Marijuana legalization reform continues to pick up steam from Kentucky to California. Last week, Congress introduced a bill to remove cannabis from the Controlled Substance List.
In practice, the Cole Memo allowed states to feel relatively confident about moving forward with marijuana legalization, with little fear of federal intrusion.
Marijuana is considered essentially a benign substance to 91 percent of the American public. A martini or a cigarette or a candy bar are considered more dangerous.
While much of the marijuana media has reported that marijuana is legal in the communist dictatorship of North Korea, all of those accounts have been false.