Politics

Despite bipartisan congressional pleas, Marc Fogel, a U.S. citizen imprisoned in Russia for possessing medical marijuana obtained as a registered patient in Pennsylvania, was not included in a recent high-profile prisoner swap. Fogel, who used cannabis as an alternative...

Some fightin’ words are coming from the DOJ when it comes to judgments on marijuana-users. But first, some context. Last month, the Supreme Court decided that the federal government had a right to limit use of guns for people with...

Harris’ record as a prosecutor for San Francisco has become an issue that Donald Trump is trying to capitalize on. On Monday, Trump went on the Ingraham Angle on Fox News to try out the new attack. “She was a...

After a report from the LA Times that shed light on the poor testing discipline across the state, the Department of Cannabis Control has begun to take its job a little more seriously. The latest example of this is...

Kamala Harris, the very likely Democratic nominee for president in November, has had a rollercoaster ride relationship with the Democratic party. She began her career as the Attorney General for California, and wrote a book called “Smart on Crime.”...

The period in which the public can comment on the potential rescheduling of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III ended Monday night at midnight, and the public certainly weighed in, with a total of 42,925 comments. Headset, a cannabis...

Winner for best name for a bill, the DOOBIE Act is getting a vote in a Senate committee. The bill would limit any federal agent’s ability to use past use of marijuana of a potential employee to determine whether...

Trump has chosen J.D. Vance to be his running mate. Vance is very new to public office, having just got elected to the Senate in 2022. But that’s probably exactly what is alluring to Trump in the first place:...

What a wild, unprecedented road we’re facing with this November election. Ever since the debate two weeks ago, calls for Biden to step down have not decreased. While we haven’t yet reached a point of a rolling boil, the...

As Hawaii debates the legalization of cannabis, West Hawaii traffic enforcement unit commander Sergeant Thomas Koyanagi has taken a proactive approach to prepare for potential challenges. Observing an increase in traffic crashes in states that have legalized marijuana, Sgt....