Politics

(This is an abridged version of a story that appears at MJBizDaily.com.) As Oregon cannabis prices continue to sink to new lows amid a product glut, outdoor marijuana growers are turning their sights to MJ’s cousin: hemp. The pivot allows growers...

by Kevin Mahmalji, NORML Outreach DirectorSeptember 10, 2018 As more and more states decide to legalize and regulate marijuana, businesses outside of America’s new billion dollar marijuana industry around the country are doing their best to navigate the murky waters...

by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director September 7, 2018 Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez at a press conference today announced his intent to vacate over ten thousand low-level marijuana convictions. Though state lawmakers decriminalized minor marijuana possession offenses in 1977, possessing...

Utah approved new hemp rules to allow production to begin with the next growing season – and while the regulations allow for cannabinoid extraction, adding CBD to foods is a strict no-go. The state plans to charge hemp farmers $500 for...

Cannabis use is increasing across the United States of America at a rapid pace. According to a new poll from the journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence, one specific group that is seeing increased rates of cannabis consumption are...

Two companies are in a legal tussle over what destroyed a 600-acre hemp farming joint venture in Colorado – a conflict that industry experts say could be the first of many as eager investors and firms try to cash in...

by Dan Viets, Executive Director, Missouri NORMLSeptember 6, 2018 Yesterday morning Jeff Mizanskey registered to vote! For the first time in 24 years, after his release from parole late last week, Jeff Mizanskey, an honorably discharged veteran of the United States...

The state panel that will award Virginia’s first five CBD-only medical marijuana business licenses will keep the application review process confidential.Virginia Board of Pharmacy chair Rafael Saenz announced Tuesday that the 51 applications would be considered in closed session,...

by NORMLSeptember 5, 2018 Washington, DC: Senators Bill Nelson (D-FL) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) today introduced legislation, The Veterans Medical Marijuana Safe Harbor Act, to expand and facilitate medical cannabis access to military veterans suffering from chronic pain, PTSD, and other...

by NORML September 5, 2018 The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) is pleased to endorse Missouri’s Amendment 2, which permits patients, at the discretion of a physician, to cultivate limited quantities of marijuana or to obtain cannabis and...