The first Senate marijuana bill of the new Congress focuses on increasing research on the medical benefits of cannabis for military veterans. The legislation, introduced by Sens. Jon...
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a member of Congress since 2013 and previously a Hawaii state legislator and Honolulu city councilmember, announced she was seeking the 2020...
A Republican congressman called his colleagues “stupid” for blocking marijuana research and spoke about his cannabis conversations with President Trump in a Fox Business interview on...
The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill federally legalized industrial hemp and gave current and prospective farmers of the crop reason to celebrate. But the partial...
Newly sworn-in Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) recently pledged that marijuana legalization would be among the “priorities” for the 2019 legislative session. Now lawmakers appear to...
Preventing illicit drug trafficking has been described as a primary goal of President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. But the president and lawmakers...
Considering the legalization of marijuana will be a top priority for Hawaii lawmakers this year, Senate President Ron Kouchi (D) said on Wednesday. Kouchi: Senate agenda includes...
A bipartisan bill designed to stimulate research into marijuana was reintroduced on Wednesday—with changes that could significantly increase its chances of passage in the 116th Congress....
Congress needs to come up with a solution for banking access by the marijuana industry, a top federal Treasury Department official said on Wednesday. And he...
The U.S.’s 50 state governors just got their annual report cards from a leading national marijuana legalization organization, and—for the first time—over half of them got...