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As California moves toward completely decriminalizing our multibillion-dollar marijuana economy, one cannot help but notice that many of the regulations are being written of wealthy white people, by wealthy white people, and for wealthy white people. This is sadly not surprising, but it is...

Starting Wednesday (June 22), simple possession of marijuana in New Orleans will carry far less consequences for repeat offenders. Police have been able since 2010 to issue a court summons to someone caught for the first time when the city first eased its drug laws. Now that option will extend...

New York Assembly members push forward plan to redress discriminatory harms of cannabis prohibition. The New York State Assembly passed a bill Thursday, June 16, that will seal criminal records of people who have been arrested for simple marijuana possession. The bipartisan vote, at 99 in...

Harrisburg - Getting caught with a small amount of marijuana or marijuana paraphernalia in Harrisburg would cost you less under a proposal by city council members discussed Wednesday night. Councilman Cornelius Johnson released details of the proposal at a council legislative session that...

Health Minister Jane Philpott stood before the United Nations last month and solemnly vowed that, by the spring of next year, marijuana use would be legal and tightly regulated in Canada. Notably, she said: " We know it is impossible to arrest our way out of this problem." And yet, if the...

The federal government's promise to begin the process of legalizing cannabis in 2017 is amplifying calls from lawyers and advocates for an end to arrests and prosecutions for some weed-related crimes that have "clogged up the system" and left tens of thousands of Canadians with a criminal...

In the heady days following his election victory, Justin Trudeau actively encouraged his caucus members to rock the boat. "Regardless of party demands, and the partisanship that will continue to exist in this House ... your one job, that you cannot ever forget, is to be a strong voice in...

The New Orleans City Council took up a measure Thursday dealing with the city's marijuana ordinance. The ordinance allows for a summons to be issued for simple marijuana possession in lieu of jail time. The council voted to approve the ordinance unanimously. A similar law has been in...

Cannabliss, the Florida-based wholesale distributor of medical and legal recreational marijuana products says that a law which decriminalizes possession of up to one ounce of marijuana in the US state of Delaware has been well-received. Marijuana decriminalization legislation passed in June...

Senator Harold Jones II has introduced a law to eliminate felony marijuana possession laws in Georgia. Jones (D-Augusta) pre-filed Senate Bill 254 to eliminate felony marijuana possession in Georgia. Jones said his bill would not legalize the possession or selling of narcotics and that it would...

Delaware has officially decriminalized possession by adults of small amounts of marijuana. A decriminalization law signed in June by Gov. Jack Markell took effect early Friday morning. The law makes possession by an adult of a "personal use" quantity of marijuana, defined as an ounce or less...