Why Are CBD Cocktails Still Prohibited in California?
For insomniacs and pain patients, CBD cocktails can be a better alternative to traditional ones.
For insomniacs and pain patients, CBD cocktails can be a better alternative to traditional ones.
2020 was nobody’s idea of a good year, but the ability to smoke pot in my own backyard, mostly free from fear of arrest, majorly redeemed it.
If states generally don't limit the potency of distilled spirits, why is such a safeguard necessary for a much less hazardous product?
Neuropsychopharmacologist Carl Hart says most of what the public knows about drugs is both scary and wrong.
Maybe this year it will pass the Senate too.
Defying authoritarian laws helps to preserve freedom and to undermine prohibitions.
Certain politicians and pundits are living in a 1930s fantasy world.
Federal law doesn't prohibit financial institutions from offering banking service to dispensaries and growers, but the added reporting requirements and threat of federal scrutiny keeps many banks away.
Democrats, now in control of both chambers of Congress, say they will push ahead with marijuana reform with or without the support of the White House.
Poll found that 78 percent of Democrats, 62 percent of Republicans, and 67 percent of independents favor legalization, as do majorities of every age demographic.
The data do not support the conventional wisdom that pain pill prescriptions are driving drug-related fatalities.
So many people are leaving the state that it will soon lose a congressional seat.
Three recently approved plans show what politicians have learned (or failed to learn) since Colorado became the first state to allow recreational use.
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Joe Biden, meanwhile, supports continued national prohibition, maintaining an untenable conflict between state and federal laws.
The law is surprisingly permissive in some ways, but it includes high taxes and other provisions that hurt consumers.
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But forthcoming legislation in the Senate could force Biden's hand.
A compromise is now circulating that would establish a market but also allow growing at home.
New Mexico could be the 16th state to legalize pot, while Texas considers tinkering with its onerous penalties and Pennsylvania continues to arrest cannabis consumers.
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Iowa smoke shop owners say the tax would be "a ban without being an outright ban."
Legalizing interstate sales and allowing outdoor growing would reduce the cannabis industry's energy consumption.
Uruguay legalized recreational marijuana in 2013, followed by Canada five years later. Two more countries will soon join their ranks.
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Two studies published in November found that legalization has not been associated with increases in adolescent marijuana use or addiction.
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Half a century ago, Congress declared that there is no legitimate use for psilocybin. State and local governments are finally challenging that judgment.
After getting a ballot initiative voided, she says she’ll also resist legislators attempting to legalize marijuana.
In 2014, Reason reported on the misbehavior of Rod Ponton, who has suddenly risen to internet stardom after being unable to turn off an adorable filter during an online legal case.
Voters approved it, but the governor resisted. A court came down on her side.
His new book, Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear, is a provocative manifesto for legalizing all drugs.
Contemporary psychonauts are looking for insight, relief, fun, escape, and a million other things to make their lives more interesting and bearable.
The state used civil asset forfeiture to seize Tyson Timbs' car in 2013. His nightmare hasn't ended.
If passed, the bill would allow for legal possession by July 1.
We can’t eliminate the virus, but we can reduce its harm to our lives and livelihoods.
The new administration nixes a change that would have allowed more physicians to prescribe buprenorphine.
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The new documentary hammers home the senselessness of the war on drugs.
Alex Winter's new film celebrates the Rock Hall of Famer's individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and entrepreneurship.