Marijuana impairment has been a sticking point for police across the country. Determining it is a mixed bag, with most ways only testing if you have smoked marijuana within the past month or so. A urine test or a breathalyzer are not very effective in seeing if someone is high at that very moment. So […]
A new study has found a vaccine used to stop the high of fentanyl from reaching the brain to be effective on rats. Anti-fentanyl antibodies bind to the fetanyl as it enters the body and does not allow it to attach to receptors. Therefore the user wouldn’t feel the high and lose their desire to […]
New York has begun issuing the first licenses for legal marijuana dispensaries around the state. According to multiple news sources around the area, 36 different dispensary licenses were issued Monday. This signifies a monumental step in legal marijuana for the state. 175 total licenses will be distributed over the coming months. Many of those licenses […]
The election was a good day for drug activists in Oregon, and the main reason for this is the Governor-elect Tina Kotek will follow in the current Governor’s footsteps. A Democrat was elected as the next Governor. Her two opponents were both against Measure 110, which passed in 2020 and would decriminalize small possessions of […]
According to the latest Gallup poll, support for marijuana legalization is at all time highs. According to this new poll, roughly 68% of all Americans support some form of marijuana legalization. Within this poll, there are answers from many different social groups. For those who support marijuana legalization, the numbers are as follows. Those with […]
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed an executive order providing legal protections for qualifying patients who obtain medical cannabis products from out-of-state. The order provides those eligible patients a “full, complete, and conditional pardon” if they face prosecution for the possession of up to eight ounces of cannabis. “Kentuckians suffering from chronic and terminal conditions are […]
Rule number of controversy, it seems, is to capitalize the moment. Bundle the story up into a commodity and sell it. Mike Tyson has been doing this exact thing for 25 years, ever since he bit off a chunk of opponent Evander Holyfield’s ear in a championship boxing match. Now, he’s finally got Holyfield onboard […]
In an update to the recent article about the Spanish marijuana farm bust, there have been new details released. According to multiple people around the issue as well as other news outlets in the area, the drug bust was actually more of a hemp bust than a marijuana bust. Francisco Gomez Carbo, the administrator of […]
A week after two new states joined the legal marijuana landscape, a hearing will be held to discuss the various paths to legalization that have been introduced. For one, Republican Nancy Mace’s federal legalization bill has been circling for months now, and she had previously been promised a hearing for her bill, titled the States […]
As we’ve anticipated, some new states now have legal marijuana. Although it wasn’t the blowout that I was hoping for, the news is mainly good for drug and marijuana legalization across the country. The first state to receive legal weed by a huge margin is Maryland, with 65% of the population voting in favor. Missouri […]
