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Aug 23, 2023
Terps and Teens
Teenage consumption of cannabis remains flat or falling
As states began debating cannabis legalization in earnest 15 years ago or so, one of the main talking points of the prohibitionist crowd was that legalizing weed would cause consumption...
Aug 16, 2023
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 behalf of farmers and lobbyists in his home state of Kentucky—to legalize hemp,...
Aug 9, 2023
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 U.S. Tax Code is likely to elicit yawns. It sounds technical and wonky,...
Aug 2, 2023
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 comes to drug laws.The House is under the thrall of a bunch of...
Jul 26, 2023
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 whether to legalize psilocybin—“magic mushrooms”—the same way they voted to legalize cannabis in...
Jul 19, 2023
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 close-up portrait shots of people, apparently in their 30s, who could easily comprise...
Jul 12, 2023
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 prison people convicted of cannabis crimes and to expunge those convictions from their...
