There are many reasons for a cannabis detox. Maybe you just got hired as an FBI agent and they’re about to piss test you. Maybe you’re giving up all the THC in your system for lent. Maybe you’re in jail praying you can piss all that drug residue out of your body before someone asks […]
According to the foremost authority on federal drug laws, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, cannabis legalization causes violence. The former senator has said, without providing data, that “Experts are telling me there’s more violence around marijuana than one would think and there’s big money involved.” Sessions’ explanation for this violence is a somewhat nonsensical one, saying […]
The newest attempt by Congress to reschedule marijuana is a risky gambit. Where most bills on the topic have suggested moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule II on the list of federally controlled substances, a new bipartisan would make like a cheat code and skip a level straight to Schedule III. Schedule III controlled […]
Canada is beating America to the weed legalization party. The U.S.’s neighbor to the north is set to go full legal as of July 1, 2018, according to the CBC, a state-founded, publicly-funded impartial news outlet out of Canada (guess not putting people in jail for weed isn’t the only thing the Canucks are […]
For a very brief period Wednesday morning, the TSA made history and claimed that it was cool for you to bring your medical marijuana on a flight, either in checked or carry on bags. The announcement was made on the TSA’s website. This change in policy was not only momentous for the TSA. This was […]
The Trump White House has sent the DEA to fetch it some info on Colorado’s cannabis crimes. That’s according to an email from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Denver field office to senior assistant attorney general Michael Melito, and reported on by the Denver Post. The email requests that the state of Colorado hand over case […]
Who knew it could be so easy to legalize medical cannabis? The Argentine Senate just passed a law to legalize the medical treatment across the nation. Advocates of the medical marijuana pulled off the trick in less than two years, which must kind of sting for MMJ-proponents in America, where the fight has been going […]
Here’s a paradox for you. One of the biggest music festivals in America begins in just a couple of weeks (the kind of thing where thousands of people are obviously going to want to smoke weed at) and it’s in a state that has legalized the recreational use of weed. But you’re not allowed to […]
The DEA may be cracking down on interstate cannabis trafficking, but someone else is cracking down on the down-crackers. The big uncle cracker in question here is the Office of the Inspector General, a division of the Department of Justice. It said Wednesday that the Drug Enforcement Administration has taken much too much liberty with […]
Hello, America. You’ve got a new Drug Czar and his name is Richard Baum. While the title “drug czar” conjures (for us at least) images of a heroin cartel leader lounging by the olympic-sized swimming pool of their vast, remote Oaxaca estate, in fact Richard Baum is a seasoned technocrat with decades of experience in […]
