Articles tagged with "legalization"

Gov. Mary Fallin says voters will be asked to decide the issue during the primary election in June or the November general election.

Dave’s back with a little something extra this week. Ben goes off on 280E and homegrow prohibition in his home state. Bruce yaks about drowning dogs and MMJ patients getting their guns seized.

Proponents would need to gather and submit at least 13,452 valid signatures to get a proposed measure on the 2018 ballot.

Prop 64 promised to kill the illicit market. But with tax markups as high as 45%, legal shops may have a hard time competing.

“Marijuana is here to stay,” travel guru Rick Steves said. States can either build more prisons to lock up drug users or “figure out a better solution.”

Legalization will empower educators to advise people on how to use cannabis responsibly, instead of potentially coming under fire for endorsing the use of an illegal substance.

“We wanted to be really careful that our message wasn’t anti-marijuana, but was very anti-driving-while-impaired,” says BBDO creative chief Denise Rossetto.

“This is an opportunity we won’t see again,” says Cronos CEO Michael Gorenstein. “I won’t say once in a lifetime but in multiple lifetimes.”

Van der Pop, North America’s leading female-focused cannabis brand, held its very first Women & Weed event earlier this month in Toronto. Here’s what we learned.

“With respect to everything else going on in the US, this is pretty low-priority,” former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a recent interview.