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Yet another attempt has failed to pass legislation shielding banks that provide services to marijuana-related businesses from regulatory action or other penalties. Late last week, the US House of Representatives appeared likely to approve an amendment to the House Financial Services and General...

Fans of financial legitimacy for pot businesses, rejoice! The Senate Appropriations Committee passed an amendment to the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill today that would provide robust protection to financial institutions that opt to work with the cannabis industry...

Growing up, Lamine Zarrad learned the hard way what it's like to be a disenfranchised outsider. Born in Azerbaijan, Zarrad and his parents fled ethnic conflict in the former Soviet republic in the 1990s and ended up living in a freezing former lithium processing factory in Moscow. Surrounded by...

One of legal marijuana's biggest hurdles will be discussed this morning as a federal judge considers a Colorado credit union's arguments for allowing marijuana banking services. Fourth Corner Credit Union, which was "constructed from the ground up to serve the interests of the legalized cannabis...

Yes, the movement to end repression of nature extends across all borders and we are all aligned to promote an end to the madness of so many decades. It is so encouraging to see pockets of freedom emerge and spread, but none should become complacent until the mindless oppression against a plant...