New Hampshire’s new platform was passed by acclamation, meaning it did not require a vote to pass, while in Texas the entire platform passed by a voice vote. Democrats in both states supported alternative approaches to drug policy which shift the focus away from law enforcement. “We believe that marijuana should be legalized, taxed and regulated,”…
The Food and Drug Administration has ended its investigation of a small salmonella outbreak linked to kratom …no single source of the outbreak was ever identified, but kratom was considered the “likely source.” There have been several other salmonella outbreaks this year, including infections linked to melons, raw sprouts, dried and shredded coconut, live poultry,…
“Simply put, Congress, our elected legislature charged with passing laws and creating the federal criminal code, should not delegate the power to enact new criminal punishments to a federal law enforcement agency,” the coalition writes. “It has been well-documented that federal agencies create laws that lead to overcriminalization; this bill would take us further down…
The Oregon Court of Appeals has overturned commercial cannabis restrictions in Josephine County. The restrictions included zoning and size limits for growing plots… Original Article (KTVL):Josephine County cannabis ordinance overruledArtwork Fair Use: Alex Ang
The SITSA Act, which has not yet been approved by the Senate, would expand the Controlled Substances Act to include one additional category of drugs: Schedule A. [The SITSA Act] which is intended to help fight the growing opioid epidemic in the US. Unfortunately [and unnecessarily], it could also have the side effect of giving the Department of Justice…
The Federal Analogue Act, passed way back in 1986, already created substantial authority for prosecutors to treat synthetic analogs the same way as they would treat the drugs they resemble. Additionally, in November 2017, the Drug Enforcement Administration established a new order that automatically scheduled any fentanyl analog into the same legal category as fentanyl.…
If passed [STATES Act], it would essentially become a concrete version of the now infamous Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, which has protected medical marijuana states from the wrath of the Justice Department, on a temporary basis, for the past several years. But with the STATES Act, the recreational marijuana sector would also find protection under a permanent…
Len Saunders is an immigration lawyer practising in Blaine, Washington, a busy port of entry for British Columbians headed to the U.S. He said that while instances of Canadians being denied entry for smoking marijuana were once rare (he estimates he looked at only a few cases per year as recently as 15 years ago)…
Employers and many others are quietly taking what once would have been a radical step: They’re dropping marijuana from the drug tests they require of prospective employees. Excluding marijuana from testing marks the first major shift in workplace drug policies since employers began regularly screening applicants in the late 1980s. They did so after a…
Earlier this month at a Capitol Hill press conference… Schumer [said] when we could expect his long-awaited bill. “It will be introduced shortly,” he said briskly. Advocates say the legislation could be be groundbreaking. They say it includes a new provision creating a much needed fund to help more minorities and women enter the multibillion-dollar…
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