Vince Sliwoski, Attorney at Harris Bricken Happy MLK Day! If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he would almost certainly advocate to end the War on Drugs. Dr. King never spoke publicly about drugs or cannabis in particular: he was assassinated in 1968, two years before President Nixon signed the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).…

While the SAFE Banking Act continues its seemingly never-ending rise and fall through the halls of Congress, it’s important to take a step back and ask what would actually be accomplished if the bill were to pass.  Would this mean that any legitimate cannabis business can walk into any bank and conduct business as usual?…

A US Senate candidate in Louisiana released a campaign ad Tuesday in which he smokes marijuana in an attempt to spark what he calls “a new conversation” around the drug. Gary Chambers Jr., a Democrat and social justice activist, is shown in the ad sitting in a chair and taking puffs from a rolled marijuana blunt.…

Paradise’s focus is on the growing market for CBD products A chain of cannabis stores part owned by former president Vicente Fox is pursuing an aggressive expansion strategy: it intends to open 130 additional outlets by the end of the year. Paradise, which sells products such as CBD (cannabidiol) oil, hemp oil, bongs, pipes, marijuana…