The new penalties take effect today and will run for six months. They include a 30-day license suspension or a fine of $4,950. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission announced … that it was temporarily increasing penalties for pot shops that sell marijuana to minors. Previously the penalty was a 10-day license suspension or a $1,650…
“We’ve never had any interest in One East Broadway,” Chris Woods, chief executive for Terrapin Care Station in Boulder, Colo., said. A Colorado-based marijuana company will indeed open a pot retail store in downtown Eugene, but it won’t be at the location the company initially announced. Terrapin Care Station on Thursday said that on Tuesday…
A Colorado marijuana company said it plans to buy a building in the heart of downtown Eugene, across from Kesey Square, and open a pot shop there. The prominence of the building — at the crossroads of Willamette and Broadway — is exactly why Boulder, Colo.-based Terrapin Care Station wants the property, Peter Marcus, spokesman…
Opponents of cannabis reform always claim that legalization will increase teen use of marijuana, but statistics from canna-legal states are increasingly proving that the exact opposite is true. Despite the [current] administration’s constant anti-cannabis rhetoric, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) has confirmed that teen marijuana use has dropped in almost every…
According to the study, violent crime in such states has fallen by an average of 13% since legal cannabis was put on the books, and at even higher rates regarding homicide. Among U.S. states bordering Mexico that have medical marijuana laws (MMLs), they found that California saw the highest overall reduction in violent crime, at…
Jeff Sessions has just shown “how out of touch he is with scientists and taxpayers” and that siccing federal prosecutors on pot offenders will just needlessly jam the jails with more prisoners, said Jasmine Taylor of Human Rights Watch. “This will no doubt spike arrests and fuel mass incarceration, largely for people of color, but…
Instead of allowing people to use a natural form of a plant that can cure them, Jeff Sessions will use taxpayer dollars to continue cannabis prohibition while his DEA grants a monopoly on the exact same substance—only synthetic—to Insys [who has attempted to stop the natural marijuana market and were arrested for allegedly bribing doctors]. Along with the executives,…
Perhaps the absence of the Cole Memo, and the outrage following its repeal, will finally get Congress to act and do something meaningful. In reality, the Cole Memo was limited, vague, and had no force of law – any Attorney General could overturn it at will (as… has… been done). It was the appearance of…
*A comparison of the constant U.S. federal prison population and constant federal debt (in constant 2013 dollars) from the 1940s to 1980, and the dramatic increase in both from 1980 to 2012. There is no causality connecting them other than that they are both caused by the policies of the federal government during those two…
“This partnership gives the public confidence and security in knowing that a medical professional … will be able to share an honest opinion of treatment options,” JJ McKay, the founder and publisher of The Fresh Toast, explained. “This partnership does not view cannabis as a silver bullet that can cure chronic diseases, but rather as…
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