Article by Linn Washington Jr, Alternet A vivid example of value from decriminalization of possessing small amounts of marijuana occurred at the Philadelphia airport recently, a few days after the release of a report from two prominent organizations that called for the national decriminalization of personal use/possession of marijuana and other illicit drugs. This example, interestingly, occurred on the day ...

Article by Scott Schwebke, Orange County Register via The Cannabist The city will pay a Santa Ana marijuana dispensary $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit in connection with a controversial raid last year where police officers were caught on hidden video eating snacks and making disparaging remarks about a handicapped woman. As part of the settlement agreement finalized earlier this ...

Article by News 5 Online On Thursday morning (Oct. 27) the Arkansas Supreme Court disqualified a medical marijuana proposal that will appear on the ballot in the November Election, ruling that it failed to receive enough qualified signatures. The court ruled the issue failed to get the required 67,887 signatures to put the measure on the ballot, after disqualifying more than 12,000 signatures, ...

Article by Eric Boehm, Reason Legal marijuana will poison children and cause more Arizonans to die in car crashes, according to scary television and online ads running across the state in advance of Election Day. “Edibles that look like candy, marketed to kids,” warns one ad, with a voiceover meant to sound like a concerned mother. Other spots feature school ...

Article by Jim O’Sullivan, Boston Globe The Boston Archdiocese is pouring $850,000 into a last-minute effort to defeat a state ballot measure to legalize marijuana, calling increased drug use a threat to the Catholic Church’s health and social-service programs. The church’s contribution represents about a 50 percent increase over what the antimarijuana Campaign for a Safe and Healthy Massachusetts has ...

Article by Matt Murphy, Wyoming Tribune Eagle via Casper Star Tribute More Wyoming residents support legalizing marijuana now than two years ago, according to a survey released earlier this week. Further, most survey respondents also favor nixing jail time for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Support for medical marijuana (with a doctor’s prescription) increased from 74 percent in 2014 ...

Article by Meredith Griffiths, ABC Australia Growing cannabis legally will be a step closer on Sunday when federal legislation comes into effect allowing the drug to be grown for medicinal purposes. Key points: Government accepting applications from Monday for licenses to grow cannabis Applicants will have to demonstrate their proposed growing site is secure Concerns that if system becomes too ...

Article by Trevor Hughes, USA Today Nearly 60 million Americans may wake up Nov. 9 to find voters in their states have abolished long-standing marijuana prohibitions, a three-fold expansion for legal cannabis across the country. Another 24 million Americans could find themselves in states with newly legal medical marijuana use, a smaller but still significant expansion of legalized pot around ...

Article by Will Houston, Eureka Times-Standard How recreational marijuana legalization would impact small farmers in Humboldt County will mostly depend on the actions of the local industry, according to a Humboldt State University panel discussion Wednesday. Fred Krissman, a research associate with the HSU Anthropology Department and scholar in the university’s Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research (HIIMR), said marijuana ...

Article by New Cannabis Ventures CannaKorp CEO James Winokur presented his company to CNBC Power Pitch and earned an “all in” from the three panelists, which included Nir Liberboim of Uprise Ventures, Kelly Keenan Trumpbour of See Jane Invest and Patrick Rea of Canopy Boulder. In the one-minute pitch, Winokur described the company’s initial product, CannaCloud, which vaporizers cannabis that ...