Notwithstanding federal pot prohibition, the appeals court says, the requirement violated the Commerce Clause's implicit prohibition of anti-competitive interstate trade barriers.
If all of the ballot initiatives succeed, pot will be legal in 25 states.
The Justice Department says that policy is rational and consistent with the right to keep and bear arms.
Alabama's attorney general argues such medical transitioning is not rooted in America’s history and therefore not constitutionally protected.
The settlement came after the Justice Department agreed to return more than $1 million in proceeds from state-licensed marijuana businesses in California.
Nikki Fried, a Democrat, is suing the Biden administration, arguing that the policy violates the Second Amendment and a congressional spending rider.
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The bill is the latest sign of strange new respect for drugs that were once routinely depicted as menaces to body and soul.
A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order, saying the evidence of legal violations is insufficient at this point.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves' grudging support for medical marijuana speaks volumes about the erosion of support for prohibition.
Sixteen years after Gonzales v. Raich, Thomas is back with another opinion criticizing the federal government’s marijuana ban.
In an opinion respecting the denial of certiorari, Justice Thomas suggests it may be time to reconsider Gonzales v. Raich
The puzzle of marijuana's Schedule I status invites a reconsideration of the agency's vast discretion to decide which substances should be prohibited.
The president still has not caught up with most Americans on marijuana policy.
Under current law, marijuana users who possess firearms are committing a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
As stimulus checks started landing in Americans' bank accounts, demand for medical marijuana went through the roof.
The best available evidence suggests fears about fetal risk, while not totally unwarranted, are often overblown.
A compromise is now circulating that would establish a market but also allow growing at home.
Voters approved it, but the governor resisted. A court came down on her side.
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It is the first state to do both at the same time.
Mississippi is the 35th state, and the second in the Deep South, to recognize marijuana as a medicine.
Two states are voting to permit medical marijuana. Four are voting for legalization.
While there are still numerous barriers to access in Louisiana's medical marijuana system, a specific list of "qualifying conditions" will no longer be one of them.
The Justice Department concluded in 2018 that an anti-drug treaty requires stricter controls than the DEA originally planned.
Massachusetts is the only state that has closed recreational outlets while allowing medical sales to continue.
A strain of CBD oil used to treat children with a rare epileptic disorder is named after her.
The case illustrates the injustice and irrationality of Pennsylvania's "zero tolerance" approach to stoned driving.
The overturned rules banned microscopes and shovels as drug paraphernalia and prohibited pictures of cannabis or the equipment used to grow it.
Of the 50 states, three territories, and 10 provinces that make up the United States and Canada, all but one have legalized some form of either medical or recreational cannabis.
In Louisiana, the legal medical marijuana scheme is a mess: Physicians' hands are tied by state regulators and there's not enough pot to go around for the patients who need it.
CTPharma's collaboration with Yale researchers seems to be the first clinical trial involving U.S.-grown marijuana that is not supplied by the federal government.
The science is unsettled, and a complete evaluation has to consider benefits as well as risks.
The agency takes one small, mostly symbolic step for kind bud.
Obama denied him clemency. Will Trump set him free?
After nearly three years of ghosting research cannabis applicants, the DEA has 30 days to explain its inaction.
Survey data contradict fears that underage cannabis consumption would rise after states allowed recreational use by adults.
A solid majority of congressmen, including 41 Republicans, voted for a spending rider that bars the Justice Department from interfering with the legalization of cannabis for medical or recreational use.
"I think it’s ridiculous I would have to trade one of my rights," said veteran Joshua Raines.
"After all our service members have sacrificed, how can we penalize them for working in their state's legal economy?"
The answer may depend on how you measure patients' legal access to cannabis.
Thomas J. Franzen is going to prison for ordering too much medicine.
Regulators are gearing up for a long debate about the size, shape, and other specifications of edibles.
What a difference a few decades make when it comes to letting the states decide marijuana's status.
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