An insightful article a few weeks ago on MassRoots (www.massroots.com) urges readers to "rebrand" cannabis and call it by its proper scientific name: cannabis. The piece goes through the apparently racist history of those who adopted the term "marijuana" as they pushed for criminalization of cannabis...
Today, in a both exciting and sobering press release, Canada announced a plan to fully "legalize, strictly regulate and restrict access" to cannabis in the Great White North. The release starts bluntly: "The current approach to cannabis does not work." The government of Prime Minister Justin...
In what is mostly a blow to the burgeoning legal marijuana industry, the Drug Enforcement Administration decided not to remove marijuana from the list of Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act, continuing to deem it as dangerous as heroin and LSD. Meanwhile, other...