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| Oct 15, 2025 | California Governor Newsom Signs AB 1103 to Accelerate Psychedelic Research for Veterans and Mental Health Innovation | Legislation sponsored by Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions (VETS) will expedite critical research on psychedelic therapies for PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and substance use disorders in California
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 15, 2025 /P... |
| Feb 29, 2024 | Inside the pushback against drug re-criminalization | A bill aimed at rolling back key components of voter-approved Measure 110, which decriminalized possession of small amounts of illicit drugs, like heroin, fentanyl and meth, is expected to receive a vote in the Oregon House this week.
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| Aug 31, 2023 | What Would The Reclassification Of Marijuana Mean For The Industry? | UNITED STATES - APRIL 24: A U.S. flag redesigned with marijuana leaves blows in the wind as DCMJ.org ... [+] holds a protest in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday, April 24, 2017, to call on Congress to reschedule the drug classification o... |
| May 8, 2023 | U.S. backs study of safe injection sites, overdose prevention | For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal drugs and be revived if they take too mu... |
| Dec 22, 2022 | Chuck Schumer Has Only Himself To Blame For Marijuana Reform Failure | When Democrats took control of the House, Senate and White House in January 2021, supporters of marijuana policy reform were ecstatic at the prospect of meaningful cannabis reform in the 117th Congress. After all, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and i... |
| Dec 14, 2022 | From the Death Penalty to Marijuana, Clemency is a Tool For Justice | Yesterday, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown commuted the state’s entire death row. The death penalty in Oregon, as around the country, is unjust, unfair, and racially biased. Gov. Brown joins a bipartisan group of past and current governors who have ... |
| Oct 7, 2022 | Biden Makes Marijuana History: What Does It Really Mean? | Yesterday afternoon President Biden made a historic announcement about marijuana policy, laying out three actions he plans to take to help address the historic wrongs of marijuana prohibition. First, the President pledged to issue pardons t... |
| Oct 6, 2022 | Cannabis Professionals On Biden’s Decision To Pardon Those Convicted Of Federal Marijuana Possession | President-elect Joe Biden announces members of his climate and energy appointments at the Queen ... [+] theater on December 19, 2020 in Wilmington, DE. (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)Getty Images |
| Aug 15, 2022 | Adult-Use Cannabis Legalization Reduces Use Of Synthetic Cannabinoids, New Study Finds | NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 28: A child walks by two men who are high on K2 or 'Spice', a synthetic ... [+] marijuana drug, along a street in East Harlem on August 28, 2015 in New York City. New York, along with other cities, is experiencing a de... |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Driven by fentanyl, rates of fatal teen overdoses doubled in 2020 | After staying flat for a decade, the overdose death rate among U.S. adolescents nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020 — an alarming climb that continued into 2021, a study released Tuesday showed.
The reasons do not include a surge of children i... |
| Dec 28, 2021 | Cannabis Decriminalization Reduces The Racial Disparity, A New Study Suggests | NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 13: Marijuana legalization advocates and members of community groups attend a ... [+] rally against marijuana arrests in front of One Police Plaza on June 13, 2012 in New York City. The New York City Council is set to vo... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | Fab 5 Freddy And Curaleaf Launch B Noble With Former Prisoner Who Faced 13 Years For Two Joints | Be noble, be educated, and be loud. That’s the general sentiment behind B Noble, Fab 5 Freddy’s line of cannabis with Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF)—an entirely new concept in cannabis, as it directly involves former pri... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | America has spent over a trillion dollars fighting the war on drugs. 50 years later, drug use in the U.S. is climbing again. | June 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the war on drugs.
Since 1971, America has spent over a trillion dollars enforcing its drug policy, according to research from the University of Pennsylvania.
The war on drugs has done more harm than g... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Weedmaps CEO isn’t afraid of Amazon | Welcome to Insider Cannabis. AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico
Welcome to Insider Cannabis, our weekly newsletter where we’re bringing you an inside look at the deals, trends, and personalities driving the multibillion-dollar global cannabis boo... |
| Jun 4, 2021 | A 26-year-old who wanted to join the legal cannabis industry now sits in prison. Drug policy experts say he’s caught in a ‘gray area’ only federal legalization can clear up. | Jonathan Wall awaits trial in a federal cannabis conspiracy case. Provided by Jonathan’s attorney, Jason Flores
A 26-year-old Maryland native faces 15 years in federal prison there on marijuana conspiracy charges.
As some entrepreneurs stan... |
| Mar 5, 2021 | Top cannabis stock picks for 2021 | Welcome to Insider Cannabis. AP Photo/Steven Senne, File
Welcome to Insider Cannabis, our weekly newsletter where we’re bringing you an inside look at the deals, trends, and personalities driving the multibillion-dollar global cannabis boom... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | Cannabis companies raised $1.4 billion in January | A worker checks cannabis plants inside the Tilray factory hothouse in Cantanhede, Portugal April 24, 2019. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
Welcome to Insider Cannabis, our weekly newsletter where we’re bringing you an inside look at the deals, tre... |
| Jan 6, 2021 | Cuomo: Covid-19 Broke New York, So New York Should Legalize Marijuana | Covid-19 may be what New York State needs to finally legalize recreational marijuana. |
| Nov 17, 2020 | Decriminalization could help ease the nation’s drug epidemic, but the devil is in the details | Among the 120 statewide ballot measures before voters in the 2020 election, drug decriminalization measures passed in six states.
In Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota, voters approved legalizing marijuana use for adults, while ... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | Poll: Most Americans Want Congress To Abolish Civil Forfeiture | As cities debate “defunding the police,” a new poll shows that most Americans support ending policies that let law enforcement fund themselves by seizing property. Thanks to a power known as “civil forfeiture,” law enforcement agencies acro... |
| Jun 12, 2020 | Innovation in substance use disorder treatment: 5 Keys to Impact | |
| Mar 3, 2020 | 'We're Not Selling Weed, We're Selling Software': How Tech Gets Caught in Marijuana Laws | It was a rocky start to the year for Chris Violas, CEO of a growing software startup that services the cannabis industry. Violas got the kind of news that no one really wants to hear: Their payment processor, Stripe, had dumped them.
That m... |
| Jun 4, 2019 | Pregnant women with substance use disorders need treatment, not prison | More than 210,000 women spent Mother’s Day 2019 in America’s prisons and jails.
Two-thirds of them are mothers of young children; an unknown number are pregnant. Many of them have substance use disorders with a significant history of trauma... |
| Feb 19, 2019 | Pot is now so decriminalized in Delaware, it’s practically legal | On Monday, Delaware’s new attorney general, Kathy Jennings, laid out her plan for criminal justice reform in the state — and, among other things, announced that her office won’t prosecute for less than 175 grams of marijuana, or just over s... |
| Apr 28, 2018 | Seattle Moves to Wipe Out 2 Decades Of Marijuana Possession Convictions | The City of Seattle has filed a motion in municipal court to vacate – that is, retroactively void – all misdemeanor marijuana convictions in the city. According to a statement from Mayor Jenny Durkan, the request would effect 542 people. Th... |
| Jun 27, 2017 | The game changers: 12 bold attempts to slow the opioid epidemic | The spiral of opioid addictions and overdoses is unrelenting. But there are bright spots all across the country: Men and women working in classrooms and courtrooms, in private labs and public offices, in clinics and on the street — all tryi... |
| May 31, 2017 | Growing pot industry offers breaks to entice minorities | Oakland, Calif. —
Andre Shavers was sentenced to five years on felony probation after authorities burst into the house where he was living in one of Oakland’s most heavily policed neighborhoods and found a quarter ounce of marijuana.
After ... |
| Apr 25, 2017 | It’s time to kick our addiction to the war on drugs | As New Jersey Governor Chris Christie takes the lead in crafting the Trump administration’s response to the opioid crisis, he and his colleagues need to understand that we can’t fix the problem until we kick our long-term addiction to the w... |
| Nov 9, 2016 | 7 things to know now that Prop 64 is law | Now that California voters have passed Proposition 64, legalizing marijuana use for adults for recreational purposes, what’s next?
Here’s a look at seven things that reflect the new landscape in California when it comes to marijuana:
1. You... |
| Nov 7, 2016 | An investor’s journey to embracing marijuana legalization | David Chao Contributor
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| Jun 7, 2016 | Banning Everything That Gets People High Is a Terrible Idea | Last month, selling almost any substance that gets people high became illegal in the United Kingdom. Lawmakers made exceptions for alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, traditional foods like spices, and existing prescription drugs, but the blanket b... |
| Sep 28, 2015 | 71% Of Americans Oppose Civil Asset Forfeiture. Too Bad Their Representatives Don't Care. | According to a YouGov/Huffington Post poll, 71% of Americans are opposed to civil asset forfeiture.
Too bad their opinion doesn’t matter. This is part of the problem. |
| Apr 15, 2015 | Marijuana Is Still a Schedule 1 Drug, Judge Rules | Photo by Flickr user Brett Levin
Marijuana has come a long way since the paranoia of Reefer Madness. States that have legalized the drug are quickly getting rich on tax revenue from it, it's shown promise in treating all sorts of ailments, ... |
| Sep 2, 2014 | The value chain of an international drug trade | |
| Mar 13, 2014 | What this UN boss gets wrong on drug prohibition | |
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| 39-year-old’s cannabis business brings in $800,000 a month—16 years after he went to prison for selling drugs | A lot can change in 16 years.
In 2009, a drug conviction landed Coss Marte a seven-year prison sentence. This year, Marte expects to bring in as much as $12 million selling cannabis legally.
Marte, 39, is the founder and CEO of Conbud, one ... |
| Cannabis is projected to be a $70 billion market by 2028—yet those hurt most by the war on drugs lack access | As a cannabis entrepreneur based in Long Beach, California, Edgar Cruz’s work in the industry’s social equity space is personal.
At 15, Cruz had his first run-in with the law when he was arrested and charged for illegal possession of mariju... |
| Fifty Years After Nixon Declared War on Drugs, More Americans Want to Decriminalize Them | This story originally appeared on Weedmaps
On June 17, 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs," which history would later reveal was in actuality a war on Black people, the anti-war left, and hippies. Nixon's drug ... |
