With marijuana sales in Colorado topping $1 billion, local and state officials are making the most of marijuana tax dollars by reinvesting in public education and funding local projects.
Category: Families
California: Teen Marijuana Use Declines Sharply Post-Legalization
San Francisco, CA: Marijuana use by adolescents continues to decline in California, according to statewide data provided by the California Healthy Kids Survey, a biennial survey funded by the Departments of Health and Education.
Talk About Marijuana At Thanksgiving This Year
We have much to be thankful for this year. Lawmakers in 26 states have passed legislation to advance cannabis reform, including New Hampshire becoming the 22nd state to decriminalize marijuana and West Virginia becoming the 30th state to pass a medical marijuana program.
College Medical Marijuana Policy Leaves Many Students Unable to Legally Consume
What’s a medical marijuana card-holding college student to do when they are required to live in on-campus housing but their medicine is banned from the premises?
California: Victims of Inconsistent Marijuana Laws
Local and state laws struggle to establish consistency for California marijuana farmers.
Wisconsin: GOP Lawmakers Consider Support for Marijuana Law Reform Legislation
Some republican lawmakers in Wisconsin are reconsidering their position on marijuana reforms during the 2017 legislative session.
Save WAMM: America’s Oldest Cannabis Collective
Help save one of America’s original medical marijuana collectives for patients in Santa Cruz, California.
Responsible Pot Use, Responsible Parenting: What’s The Problem?
One of the policy areas in greatest need of reform involves the typical response of our child custody system in this country when they learn that a parent smokes marijuana; in all states today, including those that have legalized marijuana either for medical use or for all adults, the child custody agency stubbornly maintains an unfair bias against parents who smoke marijuana. I suspect most of us have personally witnessed the disruption to someone’s life that results when, for any of a number of possible reasons, a parent’s marijuana smoking […]
62% of Georgia Voters Support Marijuana Decriminalization
Atlanta, GA – A newly released poll found that over half of Georgia voters support a marijuana legalization policy similar to that of Colorado and Washington (54%), however that same report found that even larger majority supports decriminalization. 62% of respondents believe that the state should remove criminal penalties for possession of less than one ounce of pot, and replace it with a $100 civil fine, without the possibility of jail time. Only 32% were opposed. Interestingly, 56% of seniors, and republicans respectively, were among that nearly two-thirds majority. The poll, […]
Marijuana Arrest: Devastation Of A Life Well Lived
If there is another human being who has publicly debated more in favor of cannabis law reform, or, spoken to more legal victims of America’s cannabis laws than me, I want to meet and thank them. From these hundreds of debates and thousands of personal encounters with my fellow cannabis consumers busted for ganja, one single phrase that I constantly hear from those who still support cannabis prohibition that instantly pushes my button is: No one gets busted for pot anymore in America…It’s practically legal. Thankfully, because of the non-stop […]