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Oregon's leading marijuana advocate in Congress, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, has formed a political action committee aimed at unseating anti-marijuana lawmakers. The Portland Democrat's Cannabis Fund is one in a growing suite of similar committees paying to promote weed-friendly candidates and...

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) has been selling weed for years. Actually, let's rephrase: Blumenauer, the bespectacled, bow tie-clad, bicycle-riding lawmaker whose district covers much of ― where else ― Portland, has been one of America's most outspoken public officials on liberalizing America's...

The medical marijuana industry in Maryland and the District gained a bit more security this week after Congress' spending bill blocked funding from going toward federal enforcement against those operations. Advocates of legal cannabis across the U.S. worried about where Attorney General Jeff...

Washington, D.C. - Marijuana legalization proponents expected a rocky road during the Trump administration, and in the past week they have hit two large bumps. White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters last week that there was a concern in the administration about "encouraging...

Washington, D.C. - Two members of Congress from both sides of the political aisle are joining forces to create the Cannabis Caucus. Reps. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., and Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., are creating a caucus in hopes of improving the odds to passing federal marijuana reform bills...

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., hosted an Industrial Hemp Expo Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol, bringing together leading policymakers and entrepreneurs in the movement to restore industrial hemp to U.S. agriculture...