U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone was unimpressed by the Biden administration's argument that marijuana users are too "dangerous" to own guns.
Under the new Kentucky law, state-licensed dispensaries will begin serving qualifying patients in 2025.
Seven sheriff's deputies say the rapper subjected them to "embarrassment, ridicule, emotional distress, humiliation, and loss of reputation" after a drug bust on his house came up empty.
Defending a categorical ban on gun possession by cannabis consumers, the Biden administration cites inapt "historical analogues."
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Even as the president bemoans the injustice of pot prohibition, his administration insists that cannabis consumers have no right to arms.
A ballot initiative that would have allowed recreational use was defeated by a large margin in a special election.
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D.C. is destroying its thriving cannabis industry with bureaucracy and red tape.
It is hard to find evidence of this "disturbing trend."
The paper pushes modest reforms while endorsing continued criminalization.
The president reaped political benefits with his pre-election proclamation but has yet to follow through.
Is it just to punish the many for the excesses of the few?
Because legislators omitted a crucial letter, there is no straightforward way to downgrade convictions for offenses that are no longer felonies.
Cannabis consumers should have the same commercial leisure spaces that alcohol drinkers do.
The government argued that marijuana users have no Second Amendment rights because they are dangerous, unvirtuous, and untrustworthy.
Gov. Andy Beshear issued a conditional pardon aimed at protecting people who use marijuana for medical purposes from criminal prosecution.
The senator bemoans the "cannabis crisis" he helped maintain by blocking the SAFE Banking Act.
Federal sentences for simple marijuana possession dropped by 93 percent over seven years.
The prospects in the next session, when Republicans will control the House, are iffy.
The year’s highlights in buck passing feature petulant politicians, brazen bureaucrats, careless cops, loony lawyers, and junky journalists.
S.B. 58, which emulates an initiative that Colorado voters approved last month, would legalize the use of five psychoactive substances found in fungi and plants.
Although both bills have broad bipartisan support, they never got a vote in the Senate and were excluded from the omnibus spending bill.
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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.
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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.
Making it easier for scientists to study marijuana is a far cry from the liberalization that most Americans want.
While Biden issued pardons and ordered a review of marijuana's Schedule I status, he still supports the federal ban on weed.
Biden should exercise his pardon power to help some of the people whose lives his criminal justice policies destroyed.
Until next year's, because capitalism is always making things better.
The ACLU of Oregon is calling on other state governors to follow suit.
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Nearly 20 months after the state legalized recreational use, no licensed pot shops have opened, but the black market is booming.
To be eligible for a pardon, patients will have to obtain cannabis from other states and document their diagnoses and purchases.
Legalization is unlikely in the foreseeable future, but banking reform and expungement could be feasible.
"People die from hard physical labor and inability to access medical treatment that they need," said one former inmate.
It's best to avoid sparking up a doobie on a spaceship, but there are other ways to consume substances in the cosmos.
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.
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.
Even people who use cannabis for medical purposes risk severe penalties for daring to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Since approving medical marijuana by a wide margin in 2016, North Dakotans have said no twice to allowing recreational use.
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