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  • Texas: As Many Focus on the Midterms, Pro-Cannabis Energy Builds Around 2019

    Oct 26, 2018, 6:50 am By Jeremy Borden
    Texas is often painted with a broad brush by those who believe the nation’s second most populous state is an intractably conservative, deep red stronghold where cannabis law reform can only go so far. The coming months will determine whether that camp can be…
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  • When Oregon Blew It

    Oct 22, 2018, 6:50 am By Melissa Matthewson
    Aldo Leopold, the great conservationist and writer, once wrote, “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” I wonder what he would have to say about the way…
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  • Mexico Inches Toward Legal Cannabis

    Oct 9, 2018, 6:50 am By juliab
    North America seems to be marching toward an end to prohibition. In Canada, legal cannabis sales will begin next week. And though the US federal government still considers cannabis a Schedule I drug with no medical value, nine states have legalized adult use,…
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  • Who Gets Busted at the Border for Cannabis? Frequently, US Citizens with Small Stashes

    Oct 8, 2018, 6:50 am By Nushin Rashidian
    Since President Donald Trump launched his election campaign in 2015 he has repeatedly raised concerns about drugs from Mexico flowing into the United States, even going so far as to make drug smuggling a central pillar of his argument for increased border…
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  • An Anti-Cannabis Crusader Ramps Up for the Midterms—and Beyond

    Oct 3, 2018, 6:50 am By isaacf
    Cannabis has had a good run lately. Ten states have legalized since 2012, half of which did so in the last two years, and more than thirty states have allowed some form of medical use. Bills like the STATES Act, a measure that would allow states to implement…
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  • Three Competing Medical Cannabis Initiatives Debated in Missouri

    Sep 27, 2018, 6:50 am By jeremyborden1
    Only one representative from the three competing Missouri ballot initiative campaigns for medical cannabis showed up at a University of Missouri forum Wednesday night, and he used the opportunity to hammer one of the competing campaigns, calling it a play for…
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  • Effort to Oust Texas Rep. Pete Sessions Hampered by Fundraising Shortfall

    Sep 26, 2018, 6:50 am By jeremyborden1
    Cannabis business interests in Texas are trying to make a late push to unseat Rep. Pete Sessions, one of the biggest targets of Democrats nationally, and a bitter foe of pro-cannabis advocates. But the group won’t have the resources they expected after a…
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  • Trump, Former World Leaders, Diverge on Solutions to the Global Drug Problem

    Sep 25, 2018, 6:50 am By juliab
    Yesterday morning, representatives from dozens of countries gathered at the United Nations General Assembly in New York for the US-led “Global Call to Action on the World Drug Problem.” UN Ambassador Nikki Haley opened the event by thanking the 130…
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  • New York’s Cannabis Legalization Workgroup Comes to Manhattan

    Sep 21, 2018, 6:50 am By isaacf
    Manhattanites gathered last night to discuss New York’s creation of a legal adult-use cannabis market. It was the fourth Regulated Marijuana Listening Session. Around 150 people filled the auditorium to hear two hours of public comment, the majority of which…
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  • California Begins Process of Creating Cannabis Appellations

    10:23am By Nushin Rashidian
    Cannabis Wire is publishing this excerpt as part of our partnership with the Mendocino Voice, an online news service covering Mendocino County and the North Coast of California, including the cannabis industry. By Kate B. Maxwell UKIAH, CA, 9/19/11 — It’s…
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  • Is Your Data Safe When You Purchase Legal Cannabis?

    Wed 6:50am By juliab
    The cannabis user privacy debate has reached California, the nation’s most populous state. A bill is sitting on California governor Jerry Brown’s desk would prohibit retail cannabis shops from selling customer data to third-party vendors without the…
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  • The Cannabis Factor in Michigan’s Governor’s Race

    Sep 17, 2018, 6:50 am By jeremyborden1
    On Election Day, Michigan voters could pass cannabis legalization — but they could also elect a longtime anti-cannabis crusader as the state’s next governor. Democrat Gretchen Whitmer has been a supporter of legalization while serving in the state Senate,…
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  • A ‘Historic Moment’ in House Judiciary Hearing on Cannabis, Veterans, and Research

    Sep 14, 2018, 6:50 am By jeremyborden1
    The House vote on the Medical Cannabis Research Act of 2018, or H.R. 5634, on Thursday held significant symbolic weight: here was a Republican Congress with a staunchly conservative, law-and-order committee chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, advancing a…
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  • Advocates Expect Equity, Expungement, and Micro-businesses in New Jersey Legalization Bill

    Sep 13, 2018, 6:50 am By jeremyborden1
    New Jersey’s draft legalization bill could drop any day now. Ahead of that release, Cannabis Wire talked with Meagan Glaser, the New Jersey deputy state director for Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), who eight years ago helped lead a group that pushed for New…
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  • The Prisoners Left Behind

    Sep 7, 2018, 6:50 am By Nushin Rashidian
    The last full day of Barack Obama’s presidency sent years of hopes crashing down for John Richard Knock. On January 19, 2017, Knock sat in his federal prison cell in the middle of Pennsylvania, waiting for a letter. He listened to a small radio that played…
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  • Medical Cannabis in Utah? Mormon Church Suddenly Says No

    Aug 31, 2018, 6:50 am By Nushin Rashidian
    SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — Eight weeks before election day, opposition to a citizen-led ballot initiative to legalize medical cannabis has taken a significant religious turn—one that could change the outcome on the vote come November: Utah’s predominant…
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  • Cannabis in the NY Governor’s Race: Big Donations and a Big Debate

    Aug 29, 2018, 5:47 pm By isaacf
    Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon, both running to be governor of New York, will go head-to-head tonight at Hofstra University on Long Island in their first and only debate of the primary election. The two Democrats hold significantly different positions on…
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  • Ballot Initiative Could Determine Fate of Colorado’s Hemp Industry

    Aug 28, 2018, 6:50 am By jeremyborden1
    Voters will decide on a little-noticed ballot initiative in Colorado on Election Day that could determine whether the state’s burgeoning hemp crop continues to lead the pack, or is curbed as other states press ahead. It’s an unusual situation: Coloradans…
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  • Jury Trial Set for Closely Watched Anti-Cannabis Case in Colorado

    Aug 24, 2018, 6:50 am By jeremyborden1
    Two key parts of a closely-watched lawsuit in the cannabis industry were sent by a federal judge to a Colorado jury earlier this month. Now, major decisions hang in the balance that could determine the viability of a creative anti-cannabis legal strategy: can…
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  • Conservative North Dakota Might Be the Next State to Legalize Cannabis

    Aug 14, 2018, 6:50 am By jeremyborden1
    Voters in North Dakota will join those in Michigan this November to decide on a legalization ballot question. If passed, the initiative would legalize adult-use cannabis and, for many offenders, automatically expunge past cannabis-related convictions.…
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