Welcome back to The Year In Weed, The Blunt Truth’s annual roundup of cannabis-related stories. As usual, I’ll adopt Dave Barry’s Year in Review (sadly, no longer available for free) format and look at stories month by month. Last year, I hoped that the feds, New York and Alabama would get their acts together, as I was running out of metaphors to describe their respective situations. Did that holiday dream come true? Well…Continue Reading The Year in Weed: 2024 Edition
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we have some analysis of the comments on rescheduling cannabis, now that the comment period has ended. We see a new cannabis-related bill signed into law in Delaware. We find out where Vice President Kamala Harris stands on legalization. And finally, the police in Wisconsin have a few choice words for whoever left a stash of weed on the beach. Continue Reading The Week in Weed: July 26, 2024
Welcome back to the Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Arizona voters will decide whether to legalize cannabis in November, Senator Schumer opposes new USDA hemp rules. The American Heart Association has some thoughts on cannabis. Pitt will start researching marijuana. A bill to legalize cannabis is on its way to
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: August 14, 2020
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
We start off today with Pennsylvania. Could it be the next state to legalize? First, the state’s attorney general announced that he is in favor. Meanwhile, the governor asked the Pardons Board to speed up applications for those with low-level marijuana
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: October 4, 2019
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Possibly the biggest news this week was the first ever Congressional hearing on cannabis banking. From the hearing’s webpage, you can watch the hearing, read the committee’s memorandum and read the witnesses’ prepared statements. The committee memorandum has a great
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: February 15, 2019
Welcome back to The Weed in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
In what’s become a regular feature, we have more politicians who are coming out in favor of legalized marijuana, or at least, backing away from their previous opposition.