NORML’s 50-Year Fight to Deschedule Cannabis September 7, 2023 Tom Hymes Descheduling or Rescheduling Marijuana, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments As much as NORML has been in the cannabis spotlight as the preeminent organization fighting to normalize a plant that has helped so many of us so profoundly, a whispered consensus could likely be found that its day has come… Read More→
Fifty Years: How Marijuana Became Re-Legalized In America January 9, 2019 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 0 Comments Part of a year-long series, longtime cannabis law reform advocate and historian Allen St. Pierre examines monthly for Cannabis Business Executive the last fifty years of cannabis prohibition and the public advocacy efforts in America to bring about the ongoing and… Read More→
2017 Recap and New Year’s Wishes from Cannabis Industry Leaders! December 26, 2017 Rob Meagher News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments The cannabis industry began 2017 with a high degree of optimism but also a great deal of uncertainty. The fall of 2016 saw tremendous movement towards legalization with new initiatives in the form of full legalization in California, Nevada, Maine… Read More→
Are We Getting Closer to a ‘Supreme’ Moment in the Cannabis Industry? December 11, 2017 David Hodes Compliance and Regulations 0 Comments For years, thought leaders in the cannabis business have spoken about the possibility that the issue of cannabis prohibition would some day find its way into the Supreme Court. That day was just pushed a little closer to reality by… Read More→
Another One Bites the Dust, Nadelmann Steps Down From Drug Policy Alliance February 6, 2017 Rob Meagher Industry People 0 Comments Following the example of his long-time peer and fellow activist and advocate Allen St.Pierre, Ethan Nadelmann announced last week that he is ending a 23-year career of fighting the good fight to move on to his next great adventure. In an… Read More→
Former NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre Joins Venture Capital Firm Sensible Alternative Investments January 11, 2017 Press Release On the Move, Press Releases 0 Comments PRESS RELEASE Experienced team anchors cannabis fund with investment in MERRY JANE BOSTON, MA – JAN. 11 - Sensible Alternative Investments (SAI), a venture capital firm focused on institutional investment opportunities in the cannabis industry, has named former NORML Executive… Read More→
DEA Mis-scheduling of Cannabis to Keep the Status Quo Ante August 15, 2016 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal 2 Comments Bitter sweetly, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has affirmed the woeful mis-scheduling of cannabis as a Schedule I drug after sitting on a number of multi-year old petitions (and decades of formal administrative legal challenges). Despite the existing Compassionate Investigational… Read More→
FREEDOM LEAF, INC. STRIKES GOLD WITH THE ADDITION OF ALLEN ST. PIERRE, 25-YEAR LEADER OF NORML July 12, 2016 AggregatedNews On the Move, Press Releases 2 Comments PRESS RELEASE LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - July 11, 2016) - Freedom Leaf, Inc., (OTC PINK: FRLF), announced today that Allen St. Pierre, long time NORML Executive Director, has joined Freedom Leaf as Vice President of Communications and Advocacy following his… Read More→
Allen St. Pierre Resigns from NORML July 8, 2016 Rob Meagher Industry People 2 Comments CBE Press learned today that Allen St.Pierre, who has championed the cause of ending Cannabis Prohibition in the United States while helping any and all that have run afoul of its ugly ramifications, resigned as Executive Director of NORML after… Read More→
Drug Testing Post Pot Prohibition June 23, 2016 Allen St. Pierre Policy & Legal, Science and Technology 1 Comment Drug testing, one of the major components of the government's war on some drugs, like the unpopular policy itself, may be waning as cannabis commerce replaces prohibition. According to the American Management Association, drug testing in the workplace hit a… Read More→
At Last, Here Come the Lawyers to the Cannabis Commerce Scene! June 16, 2016 Allen St. Pierre News & Insights, Policy & Legal 0 Comments What’s that sound? Off in the distance, the mighty sound of hoofbeats, kicking up a storm of dust. Gucci-clad men and women with white cowboy hats emerge from the surge, here to provide their best legal advice and services: It’s… Read More→