Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker signed Senate Bill No. 2524 (SB 2524) on Friday, which will delay part of a voter-approved marijuana legalization initiative by six months. Massachusetts citizens voted 53.7% to approve the "possession, use, distribution,...
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JURIST Guest Columnist Amy St. John, manager at Earth's Healing, shares some professional experiences and personal opinions from her time spent working inside the marijuana industry...I have worked in the medical marijuana industry since 2013 in both Arizona and...
The Mexican Senate on Tuesday approved the use of medical marijuana. The announcement was made on the official Senate twitter along with a video of the debate. Number-803 allows for the...
Crossroads or a Curve: The Death Penalty and the 2016 Election
JURIST Guest Columnist Jeffrey L. Kirchmeier of CUNY School of Law discusses the death penalty and the 2016 election...Commentators will be debating the causes and impact of the outcome of the November 8, 2016 US presidential election for a long...
JURIST Guest Columnist Hilary Bricken, of Canna Law Group, discusses the Trump administration and how it could impact the status of cannabis at the state level...With a recent Gallup poll showing 60 percent of Americans favor cannabis legalization, it...
The Most Significant Gain from Cannabis Legalization: One Lawyer's Perspective
JURIST Guest Columnist Jody H. Lehrer, of Northeastern Institute of Cannabis , discusses the national movement towards the legalization of cannabis...With increasing frequency states are enacting laws, either through legislators or through voter initiatives, that are chipping away at...
A report released Monday by the Global Commission on Drug Policy recommends "no penalty whatsoever" for low-level possession and consumption drug offenses. The commission of 23, which includes former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, Virgin Group founder...
Voters in Washington, DC, on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favor of DC becoming the fifty-first US state. Advisory Referendum B asked voters if the DC Council should petition the US Congress to admit the state of "New Columbia"...
Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved proposals to legalize recreational marijuana on Tuesday, while several other states voted to permit the use of medical marijuana. California voters passed Proposal 64 , which immediately permits those over 21...
A study released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) found that arrests for possessing marijuana exceeded arrests for violent crimes. Law enforcement agencies made roughly 13.6 percent more arrests...
