Articles tagged with "decriminalization"

Did you add charitable giving to your holiday traditions this year? Check out these cannabis causes that could use your help or donation.

Starting Aug. 1, possession of up to a half-ounce will be a misdemeanor: A $100 fine and no jail time, even for repeat offenders.

The state Supreme Court just tossed Washington’s felony drug possession law. What exactly does that mean?

The nation’s most wide-ranging drug reform measure secures a spot on the ballot.

Cities are starting to decriminalize psychedelics. Here are some conditions that entheogenic plants may help treat.

On a bitterly cold night in February 2015, Gillian Heintzelman left her job at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and made her way to a nearby bar to meet her boyfriend and a friend. They stayed for a few minutes, and then left together to get a late-night dinner. They’d only driven a couple […]

Law enforcement made an estimated 663,367 cannabis-related arrests in 2018, according to FBI data released this week, up from an estimated 659,700 the previous year. Most were for simple possession.

Mexico is making moves on cannabis, with medical regulations expected in coming months and even the possibility of decriminalization later this year.

If you’re lighting up in Maryland, you can forget the Febreze. The state’s Court of Appeals has ruled that smelling cannabis isn’t grounds for police to search and arrest a person.

It’ll be a $50 ticket for holding less than one ounce, $200 for one to two ounces of cannabis.