D.C. Reinforces and Expands Its Ban on Public Pot Consumption
The new ordinance limits marijuana use to private residences.
The new ordinance limits marijuana use to private residences.
Despite a prohibitionist tantrum, pot is legal in the nation's capital.
The likely presidential candidate now says states should be free to legalize.
The failure to block Initiative 71 highlights the waning influence of prohibitionists.
Initiative 71 seems to override a law against "consumption of marijuana in public space."
Is implementing the District's marijuana legalization initiative a felony?
The percentage supporting legalization is, if anything, higher than before it took effect.
Provisions allowing possession, sharing, and home cultivation take effect today.
States would still be free to ban the drug.
Property owners sue cannabusinesses under RICO.
Delivering piles of (federally) illegal drug money directly to the IRS
Rules for sharing, consumption, and possession may need clarification.
Patients would have to register, and recreational consumers could not grow their own.
One reason a link between marijuana and car crashes is hard to verify
A major study finds no link between pot and car accidents.
The District's attorney general warns that further legalization would be illegal.
The former drug czar's defense of marijuana prohibition is about as strong as ditch weed.
An attempt to provide cannabusinesses with banking services could be blocked by bureaucratic resistance.
The former drug czar claims marijuana is just as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco.
With one year of data, it's hard to perceive a trend.
Loretta Lynch denies the obvious truth that pot is less dangerous than alcohol.
Local legislators ban consumption in "public places," except for licensed premises.
The American Academy of Pediatrics wants to see more study of the plant's medical uses.
The proposal abolishes dispensaries, expands state-licensed outlets, and allows home cultivation.
What use is a pot-sniffing canine when pot is no longer contraband?
Marijuana legalization complicates the use of drug-detecting canines.
"I just feel like everybody should basically take care of their own."
The New York Times is vaguely troubled by innovation and investment in the cannabis industry.
Legalization takes effect automatically unless Congress enacts a resolution of disapproval.
Don't consumers of marijuana edibles have a responsibility to be careful?
A new bill would license pot shops in the nation's capital.
The collapse of pot prohibition divides Republicans and exposes fair-weather federalists.
Wall Street Journal review of the new book, Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High, by Mike Power
Why an anti-drug rider failed to keep cannabis criminal in the capital