Chuck Schumer Scrambles To Save the Marijuana Banking Bill He Blocked Last Year
The Senate majority leader is suddenly keen to pass legislation that he portrayed as a threat to broader reform.
The Senate majority leader is suddenly keen to pass legislation that he portrayed as a threat to broader reform.
A study credits "an overall lower police search rate," the result of new priorities and legal constraints.
Plus: The editors briefly celebrate a noteworthy shake-up in the Senate.
Naloxone could be available without a prescription by spring.
While Griner's release is welcome news, it's important to remember the thousands of Americans imprisoned for drug offenses here in the U.S.
While Biden issued pardons and ordered a review of marijuana's Schedule I status, he still supports the federal ban on weed.
Plus: The editors consider what type of fresh attacks the marijuana legalization movement is likely to encounter.
Nearly 20 months after the state legalized recreational use, no licensed pot shops have opened, but the black market is booming.
Legalization is unlikely in the foreseeable future, but banking reform and expungement could be feasible.
Lighter regulation is one likely explanation.
People with money on the line try harder than pundits to be right, and they adjust quickly when they've made a mistake.
Proposition 122 is the broadest liberalization of psychedelic policy ever enacted in the United States.
Two more states legalized recreational marijuana on Tuesday, while decriminalization of five natural psychedelics looks like a winner in Colorado.
Some reformers opposed the initiative, deeming it anti-competitive and needlessly prescriptive.
A 2020 initiative was overturned by the courts, and this year's version was rejected by voters.
Early polling showed a majority favored the change, but support fell in the face of opposition from leading Republicans and conservative groups.
Since approving medical marijuana by a wide margin in 2016, North Dakotans have said no twice to allowing recreational use.
Voters approved a constitutional amendment allowing adults 21 or older to use cannabis and instructing legislators to authorize commercial production and distribution.
The ballot initiative also would authorize state-licensed "healing centers" where adults could obtain psychedelics for supervised use.
The unsubstantiated threat that strangers with cannabis candy allegedly pose to trick-or-treaters is an urban legend that never dies.
A protest at the White House calls attention to the thousands of federal cannabis offenders who remain incarcerated.
The Golden State promises a progressive, environmentally conscious, labor-friendly war on weed.
Extreme taxes and regulations are hampering legal marijuana markets.
From immigration to drug reform, there is plenty of potential for productive compromise.
Even as he pardons thousands of marijuana users, the president stubbornly resists legalization.
Cannabis has long been classified as having "high potential for abuse" and "no currently accepted medical use." That makes it harder to study and, therefore, harder to reclassify.
The president's mass pardon does not extend to pot suppliers, and his rescheduling plans won't make marijuana a legal medicine.
Despite opposing the drug war, and indicating that he will even vote for the measure himself, the state LP's chairman said the initiative would not get the party's stamp of approval.
Ten years after Colorado and Washington embraced legalization, the movement looks unstoppable.
Empire State politicians will soon wonder why the marijuana black market still thrives.
The results confirm that the ongoing collapse of marijuana prohibition has not boosted underage consumption.
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The former TV doctor, who two years ago said "we ought to completely change our policy on marijuana," mocks his opponent for agreeing.
The California governor argued that the bill could lead to "a world of unintended consequences."
Notwithstanding federal pot prohibition, the appeals court says, the requirement violated the Commerce Clause's implicit prohibition of anti-competitive interstate trade barriers.
The governor, like Republican politicians in other red states where support for legalization is surprisingly strong, does not seem to think it is risky to defy public opinion.
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.
The millennial news site called them hypocrites, but Greg Gutfeld and Kat Timpf have a long history of advocating drug legalization.
Travelers caught with small amounts of marijuana at the U.S. border face much less severe punishment.
With 28 percent of Americans trying hallucinogens, the days are numbered for bans.
The Senate majority leader has repeatedly blocked a bill that would address the robbery threat to state-licensed pot shops.
The Senate majority leader’s marijuana bill would pile on more taxes and regulations, despite years of complaints about the barriers they create.
The Senate majority leader's 296-page bill would compound the barriers to successful legalization.
Federal and state agencies are busting unlicensed marijuana merchants, who face decades in prison.
With its unnecessarily complicated and contentious provisions, the MORE Act received only three Republican votes in April.
Meanwhile, Delaware's governor has blocked a more modest step, and a legalization initiative has qualified for the ballot in South Dakota.
The Republican Senate candidate is echoing decades of anti-pot propaganda, but evidence to support his hypothesis is hard to find.