Vice President Kamala Harris has admitted to smoking pot in the past, she even said she inhaled. Yet the Biden White House has just cut some staffers for doing the same thing. Many people on the left will see this as a massive betrayal. FOX News reports: WH axes staffers over past pot use even though […] More
Cannabis activist group DC Marijuana Justice plans to offer weed gift bags to those who get the COVID-19 vaccine in the nation’s capital, the organization has announced. “We are looking for ways to safely celebrate the end of the pandemic and we know nothing brings people together like cannabis,” wrote DCMJ co-founder Nikolas Schiller in a press release for […] More
On Friday afternoon the U.S. House of Representatives, under the control of democrats, voted 228-164 to decriminalize marijuana and expunge criminal records related to marijuana offenses. It was technically a bipartisan vote, with a humongous FIVE Republicans voting with the dems. BUT pot dreams may be up in smoke: it’s very unlikely it will pass […] More
Recreational use of marijuana became legal in Illinois last week and almost immediately ran into problems. It seems that while the stores that sell the weed are privately owned, the state was slow in approving cultivation centers to grow it. And after just five days, legal pot dispensaries were running out of product because the […] More
If you’re a fan of slavery reparations and legal weed, have I got the town for you. The wealthy Chicago suburb of Evanston has voted to funnel all proceeds from its coming weed dispensaries to a course-correcting cause. Rather than the city at large benefitting from the tax revenue, the dispensaries’ dough will be yielded to you, the residents…so long as […] More
California’s nickname has long been “The Golden State,” but it might be time to re-name it “The Land of Unintended Consequences.” The increasingly liberal state has already run into problems with its past choices, many of which seem great on paper — to the left, at least — until they’re actually put into practice. Sanctuary […] More
Chicago’s outgoing Democrat mayor, Rahm Emanuel, says the way to defuse the Windy City’s pension bomb is to legalize and tax marijuana and build a city-owned casino. Launching full force into growing vice in his city, Emanuel said that past politicians failed by making airy budgeting promises that were never fulfilled, Fox News reported. “Simply put, leaders […] More
Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) published an op-ed Tuesday urging federal lawmakers to legalize marijuana nationwide on the same day the first recreational marijuana shops in Massachusetts opened their doors to the public. From Breitbart: Kennedy, writing in an essay for Stat, said current federal laws on marijuana are “badly broken,” and advocated for the legalization of pot […] More
President Donald Trump told a gaggle of reporters Friday that he will “probably” support efforts by Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) to end the federal ban on marijuana in states that have legalized it. From Breitbart: “I support Sen. Gardner,” the president said before departing for the G-7 summit in Canada, as quoted by the Los […] More
People who use medical marijuana have higher rates of medical and non-medical prescription drug use — including pain relievers — than others, according to a new study. Researchers at Stanford University and University College Cork in Ireland analyzed more than 57,000 responses to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health to determine if medical […] More
Attorney General Jeff Sessions ended an Obama-era policy Thursday that discouraged federal prosecutions of marijuana use and sales in states where it has been legalized. Sessions is instead leaving it up to U.S. attorneys to decide to what extent they will enforce federal anti-marijuana laws. Many argue that habitual marijuana use is harmless and the […] More
Grandma got pulled over by a sheriff / Driving a jalopy full of weed… It all started Tuesday in Nebraska when York County Sheriff’s deputies allegedly spotted a Toyota Tacoma on Interstate 80 drifting over the center line and failing to signal, the York News Times reported. But after deputies pulled over 80-year-old Patrick Jiron and […] More
