Politics

by Kevin Mahmalji, NORML Outreach Director December 17, 2018 Voters in Nebraska may have an opportunity to legalize access to medical marijuana for qualified patients in 2020. With the formation of Nebraskans for Sensible Marijuana Laws, led by Nebraska State...

Cannabis entrepreneurs long frustrated by barriers to social consumption of their products are finding that CBD is a faster way to getting their products in front of consumers. Where marijuana entrepreneurs have been plagued by delays or outright hostility from...

Home to oil drillers and wheat farmers for generations, Oklahoma’s land may be hosting a whole new industry thanks to recently enacted law. Oklahoma State Question 788 (SQ 788), which was approved by voters on June 26, 2018, has...

by Kevin Mahmalji, NORML Outreach DirectorDecember 16, 2018 Following the lead of other major cities and counties in states that have legalized adult-use marijuana such as San Francisco and San Diego in California and Seattle and Pierce County in Washington,...

Hemp legalization was tucked into the 2018 farm bill, a massive piece of legislation that also addresses issues such as nutrition, conservation, trade, energy and forestry. The bill received strong bipartisan support, and is now headed to President Donald Trump's...

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska voters may get the chance to decide a medical cannabis ballot measure in 2020 if lawmakers don’t approve one in the session that starts in January 2019. State Sens. Anna Wishart and Adam Morfeld, both of...

Hemp legalization was tucked into the 2018 farm bill, a massive piece of legislation that also addresses issues such as nutrition, conservation, trade, energy and forestry. The bill received strong bipartisan support, and is now headed to President Donald Trump's...

by Norm Kent, NORML Board of DirectorsDecember 15, 2018 Writing from Key West last week, where I addressed the 35thannual legal conference of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, I was fishing not only for Blue Marlin,...

In the face of the likely legalization of recreational cannabis in New York, a panel of experts from the state’s farming sector discussed what would help guarantee small farmers to get their fair share of the green rush. The Dec....

The Roll-Up features co-hosts Bruce Barcott, Ben Adlin, and Alyssa Yeoman in a Friday morning roundtable about the week’s top cannabis news. Leafly Podcast The Roll-Up #64: Hemp for Victory! This week: Congress passes the farm bill and legalizes hemp (but maybe not...