Articles tagged with "legalization"

At this year’s NORML political conference, the halls were buzzing with people power.

A Massachusetts mayor was arrested Friday on charges he conspired to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies seeking to operate cannabis businesses, federal authorities said.

Cannabis legalization will be a hot ticket item in Indiana’s election next year. This cannabis activist is throwing in his bid for Governor.

Mexico is making moves on cannabis, with medical regulations expected in coming months and even the possibility of decriminalization later this year.

In Illinois, about 770,000 arrests and convictions, representing about 314,000 people, must be automatically expunged. A San Francisco technology company says it’s up to the task.

Receipts from April through June total $74 million as legal industry expands.

Under a revised plan being written by Republican Senate Majority Leader Evan Vickers, medical cannabis would instead be distributed through as many as 12 private dispensaries.

Law enforcement wants smokable hemp banned because it looks and smells the same— making it otherwise impossible to differentiate during police stops.

A new ruling out of the California Supreme Court this week will create yet another obstacle to the expansion of legal cannabis, at a time when more than half of the state’s cities and counties still ban retail stores.

Consumers are spending roughly $3 in the state’s underground cannabis economy for every $1 in the legal one, says a new report from industry analysts.