Tag Archives: Drug Policy Alliance

19 Jan

Featured, Marijuana News

House Introduces Marijuana Legalization Bill Focused on Racial Justice

• January 19, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Bill Establishes $500 Million Community Reinvestment Fund Aimed at Repairing Damage of War on Drugs Washington, D....

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19 Jan

Featured, Marijuana News

House Introduces Marijuana Legalization Bill, Focused on Racial Justice, As Companion to Cory Booker’s Senate Bill

• January 19, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representatives Barbara Lee (D-CA-13) and Ro Khanna (D-CA-17) introduced legislation that ends federal mariju...

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11 Jan

Featured, Marijuana News

Commentary: Jeff Sessions Is Just Wasting Time Cracking Down on Marijuana

• January 11, 2018
• By Shelby Pierce

Last week, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded previous Justice Department guidance, known as the “Cole Memo,” that instructe...

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23 Dec

Featured, Marijuana News

California’s Lt. Gov. Calls Legal Weed “Criminal Justice Reform”

• December 23, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic Lt. Gov. for the past six years, was an early supporter of marijuana legalization. A candidate fo...

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22 Nov

Featured, Marijuana News

California: Uncertainty reigns when it comes to what the legal recreational marijuana market will look like

• November 22, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

As of Jan. 1, Palo Altans will be able to buy marijuana by delivery but it will be illegal to sell in stores. Five miles away in Mounta...

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22 Jul

Featured, Marijuana News

Latinx y Cannabis: Informando la Comunidad

• July 22, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

We have posted about the Cannabis Cultural Association before and commend them for their hard work in cannabis law reform and in unitin...

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20 Jul

Featured, Medical Marijuana

Jeff Sessions misguided marijuana crackdown-commentary

• July 20, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Nearly a half a century of America's "War on Drugs" has produced the largest prison population in the world, devastated minority co...

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27 Jun

Featured, Law and Politics

Prohibition didn’t work for alcohol and it’s failing for marijuana

• June 25, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Why haven’t we legalised marijuana already? It’s a question brought to mind after reading Fairfax crime writer John Sylvester’s recent ...

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21 Jun

Featured, International News, Law and Politics, Marijuana News

Federal bill introduced to protect medical marijuana states, provide access to veterans

• June 21, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Abipartisan group of senators and representatives has reintroduced legislation to protect patients in states where medical marijuana ha...

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24 May

Featured, International News, Law and Politics, Marijuana News

Legalized Marijuana convictions go up in smoke with California legalization

• May 24, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

LOS ANGELES (KABC) --Thousands of pot convictions in California are going up in smoke - thanks to the state's new marijuana law. Since...

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