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The Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill to allow patients to use medical marijuana in hospitals. While both the House and Senate earlier this month approved differing versions of the cannabis legislation, the sponsors of those bills have agreed on a compromise approach which cleared the House in a 97-1 vote on Tuesday.…
Virginia House Passes Bill To Allow Medical Marijuana Use In Read More »
President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as U.S. surgeon general says that, while she wouldn’t recommend that Americans experiment with psychedelics like she has, there’s “exciting” research indicating that substances such as psilocybin can effectively treat serious mental health conditions that she would continue to follow if confirmed for the job. During a confirmation hearing…
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“Another example of why we should be a unicameral Legislature.” By Leslie Bonilla Muniz and Tom Davies, Indiana Capital Chronicle A ban on intoxicating and synthetic hemp-derived products died Monday after Indiana House lawmakers failed to call it down ahead of a second reading deadline. Senate Bill 250 would have mirrored a recent federal law that…
Indiana Bill To Ben Hemp THC Products Dies As Key Read More »
“It moves us closer to the day patients can speak openly with their doctors and families like mine can finally see the relief our loved ones have waited so long for.” By Juan Salinas II, Nebraska Examiner The Nebraska Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee advanced a bill onto the floor that explicitly protects physicians…
Nebraska Lawmakers Vote To Protect Doctors Who Recommend Medical Marijuana Read More »
President Donald Trump delivered a lengthy State of the Union address on Tuesday, touching on a wide range of policy issues he’s championed in the first year of his second term. But to the disappointment of advocates and stakeholders, the president did not take the primetime opportunity to promote his work around marijuana rescheduling. Trump…
Trump ‘Missed An Opportunity’ To Promote Marijuana Rescheduling During State Read More »
“Rescheduling…does not free a single person from prison, clear a single criminal record or repair the racial harm created by decades of cannabis prohibition.” By Stephanie Shepard, Last Prisoner Project Every Black History Month, we are asked to reflect on how far our country has come, and to honor progress, resilience and the long fight…
This Black History Month, Simply Rescheduling Marijuana Isn’t Enough While Read More »
For more than 50 years, NORML has been ‘setting the record straight’ on cannabis. Today, this job is more important than ever. You’ve no doubt seen the headlines. More and more, sensational claims about marijuana are going unchallenged in mainstream reporting. Fortunately, NORML is there to respond. Most recently, editors at the New York Times…
Mainstream Media’s New Era of Reefer Madness Read More »
The founder of Culinary & Cannabis didn’t wait for the industry to make room for her. She built her own. For decades, cannabis was a weapon. A pretext for prejudice, a set of handcuffs dressed up as public safety, a battering ram through the front doors of Black and Brown homes. The communities that got…
Tamara Anderson Is Not Here to Ask Permission Read More »
With the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear a case next week on the constitutionality of a federal gun ban for marijuana users, attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are feeling “hopeful” that justices will take their side over the Trump administration’s Justice Department and ultimately declare the current policy unlawful. Oral arguments…
ACLU Attorney ‘Confident’ Supreme Court Will Strike Down Gun Ban Read More »
VA marijuana sales bill; OR medical cannabis in hospices; FL medical marijuana for vets; Psychedelic legalization poll; Op-ed calling out NYT’s stance Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible……
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