Harris: ‘Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed’ October 11, 2022 AggregatedNews Federal 1 Comment Vice President Harris during a late-night show interview backed the Biden administration’s decision to pardon thousands of Americans convicted of simple marijuana possession, saying “nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.” Harris told Seth Meyers on NBC’s “Late Night With… Read More→
Medical Marijuana Sponsorships of Sports Leagues Could Become a Reality if Biden-Harris Win November 3, 2020 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Professional sports leagues big and small are looking for ways to offset the revenues lost (and revenues that will be lost in 2021) because of the coronavirus pandemic. But to date, none of the four major U.S. leagues has been… Read More→
Over 50 current, former law enforcement professionals sign letter urging Congress to decriminalize marijuana August 20, 2020 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments Over 50 current and former law enforcement professionals have signed onto a letter urging Congress to take swift action on legislation introduced last year that seeks to decriminalize marijuana and expunge past convictions. The letter, which went out on Wednesday… Read More→
Pro & Con: Will A VP Kamala Harris Lead to Marijuana Legalization or Set it Back? August 20, 2020 Kris Krane Policy & Legal 0 Comments Editor's note: Kris Krane, who occasionally contributes to CBE, wrote a Pro and Con set of views in Forbes that provides readers with a look at what a Biden/Harris win could mean for the marijuana Industry based on Harris' track… Read More→
Kamala Harris just introduced a bill to decriminalize marijuana July 23, 2019 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments More than half of all states have taken some action to legalize or decriminalize marijuana, but using the drug is still a crime under federal law. Senators, including 2020 contenders Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have proposed legislation to… Read More→
Legalizing Marijuana, With a Focus on Social Justice, Unites 2020 Democrats March 18, 2019 AggregatedNews On the Move 0 Comments People in Colorado still remember John Hickenlooper’s crack after the state legalized marijuana, a move he opposed: “Don’t break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly.” But Mr. Hickenlooper, the governor at the time of the 2012 initiative allowing recreational… Read More→
2020 Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Support Marijuana Legalization Bill February 28, 2019 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, one of half a dozen Democratic senators running for the White House, is reintroducing a bill on Thursday that would fundamentally end the federal government's prohibition on marijuana. The Marijuana Justice Act, which was first introduced… Read More→
Where the 2020 presidential candidates stand on marijuana legalization February 21, 2019 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments If there's one thing that united Democrats and Republicans in the Reagan era (besides their unfortunate fixation with perms), it was their near universal hatred of weed. Everybody was a cop back then. Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate for president in 1984, called… Read More→
Pot for All: How Congress Is Trying to Make Weed Legal May 30, 2018 AggregatedNews Policy & Legal 0 Comments From decriminalization to opening up the banking industry, both sides of Congress are preparing cannabis bills – but with much different approaches Over the past decade, marijuana legalization has happened at break-neck speed at the state and local level. And yet,… Read More→