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Phoenix - A trial judge today ordered a change in how Secretary of State Michele Reagan is describing to voters the effects of a measure to legalize marijuana. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge James Blomo rejected arguments that Reagan was factually correct when she said that the drug...

Convictions in Rotorua for cannabis possession have fallen more than 66 per cent in the last six years - adding fuel to nationwide calls for government action on drug law reform. Ministry of Justice figures released under the Official Information Act to the Rotorua Daily Post reveal the...

In mid-2016, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) quietly announced it would be issuing an updated classification for marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act. Under the law, drugs like cannabis, methamphetamine, cocaine, and other substances are organized by how addictive they are, and how...

Boston - Marijuana is "widely available" in Massachusetts due to decriminalization but there's little regulation of the drug, Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Thursday, explaining why she is open to supporting legalization. "Massachusetts is in a very difficult position, because we have...

The war on cannabis has been lost, and the Northern Territory should permit its residents to possess a legal amount of the drug, the 1Territory party says. The party was recently established by disaffected Country Liberals members and it is running candidates in 13 of the NT's 25 Legislative...

Geoffrey Guy stood out when he began attending conferences of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws in Washington, DC, in the mid to late 1990s. The stout British gentleman, dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, was hard to miss among the other attendees dressed in tie-dye...

Robins Air Force Base, Ga - As state recreational and medical marijuana laws change throughout the country, Air Force Reserve Command officials remind reservists that any marijuana use or possession by uniformed service members is still illegal under federal law. And the consequences for...

Rick Doblin, who as head of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has been trying for years to jump through the hoops required to get marijuana approved as a medicine, says the Drug Enforcement Administration's new willingness to license more than one producer of...

Rick Doblin, who as head of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) has been trying for years to jump through the hoops required to get marijuana approved as a medicine, says the Drug Enforcement Administration's new willingness to license more than one producer of...

Jeffersonville - This Saturday, Jeffersonville's City Hall will be the backdrop for people from Clark County and beyond to discuss the legalization of marijuana in Indiana. Members of the Higher Fellowship, the outreach branch of the Higher Society of Indiana Inc., is working with local...

On the more difficult issues in national life, the politicians are often the last ones to act. They wait for a decisive break in public opinion before venturing a change. Sometimes not even such a swing will do it. So it seems to be going with any hint of reform to the laws on cannabis. By...

A Hamilton mother says her daughter's medical cannabis use is no longer taboo, with the drug receiving a green thumbs-up according to a recent survey. Paige Gallien was prescribed Sativex, a medicinal cannabis sprayed via the mouth, two years ago. The 13-year-old has Dravet syndrome, a...

A Hamilton mother says her daughter's medical cannabis use is no longer taboo, with the drug receiving a green thumbs-up according to a recent survey. Paige Gallien was prescribed Sativex, a medicinal cannabis sprayed via the mouth, two years ago. The 13-year-old has Dravet syndrome, a...

Does more social damage result from drinking alcohol or using illegal drugs? Could trying marijuana actually lead to stronger drug use? Utilizing data from four decades of U.S. government drug use surveys, an extensive and easy-to-use collection of charts has just been created to answer these...

For the second time in three years, Floridians will go to the polls in November and weigh in on a proposed state constitutional amendment that, if passed, would legalize medical marijuana. A similar proposal failed in 2014 - by less than 3 percentage points - amid fears the amendment's language...

For the second time in three years, Floridians will go to the polls in November and weigh in on a proposed state constitutional amendment that, if passed, would legalize medical marijuana. A similar proposal failed in 2014 - by less than 3 percentage points - amid fears the amendment's...

Driving impaired is driving impaired - it doesn't matter what substance a person's on, but Calgary police and their overseeing commission want to be ready when one in particular is legalized. This weekend in Ottawa, at a Canadian Association of Police Governance Conference, the Calgary Police...

Fatigued, frequently ill and experiencing ever-changing symptoms, Sue Curry has spent years living with a debilitating illness. "It's like having the flu, a concussion, multiple sclerosis," she said. Her illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME), is poorly...

Marc Mauer has this timely and effective new commentary in The Hill headlined "Can Marijuana reform end mass incarceration?". Any regular reader of this blog knows that the only simple and accurate answer to this question is "no," but the commentary provides a fuller accounting of some reasons...

There should be a lot more marijuana available for drug companies and researchers now that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has opened up cultivation of the drug to more than one facility. The agency didn't budge from its classification of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, which puts the...