The state-licensed cannabis industry gained over 64,000 new employees in 2018, and now employs over 200,000 full-time workers, according to data compiled by Whitney Economics and the online content provider Leafly.com. Commenting on the new findings, NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri said, “The federal government needs to deschedule marijuana to allow [read more]
Washington, DC: NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri will join Representatives Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) and Don Young (AK-AL) to hold a press conference introducing two bipartisan marijuana bills. The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2019 would remove marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances list and allow states the freedom to [read more]
Changes in the legal status of marijuana are not associated with an increased likelihood that more adolescents will consume it, according data published in the International Journal of Drug Policy. A University of Kent professor of sociology and social research analyzed three separate waves of global marijuana use data from 38 countries over [read more]
Cannabis exposure is not associated with significant changes in brain morphology in either older or younger subjects, according to a pair of newly published studies. In the first study, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine compared brain scans of occasional (one to two times per week) and [read more]
The Office of the San Francisco District Attorney has announced that it will automatically expunge over 9,000 marijuana-related convictions. Last February, city officials announced efforts to proactively review and vacate past marijuana-related crimes. To date, the office has sealed several thousand cases and is taking actions to resentence an estimated 5,000 additional felony cases. On [read more]
Today, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) along with Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), introduced The Marijuana Justice Act of 2019, to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and incentivize states to end the racially disparate criminalization of marijuana consumers. Click here to send a message to your [read more]
Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) possess lower levels of endogenous cannabinoids than do matched controls, according to data published in the journal Molecular Autism. Israeli researchers compared endocannabinoid serum levels in 93 patients with ASD versus controls. They reported “substantially lower” serum levels of the primary endocannabinoid anandamide, as well as its related [read more]
State laws liberalizing marijuana’s criminal status are not associated over the long-term with any significant uptick in youth use, according to data published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. A team of researchers from Boston College assessed marijuana use data in a cohort of 860,000 adolescents from 45 states over [read more]
The mayor of Buffalo has requested the city’s police department to cease making low-level marijuana arrests. The policy change is similar to those in other major cities around the country, including Baltimore, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Norfolk, Virginia. Buffalo Police Captain Jeff Rinaldo offered no objection to the change, stating that “legalization appears to be on [read more]
Legislation is heading to the Governor’s desk to expand patients’ access to medical cannabis products. Senate Bill 1557 expands the pool of health professionals who can approve cannabis therapy to include nurse practitioners and physician assistants. It also permits qualifying patients access to a broader spectrum of products containing both plant-derived CBD [read more]
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