This tremendous growth of the cannabis industry comes despite immense obstacles stemming from the plant’s legal status, social stigma around marijuana usage, and other difficulties such as the licensing process and few options for financiers.
Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker, & Ron Wyden introduced the long-awaited federal legalization Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) called for President Joe Biden to keep his campaign promise to expunge federal marijuana records. Doing so would bring immediate justice and relief to thousands of Americans. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden stated that “no one should be in jail because of cannabis use.” In […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Dave Joyce introduced a bill to change federal cannabis policy to incentivize expunging marijuana convictions.
Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act. Under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) of 1970, the Attorney General can remove a substance from the CSA by working with the Secretary of Health […]
With the New Jersey political primary election tomorrow, the race to be the Democratic nominee in the Second Congressional District heated up. American cannabis legalization might be a big issue. Competitive New Jersey Political Primary Governor Phil Murphy and some of his progressive allies endorsed the cannabis prohibitionist Amy Kennedy recently in the New Jersey […]
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s canceling the Cole Memo, allowing the state legal cannabis markets to function, has backfired greatly. Many are unhappy with it. Sessions basically declared war on the cannabis industry when he rescinded an Obama-era directive known as the Cole Memo. In essence, the memo declared that federal prosecutions for cannabis […]
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) came out swinging against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Session’s decision to rescind the Cole memo, which allows states to regulate cannabis. It sent the cannabis industry into confusion.
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