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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 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

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year, you know that the U.S. is engaged in picking a new President.  Although issues such as immigration, income inequality, foreign policy and religious freedom have dominated the headlines, all the candidates are on record regarding marijuana: its medical uses, whether it should be rescheduled, how the federal-state legal discrepancies…
Continue Reading Election 2016: Where do the Candidates Stand on Marijuana?

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your source for articles on legalized marijuana.  Supporters of full legalization had a “one step forward; one step back” week.  It looks like a ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana will qualify for the November ballot in California, but in Vermont, legislation that would have legalized cannabis was defeated.  You win some; you lose…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: May 6, 2016

Readers will recall that the District of Columbia is 1) a jurisdiction in which marijuana is legal for recreational purposes, 2) a jurisdiction with an unusual system of governance, involving the United States Congress and 3) a jurisdiction in which the use of marijuana in public places is still illegal.

A few weeks ago, we wrote a post on the…
Continue Reading On Again, Off Again: The Latest in the D.C. Private Club Saga

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your weekly update on events in the world of marijuana.  See the links below for news on quantifying the impact of the industry on the economy; the vote in Pennsylvania that has that state poised to legalize medical marijuana; and a bill in Vermont that could make that state the first to legalize…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: March 18, 2016

In Washington, D.C. the Mayor and City Council are in the midst of a controversy over whether marijuana consumption should be allowed in private clubs.  Under current D.C. law, use of marijuana is banned in “any place to which the public is invited.”  While the law clearly allows use of marijuana in a private residence (other than federally subsidized housing…
Continue Reading When is a Private Club Private?