DEA Says It Will Decide Whether to Reschedule Marijuana by Mid-2016 April 6, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights 2 Comments The Drug Enforcement Administration plans to decide whether marijuana should reclassified under federal law in “the first half of 2016,” the agency said in a letter to senators. DEA, responding to a 2015 letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and… Read More→
Marijuana Advocates Hold Massive Rally Outside White House April 4, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments WASHINGTON — The annual marijuana protest known as 4/20 came early this year. A few hundred people protesting federal drug policy arrived at the White House on Saturday, imploringPresident Obama to remove marijuana from the list of highly controlled Schedule I drugs.… Read More→
Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Colorado’s Marijuana Law March 21, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a conservative challenge to the marijuana legalization laws adopted in Colorado and elsewhere that permit adults to buy, sell or use one ounce of the drug. By a 6-2 vote, the justices turned away a… Read More→
New York Cannabis Company Lashes out, Calls Google’s Ad Policy “Evil” March 21, 2016 AggregatedNews Marketing, Science and Technology 1 Comment New York medical-marijuana companies opened their dispensaries for business in January, but it’s been difficult to get the word out. Not only does the state prohibit companies from approaching doctors about their products, but Google and Facebook have also put… Read More→
Is It Really Possible That the Cannabis Industry Could Rival “Big Tobacco?” February 29, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments Without proper controls, California’s marijuana industry could rival “Big Tobacco” as a threat to public health, warns an academic analysis of two ballot measures to legalize the drug. The study published this month by researchers at UC San Francisco doesn’t… Read More→
It May Not Help, But Utah Senate Asks Congress to Reclassify Cannabis February 24, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments n a more minor part of legislative debates on medical marijuana, the Senate passed SCR11 on Tuesday calling for Congress to reclassify marijuana to allow more research into its possible medical uses. It passed on a 25-0 vote, and now… Read More→
Feds Are Hitting Legal Marijuana Business With 70% Tax Rate February 18, 2016 AggregatedNews Banking, Finance & Real Estate 0 Comments Legal marijuana sales in Colorado and Washington have grossed billions, but legal dealers will see little of that thanks to a draconian federal law meant to punish street pushers. In one of the first years of legal sales, 2015, Colorado… Read More→
Obama Says Marijuana Reform Not on His 2016 Agenda January 29, 2016 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments Marijuana advocates hoping for a substantial shift in federal marijuana policy in the last year of the Obama administration are likely to be disappointed. At a briefing Friday, White House press secretary John Earnest said any progress on marijuana reform would… Read More→
Did the Federal Government Legalize Marijuana? Not quite… January 11, 2016 Jonathan Gilinski Policy & Legal 0 Comments Not quite, but a Bill Just Passed is a Positive First Step By Jonathan Gilinski What is the significance of this bill? Under the Rohrabacher-Farr bill, the federal government no longer has any say or oversight in policing or regulating… Read More→
Congress Set to Extend Cease Fire in Federal War on Medical Marijuana December 17, 2015 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Congress is set to extend a year-old cease-fire in the federal war on medical marijuana — sending a strong message to prosecutors to keep their hands off legal pot. Activists in Washington, DC report that lawmakers have included a renewal… Read More→
Postal Service Warns Newspapers: Marijuana Ads May Violate Federal Law December 3, 2015 AggregatedNews Marketing 0 Comments The U.S. Postal Service has warned newspapers that it is a felony to mail material that includes marijuana advertising. The Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association forwarded the recent federal advisory to its 100 or so members this week. The group's executive director said… Read More→
Some Members of Congress Want the DEA to Back Off Marijuana Enforcement November 30, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments The Drug Enforcement Administration is not having a great year. The chief of the agency stepped down in April under a cloud of scandal. The acting administrator since then has courted ridicule for saying pot is "probably not" as dangerous… Read More→
South Dakota Tribe Suspends Marijuana Operations, Want Federal Clarification November 9, 2015 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal, South Dakota 0 Comments The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe is temporarily suspending its marijuana cultivation and distributing facilities and is destroying its existing crop as leaders seek clarification on regulations from the federal government, according to the tribe's lawyer. Seth Pearman said the suspension is… Read More→
Hillary Clinton Follows Sanders, Now Wants Marijuana to be Reclassified November 9, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments Hillary Clinton on Saturday called for marijuana to be reclassified from a Schedule I drug to Schedule II, citing medical research. “I do support the use of medical marijuana,” Clinton said to a predominantly African-American audience at a town hall… Read More→
America’s Cops See Marijuana as the Least of Their Worries November 6, 2015 AggregatedNews News & Insights 0 Comments America's cops overwhelmingly do not see marijuana as a major threat to their communities, according to results of a survey released this week as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration's "2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary." The DEA asked a nationally-representative… Read More→