A group of bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act in the House and Senate on Wednesday, after the legislation designed to free up banking services for the cannabis industry stalled in last year’s Congress. …
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‘Monumental’: Texas House Passes Cannabis Decriminalization Bill, Penalty Reduction And Expungement
Texas’s House of Representatives passed a bill to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of cannabis on Wednesday in a voice vote. The bill still requires a second reading, which is a formality, before heading to the Senate for further considera…
A Cannabis Museum Focused On The Drug Wars Wants To Change Hearts And Minds
When April Arrasate got a license to open a recreational cannabis dispensary in Boston, it followed a successful stint of her being a producer of medical marijuana in Connecticut. There would be a difference with her new business: she wanted it to have…
‘Joint’ Venture: Ben From Ben & Jerry’s Starts Pot Nonprofit
One of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s has gone from ice cream to marijuana with a social mission. One of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s has gone from ice cream to ‘blunts,’ promising a line of marijuana products with a social mission. Ben C…
N.W.T.-Grown Cannabis Weeks Away From Hitting Shelves
Boreal Cultivation is territory’s first licensed commercial cannabis producer. Jordan Harker has been dreaming about growing cannabis for more than 30 years. He recently found an old notebook from when he was 15 or 16 years old, with sketches of a secr…
How Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Pushed Through Asia’s First Cannabis Legalization
Until last summer, Thailand had some of the world’s harshest drug laws, with possession of cannabis then punishable by up to 15 years in prison. But on June 9, marijuana was decriminalized and a resurgent cannabis culture has seen dispensaries popping …
Family Of Singaporean On Death Row For Cannabis Pleads For Clemency
The family of a Singaporean man due to be hanged next week over a kilogram of cannabis pleaded for clemency from the authorities Sunday and urged a retrial. Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was sentenced to death in 2018 for conspiring to smuggle the drugs and t…
“Cannabis Users Win the Drug War!”
CANNABIS CULTURE – On 20 April, the Alliance for Rights Oriented Drug Policies (AROD) offered the Norwegian Director of Prosecutions 100 grams of cannabis to trigger the legal system, but authority wanted no problem. Instead, cannabis was freely distri…
RIP Dr Robert Melamede
CANNABIS CULTURE – Sad news, Program Director of the Phoenix Tears Foundation and a giant in the field of cannabis research, Dr Robert Melamede has died. According to a crowd funding campaign organized by family members, Melamede suffered a stroke on M…
Locked Up For Cannabis, Locked Out Of Work
Recreational use is legal in Illinois, but the state still has prisoners incarcerated for cannabis-related offenses, and those convictions prevent future work in the cannabis industry. raig Cesal was sentenced to life in prison for a cannabis offense b…