cannabis

The head of the major gardening supply company Scotts Miracle-Gro says President Donald Trump called a proposal to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II—rather than Schedule III, as he ultimately directed last week—a “half-assed” move amid “hardcore arguing” in discussions about the reform. Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO Jim Hagedorn—whose Hawthorne Gardening Company unit provides…

A Democratic senator has filed a bill aimed at laying the groundwork for federal marijuana legalization. Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) introduced the legislation—titled the Preparing Regulators Effectively for a Post-Prohibition Adult-Use Regulated Environment Act (PREPARE) Act—on Thursday. The measure would direct the attorney general to create a commission charged with making recommendations on a regulatory…

Federally funded survey data compiled by the University of Michigan reports that teen marijuana use has declined significantly since states began regulating adult-use cannabis markets and is now at or near historic lows. Consistent with numerous other federally sponsored surveys, teens’ use of cannabis has steadily declined since 2012 — when voters in Colorado and…

Teen marijuana use “remained stable” this year even as more states have enacted legalization, according to an annual federally funded survey The Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey—supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and conducted every year for decades by the University of Michigan—examines substance use trends among 8th, 10th and 12th grade…