Just as with the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s, the federal prohibition of marijuana has been unnecessarily cruel, wasting billions of dollar, unjustly harming millions of lives, and furthering racist policies.
Jim McClendon's reasoning resembled those conservatives have made in Texas as well, stating any loosening of the law will eventually lead to full-blown recreational cannabis reform.
America’s showdown with China is actually hurting the cannabis trade, despite the fact marijuana isn’t exported or imported (legally, at least) by the United States.
The presidential nominee announced this week that he supports marijuana decriminalization, but he wouldn’t go so far as to support legalization at a federal level.
Italy’s firebrand Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has promised to shutter every legal cannabis shop in Italy “one by one” and collapse the government should his coalition partner not comply with the demand.
Matthew Gaetz believes his Democratic colleagues have good ideas around cannabis reform, but they’re too distracted by investigations and allegations around if Trump did not obstruct justice and collude with Russia.
Out of all the Democratic candidates that have put their hats in the ring, the one that has the best chance at earning it, former Vice President Joe Biden, might be a little backwards when it comes to marijuana reform.