Articles tagged with "politics"

In advance of briefing Congress on US marijuana policy, Rick Steves—travel writer, PBS host, and passionate cannabis advocate—shares his views on the problems of prohibition.

From ‘boom’ to ‘errl,’ Health Canada’s ‘cannabis slang terms’ have Canadian cannabis fans scratching their heads.

“With no prior notice to Congress, the Justice Department has trampled on the will of the voters in CO and other states.”—Cory Gardner, US Senator from Colorado

Our Prime Minister pen-pal series continues, with a call for seasonally appropriate empathy for “cannabis criminals.”

The province has determined that cannabis will not be sold in places that sell tobacco, liquor or pharmaceuticals—but has yet to release details about how the private stores will operate.

Hotels, motels, and inns will be able to accommodate medical cannabis use in fully-enclosed sleeping suites (though this exception doesn’t carry over to recreational use).

There will be 20 stores in 15 communities, along with an online retailer, all of which will reportedly be in place in time for July’s legalization.

As one Ontario Member of Parliament tries to steer industrial grow ops away from prime farmland and into rural areas, some farmers and scientists in the region question the motive of the proposal.

There are myriad problems with the new rules, lawyers say, and they won’t survive the constitutional court challenges that are sure to follow if those rules become law.

Never mind that cannabis will be recreationally legal in nine months—right now it’s against the law, and the law is the only thing Quebec police care about.