by adminTorusBrand | Apr 16, 2018 | Politics
The bill proposes legalizing hemp by removing the sustainable crop from the Controlled Substances Act, and would establish it as an agriculture commodity. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, last week introduced a bill to legalize the cultivation of...
by adminTorusBrand | Apr 16, 2018 | Politics
Once “unalterably opposed” to marijuana legalization, the former speaker of the House now supports major cannabis reform and has joined the advisory board of a marijuana company. John A. Boehner, a Republican leader and the speaker of the House from 2011 to 2015, has...
by adminTorusBrand | Apr 10, 2018 | Politics
A new memo by the U.S. Attorney General urges federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in large-scale drug trafficking cases. Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week issued a new memo providing guidance to federal prosecutors to how to apply the death penalty to...
by adminTorusBrand | Apr 9, 2018 | Politics
State treasurers from four states wrote a letter to Attorney General Sessions requesting a meeting to resolve the federal-state marijuana law conflict. Officials from several states that have legalized marijuana are hoping to meet with United States Attorney General...
by adminTorusBrand | Apr 5, 2018 | Politics
Investigators discover that decriminalization leads to less arrests and does not lead to uptick in use among children and teens. A new study from researchers associated with Washington University and the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that reducing the...
by adminTorusBrand | Apr 2, 2018 | Politics
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy announced the expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program at a recent news conference at his Trenton office. New Jersey’s medical marijuana program is expanding as of immediately in an effort to be more “compassionate, progressive,...
