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The Florida chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) filed a civil lawsuit against the Broward County Commissioner of Elections, after news reports indicated that some mail-in ballots did not include a question about a state constitutional amendment on allowing medical marijuana.

The plaintiffs’ are seeking “a judicial declaration enjoining the Defendants from distributing any…
Continue Reading UP IN SMOKE?: NORML Sues After Reports that FL Medical Marijuana Measure Disappeared From Ballot

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

Voters OK’d decriminalization and medical marijuana, but the Question 4 campaign is proving tougher.

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Continue Reading The Week in Weed: October 21, 2016

With only a month to Election Day, The Blunt Truth turns its attention to the ballot measures in nine states that would expand legal access to marijuana.  This week we look at two of the five states— Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada —with ballot measures proposing to legalize recreational marijuana use for anyone 21 and over:
Continue Reading RE[e]FERENDUMS: 2016 Marijuana State Ballot Initiatives

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

The Justice Department can’t interfere with states’ medical pot laws.

Note: we’re preparing a blog post on this topic – keep watching this space!

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Continue Reading The Week in Weed: August 19

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

The Drug Enforcement Agency will announce Thursday that marijuana will remain a schedule 1 drug, which declares it has “no medical use or purpose,” according to a…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: August 12

Yesterday sparks flew as word was out that the DEA would be making some important announcements relating to the treatment of marijuana as a Schedule 1 substance under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).

Today, the excitement died down as the DEA issued a 180-page denial (inclusive of attachments; the actual denial is only three pages long) of a petition to…
Continue Reading DEA Buzzkill: Marijuana Remains Illegal Under Federal Law

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.

You would have been hard pressed, just a few years ago, to find investments outside of family-office groups. Then Washington and Colorado legalized.

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Continue Reading Week in Weed: July 22, 2016

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legal marijuana.

It’s not just for Microsoft anymore!  Is global technology giant Google the latest major U.S. corporation to kick the tires of the marijuana industry? It could…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: July 8, 2016

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at the world of legalized marijuana.

Nebraska and Oklahoma may not have had their day in (Supreme) Court, but they are undeterred in their fight against…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: July 1, 2016