The California Supreme Court ruled today that municipalities possess the legal authority to prohibit the establishment of medical cannabis dispensaries. The unanimous ruling upheld a 4th District Court of Appeals opinion (City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patients’ Health and Wellness Center, Inc.) which held that local zoning measures banning the establishment of brick-and-mortar facilities that engage in the distribution of cannabis to state-authorized persons are not preempted by state law.
Representative Robert F. Hagan (D-Youngstown) has introduced a measure that would put marijuana legalization on…
LD 1229, which aims to make Maine the third state to tax and regulate marijuana…
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Nearly nine out of ten Americans — including 80 percent of self-identified Republicans — now say that marijuana should be legal if its use is authorized by a physicians, according to nationwide Fox News telephone poll of 1,010 registered voters. The poll, released today, was conducted by under the direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) and possesses margin of sampling error of ± 3 percentage points.
While marijuana represented a symbol of rebellion and counter culture to the boomer generation of the 60s and 70s – today, for us millennials, marijuana legalization simply makes good political and economic sense.
While there is nothing genuinely funny about a seventy-five year prohibition on cannabis that has…
The federal government’s anti-drug efforts are inefficient and ineffective, according to a just released report issued by the Congressional watchdog agency, the General Accountability Office (GAO).