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President Trump Approval Promises Substantial Growth for Cannabis Industry

April 20, 2018 at 3:06 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Recreational Marijuana

DENVER — America’s fast-growing marijuana industry appears poised for supercharged growth after winning what cannabis entrepreneurs see as approval from the Trump administration to forge ahead. The legal marijuana market was already growing exponentially despite fears of a federal crackdown under Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but Trump’s signal that he’ll respect state legalization may swing open the floodgates by reassuring traditional investors, entrepreneurs and local lawmakers that it’s OK to jump in. Across the nation, risk-takers have poured [...]

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Libertarian Party Candidate Gary Johnson on Marijuana

May 7, 2016 at 1:04 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

Libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson thinks President Obama will reschedule marijuana this year. (Libertarian Party Candidate Gary Johnson on Marijuana – Weed Finder™ News | Video Credit: NowThis)

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The Revolution of the Hemp Industry

July 8, 2015 at 2:14 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization

STUYVESANT, N.Y. — It started with Hurricane Katrina: the flooded houses in New Orleans festering with mold, many uninhabitable to this day. Then came the earthquake in Haiti: thousands dead, crushed by homes that should have been their sanctuaries. James Savage, then a Wall Street analyst living on Central Park West, grew disturbed about the conditions he saw on television and in the newspapers. “There has to be something better we can do than this,” he recalled thinking last week [...]

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POLL: Should Texas Legalize Marijuana?

January 9, 2015 at 1:14 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

Posted Monday, January 5th 2015 @ 5am by iHeartRadio’s Nik Rajkovic Is Texas the next big test for legalizing weed? State lawmakers will debate several pro-marijuana bills in 2015. “There’s going to be a full legalization bill to regulate and tax marijuana similar to alcohol,” says Jason Miller at the Houston chapter of NORML. “There is going to be a civil penalty bill which is going to decriminalize small possession amounts, and there’s also going to be a comprehensive medical marijuana [...]

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Reporter Quits Live On-Air to Run Cannabis Business

September 22, 2014 at 12:48 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization

Viewers of CBS affiliate KTVA-TV in Anchorage, Alaska were jolted Sunday evening during the station’s newscast as reporter Charlo Greene dropped an F-bomb, disclosed that she was the owner of a cannabis club in the city and informed the audience she was quitting her TV job. “Fuck it, I quit,” Greene said with a shrug at the close of a report about efforts to decriminalize marijuana in the state, which will vote on the issue in November. Greene disclosed that [...]

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Majority in Favor of Marijuana Legalization in Maryland

November 18, 2013 at 10:29 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The latest evidence that marijuana legalization has reached the tipping point comes from Maryland, where a new Goucher Poll has a slim majority for legalization, as well as strong support for decriminalization and overwhelming support for medical marijuana. The poll found that 51% supported marijuana legalization, while 90% supported medical marijuana, if prescribed by a doctor. The poll also asked whether marijuana possessors should be jailed, subjected to drug treatment, or fined. A near majority (49%) supported fines (or decriminalization), while 34% supported [...]

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Grand Rapids Marijuana Decriminalization Stands

May 7, 2013 at 5:25 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A Kent County, Michigan judge on Monday ruled that the voter-approved decriminalization of marijuana in Grand Rapids is valid. Judge Paul Sullivan dismissed Kent County Prosecutor William Forsyth’s attempt to nullify the charter amendment, approved by voters last November, reports John Tunison at Mlive.com. Judge Sullivan ruled that possession of less than 2.5 ounces of cannabis in Grand Rapids can, indeed, be handled as a civil infraction, just as voters had already decided. Prosecutor Forsyth unsuccessfully argued that the amendment conflicts [...]

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New Poll Shows that D.C. Wants Legal Weed

April 19, 2013 at 9:15 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Ahead of Vox‘s favorite day to enjoy nature, D.C. gives us another reason to be glad Georgetown is located in such a liberal city. A new poll released today by the Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Policy Project found that 63 percent of residents supported enacting Colorado-esquelegalization schemes here in the District. A further 78 percent of residents said that they would like to expand D.C.’s medical marijuana law so that doctors could prescribe cannabis to patients for any condition whatsoever. (The current law hasquite restrictive [...]

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Vermont House Votes To Decriminalize Marijuana

April 12, 2013 at 11:53 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

After three hours of debate, the Vermont House votes 98-44 to make it a civil offense to possess one ounce or less of marijuana. *** Supporters of decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana appear poised to clear a major hurdle. The Vermont House is set to vote today on a bill that would make it a civil offense – rather than a criminal one – to possess one ounce or less of the drug. If the bill is [...]

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