To repair what they say was damage done to minorities targeted in the war on drugs, the Oakland City Council on Tuesday approved laws to make the city’s pot industry more inclusive of black and Latino residents.
The sons of a woman shot to death in 2014 have filed what appears to be the country’s first wrongful death lawsuit against the recreational marijuana industry.
Massachusetts marijuana legalization initiative: A new lawsuit filed with the state’s highest court alleges the November ballot question misleads voters about its ramifications and the measure should be blocked.
The scheduling of various drugs was decided largely by Congress and absent a scientific process – with some strange results.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has announced that it will decide whether to change federal drug laws regarding marijuana “in the first half of 2016,” which should prompt a reexamination of how drugs are classified.
Utah will not pass a medical marijuana bill this year. Lawmakers on Thursday killed the more restrictive of two medical marijuana bills introduced in the state. They rejected a broader plan earlier this week.
A Denver judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against the state’s largest marijuana grower over its alleged use of pesticides saying the consumers behind the case were not actually harmed.
A New Hampshire woman who was suffering from late-stage cancer when she won permission to buy medical marijuana in Maine before it was available in her home state died Monday.
The U.S. Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration say a lawsuit from the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin seeking the right to grow an industrial crop related to marijuana should be dismissed.
A federal judge this week removed the governor and other state and Pueblo County officials as defendants in a high-profile racketeering lawsuit that is attempting to stop legal marijuana in Colorado.
A Health Economics journal study finds that obesity declined in states with legal medical marijuana laws, citing that lower chronic pain allowed for exercise and a shift from alcohol lowered caloric intake.
Three of the four marijuana lawsuits filed against Colorado officials and businesses were organized and at least partially funded by out-of-state anti-drug organizations and socially conservative law firms, a Denver Post analysis shows.
Why the far-reaching racketeering lawsuits filed against Colorado marijuana businesses are a particularly dangerous development for the cannabis industry.
Oklahoma’s attorney general says his state and others are suffering from the export of marijuana from Colorado and wants the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether Colorado’s pot market violates federal law.
A judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking federal approval for the first credit union for marijuana in Colorado, saying that allowing it “would facilitate criminal activity.”
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has said that he plans to continue to press the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to sue Colorado over its marijuana laws, despite objection from President Obama’s administration.
Our guests on The Cannabist Show: ArcView Group president Troy Dayton and Pueblo County commissioner Sal Pace. Recorded live at The Cannabist Awards.
U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr.’s opinion on why the U.S. Supreme Court should deny a complaint against Colorado’s marijuana laws brought by neighboring states is straightforward and sensible.
The Menominee Nation filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking a federal judge to clarify that the tribe has a right to grow industrial hemp on its Wisconsin reservation.
A county judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed Denver consultant Kayvan Khalatbari was highly involved in too many Illinois medical marijuana businesses.
Two marijuana users in Colorado have filed suit against a pot grower they say used an unhealthy pesticide on the weed they later bought.
It’s go time this week for proposed California medical marijuana laws as Gov. Jerry Brown’s “remix” is part of a session-closing play for the Legislature.
Recent decisions by state judges have revealed a legal loophole in Wyoming marijuana laws that lawmakers are trying to close.
The Cannabist Show: Talking Colorado marijuana issues with Democratic state Sen. Pat Steadman and cannabis consultant Katherine Grimm of CNN’s “High Profits” series.
A federal law crafted to fight the mob is giving marijuana opponents a new strategy in their battle to stop the expanding industry: racketeering lawsuits.
