she offered to help the elderly woman clean up. While in the home, she noticed marijuana. The woman admitted to smoking the marijuana to help with pain, appetite […]
HOW DID YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GET INVOLVED IN THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA BUSINESS? While my sister and I were still in residency, our mom started evaluating patients for cannabis use after being asked to fill in at a card clinic in Portland. She had been retired from 32 years of anesthesia for a few […]
Racial disparities prompted the Minneapolis Police Department to ended undercover stings operations targeting small-scale marijuana sellers for arrest.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — When Oregon lawmakers created the state’s legal marijuana program, they had one goal in mind above all else: to convince illicit pot growers to leave the black market. That meant low barriers for entering the industry that also targeted long-standing medical marijuana growers, whose product is not taxed. As a result, […]
In 2012, the state of Washington legalized the use of marijuana making it recreational and accessible to almost everyone. The city of Seattle has decided to reverse past marijuana convictions between 1996 and 2010 that would help 542 people since the city has legalized the use according to the NY Daily News. “A drug conviction, even for […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A medicine made from the marijuana plant moved one step closer to U.S. approval Thursday after federal health advisers endorsed it for the treatment of severe seizures in children with epilepsy. If the Food and Drug Administration follows the group’s recommendation, GW Pharmaceuticals’ syrup would become the first drug derived from the […]
