As Washington was one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, there was this necessity to keep it “clean” and legitimate. “Washington state purposely excluded folks with criminal records, which disproportionately impacted folks in the medical [marijuana] community, because a lot of them had felony convictions for transporting and selling medicinal products,” [Michele] Cadigan said.…
“Planting home grows this season is more important than ever. Laws should be relaxed so people can grow their own… affordably…” “Cannabis people know how to manage crises, particularly those of us who have been around a while. We have a lot to contribute right now. We have huge opportunities to show our neighbors and…
Gone are the days of “I didn’t inhale” politics, apparently. Here are the days of people running for federal office while posting pictures of themselves smoking joints and growing marijuana plants. Congressional candidate Amanda Siebe… indication, the next class of Congress could be the most transparently pro-marijuana in history, embracing not just legislative reform but…
“…I want nothing to do with those kinds of folks who want to decriminalize psychedelics,” he says [a 32-year-old former Uber employee and co-founder]. …[he is part of] one of many companies trying to repurpose hallucinogenic molecules as the next blockbuster drug… has acquired the exclusive rights to eight clinical trials that are exploring the…
She argued that marijuana is as harmful as alcohol and opiates. “The legalization of marijuana is a proxy war, setting the stage for legalization of a variety of these other vice crimes” such as other drug use and sex work, [the] new press secretary wrote, arguing that cannabis reform advocates’ conception of liberty is itself…
In addition to highlighting ideological differences between licensing a product and providing it at cost or free of charge, the Compass patent has raised questions about efforts by companies to own forms of psychoactive substances, and the role IP claims play in promising returns to investors. Matthew Baggott, the former Director of Data Science and…
Frankly, this seems antithetical to the mission that many of the companies entering this space claim to have: increasing access to patients, offering reasonable prices, and working for the betterment of humanity … In the best of circumstances what emerges is a duopoly. Think Intel vs. AMD in the chip market.” Or, Apple vs. Android; Coca-Cola…
The measure would largely provide for additional funding for drug treatment by taking a major share of the tax revenue generated by legal cannabis sales [of which the state school fund currently gets 40 percent]. Under the measure, Oregon would be the first state to decriminalize possession of illegal drugs. The Drug Policy Alliance, a New…
Boulder Country District Attorney Michael Dougherty has met with decriminalization advocates, and describes their meeting as “really productive and positive.” …plans to push elected officials in every Boulder County municipality to pass decriminalization measures. “I kind of see that as being the way forward,” says Matthew Duffy [who worked on successful Denver decriminalization initiative] . “There’s some…
Margolin says that advocates believe that selling mushrooms like any other crop will help prevent hiccups that have occurred in the recreational marijuana industry. “Activists so far prefer that the mushroom industry be ‘abrogated into already existing industries’ … so as to avoid some of the pitfalls that we’ve experienced already with cannabis legalization, where…
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