Tag: cannabis
Drug Policy Reform in Missouri: City-Level Progress, Strong Headwinds
A Missouri mayor recently announced a plan to pardon people with marijuana and psilocybin ...
Why Historic House Marijuana Legalization Vote Has Been Pushed Back
An historic House of Representatives vote on a federal marijuana legalization bill, orginally slated ...
A Record Means Discrimination—But National Expungement Week Is Here
For Mauro Melgar, record expungement is not just an abstract policy, it’s something that ...
As New Jersey Cops Arrest 100 People Daily for Marijuana, Will the State Legalize?
Will New Jersey become next state to fully legalize marijuana? It’s one of four ...
Follow the Money: Why Marijuana Research Tells Us the Same Old Story
Scientific research enriches minds but drains wallets. In the US and globally, public and ...
What Marijuana Legalization Would Mean for Criminal Justice in Arizona
Marijuana legalization is headed to the ballot in Arizona this November. If successful, the ...
Drive to Free Black Woman With Marijuana Life Sentence Exposes “Habitual Criminal” Laws
“Give a mother the chance to hold her child again.” So reads a petition, ...
Black Residents Subject to 97 Percent of Marijuana Arrests, Citations in Albany
While the state of New York decriminalized marijuana possession for personal use in 2019, ...
Eight in 10 Democrats Want Marijuana Legalization. Why Doesn’t the Party?
Seventy-eight percent of Democrat voters want it. Nearly all of the Democratic presidential candidates ...
Californian Cannabis Tax Revenues Are Used to Boost Police Budgets
How are tax revenues from legal marijuana being spent in California, the nation’s largest ...
