Expensive regulation and high demand across the country have made the illicit trade more profitable than going legit.
Three Republican Senators Stand in the Way of Federal Weed Legislation
There’s finally bipartisan support for cannabis legislation — but unless it can get past a small group of Republican senators, the bills will continue to fizzle
New Congressional Bill Would Let Oregon Export Cannabis
Oregon’s famous oversupply of cannabis has finally generated a federal solution. Or at least an attempt at one.
How Legal Weed Is Killing America’s Most Famous Marijuana Farmers
In the forests of Northern California, the regulatory state—not the DEA—is forcing thousands of growers out of business, or back underground.
Congressional lawmakers have little to say about psychedelics following Denver decriminalization victory
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a longtime supporter of cannabis reform legislation, was willing to answer questions about what it will take for a marijuana banking bill to pass the Senate, but when asked by Marijuana Moment if states’ rights apply to psilocybin, the senator demurred.
“I don’t, I don’t have a comment on that,” he said, picking up his pace and hurrying down the hall in Dirksen Senate Office Building.
Your cannabis can't be certified organic - but it can be Kosher
The term ‘organic’ is controlled by the FDA - a federal government body. Until cannabis is federally legal, growers and producers cannot use the term ‘organic’ anywhere on their product. One farmer in California, however, has come up with a creative alternative - one not controlled by the government, but rather by God: Kosher.
State and local lawmakers clash over cannabis delivery
States used the right of local rule to defy the federal government and legalize cannabis. So what happens when a city or county within a legal state wants to exercise their own right of ‘local rule’ to prohibit or limit cannabis?
Could this be the first cannabis bill passed by the federal government?
With a new Democratic majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, many advocates and pro-cannabis lawmakers believe that the SAFE Banking Act could be the first standalone cannabis bill to successfully pass through the federal government.
What President Trump didn't say about cannabis in his State of the Union
President Trump has been leaving marijuana out of his ongoing list of drugs being trafficked into America; does that mean he has a softer stance on the Schedule I drug?
If NAFTA changes, American hospitals will be 'chaos,' according to some nurses
Up to 20% of some hospitals’ staff commute daily across the border from Canada, under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Meet the cannabis farmer who can't own his farm
When Richard Vinal came to work at HiFi Farms, he brought years of expertise in growing cannabis - and a prison record for doing it.
Donald Trump may have accidentally created a new womens' movement
American women have come far since the first women's rights convention in 1848. The first female conductor,
speaker of the house, astronaut to walk in space, chess grandmaster and others explain what it was like to
break the glass ceiling in their field, and what is next for America's women.