Article by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post A new Gallup poll released Wednesday shows 60 percent of American adults now say that marijuana should be legal, the highest level of support in nearly a half-century of polling on the question. The Gallup poll tracks closely with numbers from the Pew Research Centerreleased last week showing 57 percent support for legalization. When Gallup first ...

Article by Nick Schou, OC Weekly Kristoffer Lewandowski doesn’t exactly fit the profile of a pot baron. A veteran of three tours of duty with the U.S. Marines, including stints in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Laguna Niguel resident divides his time between architecture classes at Saddleback College and helping his wife, Whitney, raise their three young sons. But thanks to ...

Article by Emily Gray Brosious, Extract Arizona residents who support a ballot measure to legalize marijuana for adult use are calling to boycott Scottsdale-based Discount Tire Company after its billionaire owner, Bruce Halle, gave $1 million to help prevent the measure from passing, Phoenix New Timesreports. Cannabis activists with groups such as MomForce AZ and Safer Arizona were among the first ...

Article by New Cannabis Ventures London, UK, October 19 2016: GW Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: GWPH, AIM: GWP, “GW” or “the Company”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing novel therapeutics from its proprietary cannabinoid product platform, today announced the Company’s intention to cancel the admission of its 0.1 pence ordinary shares (Ordinary Shares) to trading on AIM on ...

Article by Laurel Andrews, Adn.com An Anchorage elementary school issued an apology Tuesday after an automated phone message the night before urged parents to attend a city Assembly meeting and voice opposition to marijuana retail stores on the agenda. That Monday evening message from Campbell Elementary School should never have gone out, due to its “partisan” nature, said Anchorage School District spokesperson Heidi Embley. The message was sent ...

Article by Will Houston, Eureka Times-Standard For Matt Kurth, the essentials of life have come through his love of the outdoors and organic gardening. And cannabis. When he tried to blend two of these passions and grow marijuana one year, he found that he had his work cut out for him. “I wanted to be a grower and then I ...

Article by The News Service of Florida The Florida Democratic Party has spent $200,000 during the past month to back a proposed constitutional amendment that would broadly legalize medical marijuana, according to records posted on the state Division of Elections website. The latest reported contribution, $50,000, was made on Oct. 7, while contributions of $100,000 and $50,000 were made in ...

Article by Mike Adams, High Times WikiLeaks’ latest exposure of political emails shows the staff behind Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign made it a point to brief her on the issue of marijuana prior to a debate. It also shows that a Clinton administration is not likely to make any significant changes to marijuana policy at the federal level. A preparatory ...

Article by Emily Gray Brosious, Extract Ahead of the third and final presidential debate on Wednesday, Oct. 19, in Las Vegas, Republican nominee Donald Trump said Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton should be drug tested before coming on stage, suggesting she used drugs before the last debate in St. Louis, which Donald himself sniffled suspiciously throughout. … Donald Trump went on ...

Article by Joshua Miller, Boston Globe Opponents of legalizing marijuana in Massachusetts are launching their first television advertisement Tuesday, a powerful 30-second spot that imagines an almost dystopian neighborhood overrun by pot shops and stoners. In the ad, a mother drives her daughter through a familiar suburban scene of strip malls, passing one marijuana store after another, signs alighted with ...