Hemp and Mitch

The Senate minority leader remains a prohibitionist A thought exercise: what if someone had approached Mitch McConnell in 2017 or 2018, when he was pushing—on...

Reform 280E

It’s due time the tax code reflected the will of the people Depending on who one talks to, the subject of provision 280E of the...

Bud Buffoonery

Why the path to legalization is so fraught The 118th Congress might be the perfect representation of how added federal policymaking currently functions when it...

Room for Shrooms

Psilocybin legalization may be right around the corner with new ballot measure It’s becoming more likely that California voters next year will get to decide...

Who’s a Stoner?

Cannabis consumers are just like us The cover of a recent report on cannabis consumers, produced by New Frontier Data, features a set of nine...

New Drug War

States across the country, as well as the federal government under veteran drug-warrior President Joe Biden, are falling all over themselves to free from...

Deschedule It

The senselessness of our federal drug scheduling system Cannabis is a Schedule 1 “narcotic” under federal regulations, even as it’s being used for medical purposes...

Blowing Smoke

Federal legalization is favored by the bipartisan majority, but that doesn’t stop some politicians from pushing reefer madness Support for legal weed in the United...