Articles tagged with "laws"

This week, Will is joined by Leafly’s legal counsel Deserae Weittman to talk about the evolving legal situation around cannabis, and how it looks from a lawyer’s eye view.

“Nothing in California law purports to authorize the cultivation of marijuana on federal land,” the 9th Circuit ruled.

Gov. Eric Holcomb recently signed a bill allowing for the widespread use of cannabis-derived oil after nearly a year of legal confusion.

The president grudgingly signed the $1.3 trillion bill, effectively renewing critical Rohrabacher-Blumenauer MMJ protections.

To qualify, patients must have six months or less to live, and doctors would not be allowed to recommend the treatment to more than 25 patients at a time.

The $1.3 trillion spending bill prevents the Justice Department from spending money to prosecute MMJ cases in legal states.

To try to solve the tug-of-war, some people point to the Constitution’s supremacy clause. Legal scholars and policy experts say it’s not nearly that simple.

Tribes floated the idea of setting up farms and retail sales on reservations after concluding that state rules would strip them of their right to self-governance.

Despite the fact that over half of the United States has legal access to some form of cannabis, publicly consuming it is illegal. What will it take to change that?

A Canadian police force has conceded that one of its officers misspoke when they suggested that cannabis consumption leads to breast growth in men—or, as the officer told the students, “Doobies make boobies.”