Shortly after Mike Boyer jubilantly bought the first bag of legal recreational marijuana ever sold in Spokane, one of his employers demanded he take drug tests, which he could never pass.
Just because your car smells of burnt or dried pot doesn't give police the right to search it, the Massachusetts Supreme Court has determined.
It's prevention over incarceration in the White House's latest missive about drug control, a policy they call the "third way." But MPP's Mason Tvert asks, "Why stay the course when the current policy has utterly failed?"
In its report, "Medical Marijuana Access in the U.S.," ASA rates the 34 states with any kind of medical cannabis law. No state receives an A (four receive Bs) and 12 get Fs, included every state that recently passed CBD legislation.
It was a bittersweet victory for reform advocates and state legislators, who hammered out a compromise bill with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, making New York the 23rd state to legalize medical marijuana.
