Most Mondays, NORML’s Political Director Justin Strekal hosts a live stream on the NORML Facebook page at 4 pm EST for the latest news and a frank discussion about marijuana policy reform at the federal level. This week on the agenda was the impending reform efforts through the federal appropriations process and the progress being […]
Some two-thirds of cities and towns in New Jersey have elected not to permit licensed marijuana retailers. Localities had until this past Saturday to decide whether to allow retail operations or to bar them. Those municipalities that have chosen to opt out are free to reverse their position at any time. The initial citywide moratoriums […]
Concerns that legalizing marijuana for those ages 18 and older in Canada would lead to adverse public health consequences have not come to fruition, according to an analysis published in the Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. The analysis finds that there has been “no marked increase in cannabis youth by use” in the […]
Marijuana use by teens is not independently associated with an increased risk of so-called ‘Amotivational syndrome,” according to longitudinal data published in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. A team of researchers affiliated with Florida International University assessed the association between cannabis use and motivation in a cohort of 401 adolescents (ages 14 to […]
Washington, DC: United States Senate Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), along with Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) unveiled draft legislation repealing the federal prohibition of marijuana at a press conference on Wednesday. You can watch the press conference here. The draft legislation, titled the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, makes numerous changes to federal marijuana […]
The enactment of adult-use marijuana legalization laws and retail sales is associated with increased home values, according to an economic analysis published this week by the online realtor website Clever Real Estate. A data analyst with the group reviewed “publicly available data from Zillow and the U.S. Census, among other sources, to explore the relationships […]
Young adults residing near marijuana retailers are no more likely to express an intention to use either cannabis or tobacco than are those who do not, according to data published in The Journal of Cannabis Research. Researchers with the RAND Corporation and with the University of Southern California assessed the relationship between the density of […]
The federal government is prosecuting and convicting fewer people for violating marijuana trafficking laws, according to data provided by the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC). According to a new fact-sheet issued by the Commission, just over 1,000 people were sentenced federally in 2020 for violating marijuana trafficking laws. That’s down 67 percent since 2016, and over 80 percent since […]
Athlete Sha’Carri Richardson has been suspended and barred from running in the Olympic Games in Tokyo after testing positive for marijuana. Following the reporting of her suspension from competition, NORML issued the following statements: “In the past, it has never made much sense for marijuana use outside of competition to be a disqualifying factor for […]
Justices on Mexico’s highest court moved today to permit adults to possess and cultivate small quantities of marijuana without penalty. In 2018, the Court determined that the sections of the federal law criminalizing the private use and cultivation of cannabis by adults were unconstitutional. At that time, the majority opined, “The effects caused by marijuana […]
