Articles tagged with "legalization"

Trudeau’s proposed legislation calls for the provinces to oversee the distribution and sale of recreational marijuana and to take on some related responsibilities. It’s a tall order, and provinces say they need help.

The island’s treasury secretary says the medical cannabis industry could generate up to $100 million a year and help ease an unemployment rate of around 12%.

The New Jersey senator wants to fully deschedule cannabis, effectively ending 80 years of federal prohibition.

State lawmakers are examining the initiative process after being caught off-guard by voters who approved the use of medical marijuana in November.

Roger Stone, Roy Wood Jr., Xeni Jardin and a host of others battled prohibitionist Kevin Sabet at LA’s policy wonk-con.

To the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau: It feels like just yesterday you were campaigning with the promise to “legalize, regulate, and restrict access to marijuana” —and now, here we are! However…

Questions abound, but conclusive answers about how best to determine real-time cannabis impairment remain elusive.

Cannabis-related charges across Canada continue to drop since peaking in 2011. But not in Quebec, police data show.

At its core is the assertion that the government’s classification of cannabis as a Schedule I substance is so “irrational” as to be unconstitutional.

Legislators nearly killed the best parts of the state’s legalization law. Then local activists stepped to help create a gold-standard set of regulations.