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Cocaine is “not worse than whiskey,” Colombia’s president says, while arguing that cartels could be “easily dismantled” if the drug was legalized and “sold like wine.” During an hours-long government meeting on Wednesday, President Gustavo Petro claimed that cocaine is stigmatized and criminalized “because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse […]
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A GOP congressman says it’s “definitely” time to have a talk with President Donald Trump’s pick for head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to convince him that “marijuana is harmful” and that the way to make Americans healthy is by “limiting” its use. After Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was cleared […]
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) this week emphasized a survey result showing that more than half (55 percent) of Texans want the state to rein its largely unregulated market for hemp-derived THC. At the same time, however, he seemed to ignore the survey’s other findings: that even more Texans want the state to legalize […]
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Lawmakers in Arkansas advanced legislation on Wednesday that would set aside revenue from medical marijuana taxes to pay for free breakfast for students. The bill, SB 59, would supplement federal free and reduced-price meal funds with money from a state Food Insecurity Fund, paid for by cannabis taxes as well as private grants and money […]
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U.S. senators on both sides of the aisle addressed the lack of banking access for the marijuana industry at a committee hearing on Wednesday, with one GOP member suggesting that the issue warrants a broader examination of federal cannabis policies. Meanwhile, a separate House committee also met to discuss banking issues, where the marijuana industry’s […]
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