Items tagged with US drug policy
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| 7 mayors want pot removed from federal list of illegal drugs [12.06.2018] | Mayors from seven U.S. cities in states with legal marijuana have formed a coalition to push for federal marijuana policy reform just days after Pres... |
| Senators introduce bipartisan bill to protect state laws on marijuana [07.06.2018] | Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) introduced a bipartisan bill that would allow states to regulate marijuana without federa... |
| Surge in young Americans using marijuana as first drug [17.05.2018] | The proportion of young people using marijuana as their first drug doubled in the 10 years from 2004, a US-based study has found. The government stud... |
| How do you move mountains of unwanted weed? [09.05.2018] | It turns out Oregonians are good at growing cannabis – too good. In February, state officials announced that 1.1m pounds of cannabis flower were logg... |
| How anti-marijuana Jeff Sessions became the best thing to happen to pot legalization [06.05.2018] | Jeff Sessions hates marijuana. He’s made that plain in multiple colorful quotes, from stating that “ good people don’t smoke marijuana ” to arguing t... |
| Supervised injection facilities are illegal in the United States [30.04.2018] | Several major cities are trying to open “ safe injection sites ” for drug abusers — even though they are technically illegal. With recent evidence th... |
| Liz Warren has high hopes for pot bill [29.04.2018] | U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has had “encouraging” conversations with Republican leadership over a bill she and Republican Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner a... |
| Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world [24.04.2018] | Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various pa... |
| Legal marijuana’s big moment [24.04.2018] | In Washington, evolution on the marijuana issue is proceeding at warp speed in political terms. John Boehner is just the latest in a string of notewo... |
| Canadian and U.S. pot firms cross borders to raise money in battle for dominance [22.04.2018] | As U.S. and Canadian government policies toward marijuana grow more divergent amid Canada's push for legalization, their stock exchanges have seen a ... |
| An opioid crisis foretold [21.04.2018] | Today’s opioid crisis is already the deadliest drug epidemic in American history. Opioid overdoses killed more than 45,000 people in the 12 months th... |
| Most banks won’t touch America’s legal pot industry [20.04.2018] | Providing banking services to pot-sellers is a risky endeavour. Despite being legal in one form or another in 29 states, marijuana is banned under th... |
| Schumer to introduce bill to decriminalize marijuana [19.04.2018] | Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said that he would introduce legislation to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, marking a sig... |
| U.S. has been quietly helping Mexico with new, high-tech ways to fight opium [15.04.2018] | In the past few opiate-soaked years, U.S. officials say, nearly all the heroin coursing through American cities has come from one place: Mexico. “The... |
| U.S. marijuana friends and foes cautious at signs of softer Trump [14.04.2018] | Both advocates and opponents of legalized marijuana reacted with caution to signs from the White House that growers in U.S. states where the drug is ... |
| Mexican states should start legalizing marijuana - tourism minister [12.04.2018] | Taking a lead from the United States, Mexico should allow states to begin legalizing marijuana while broader efforts are in limbo, Tourism minister E... |
| Massachusetts is the new testbed for cannabis legalization [10.04.2018] | For the past several years, Colorado, Washington and Oregon have served as the testbeds for policies governing state-legal cannabis markets. But now ... |
| Senate Foreign Affairs Cmte won’t have time to examine how cannabis bill will affect international treaties [09.04.2018] | The Senate committees are under a ‘tight timeline' to review the cannabis bill, and Conservatives say they could save major cannabis amendments for t... |
| Opioids prescribed less in states where medical marijuana legal, studies find [02.04.2018] | In one study, researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens, used data from Medicare Part D, a government-run prescription drug program for people... |
| Wall Street experiments with marijuana investments [01.04.2018] | More adventurous corners of Wall Street are experimenting with marijuana as an investment even though recreational use of the drug is illegal in New ... |
| The war on drugs breeds crafty traffickers [26.03.2018] | Politicians often escalate drug war rhetoric to show voters that they are doing something. But it is rare to ignore generations of lessons as Preside... |
| Trump calls for death penalties for drug dealers as focus of opioids plan [19.03.2018] | Donald Trump called for some drug dealers to receive the death penalty in a new opioids policy rollout. “We’re wasting our time if we don’t get tough... |
| Feds say 5 NYC doctors took bribes from drug maker to prescribe opioid [16.03.2018] | Five Manhattan doctors were paid more than $800,000 by a pharmaceutical company to prescribe a spray version of the highly potent and addictive opioi... |
| Sessions: US prosecutors won’t take on small-time pot cases [10.03.2018] | Federal prosecutors won’t take on small-time marijuana cases, despite the Justice Department’s decision to lift an Obama-era policy that discouraged ... |
| FDA is using 'bad science' by claiming kratom is an opioid [09.03.2018] | Last month, the Food the plant has been imported for years because of its popularity and safe use in Asia. |
| Overshadowed by the opioid crisis: A comeback by cocaine [05.03.2018] | The opioid epidemic just keeps getting worse, presenting challenges discussed at length at a White House summit last week. But opioids are not Americ... |
| Poppies, opium, and heroin [01.03.2018] | Poppy cultivation in Mexico and Colombia is part of a local economy geared almost exclusively toward the illegal market abroad: it is driven by deman... |
| Uruguay leads world in cannabis regulation but US law intrudes [28.02.2018] | Uruguay was the first country in the world to fully regulate the cannabis market and so break free from a global prohibitionist regime that has preva... |
| Tribes cut out of California pot market might grow their own [26.02.2018] | American Indian tribes that say they have been cut out of California's legal marijuana market have raised the possibility of going their own way by e... |
| Drugs should not be in the hands of organized crime [25.02.2018] | Drug overdoses are one of the leading causes of death in the United States and are contributing to decline in life expectancy. The opioid epidemic ha... |
| Let cities open safe injection sites [24.02.2018] | One of the most consistent patterns in the more than 64,000 deaths attributed to opioid and other drug overdoses in 2016 was that the victims’ last m... |
| Opioids and methamphetamine: a tale of two crises [24.02.2018] | The unchecked acceleration of opioid-related deaths in the USA is, by many measures, the worst of times. Prescriptions peaked in 2012 at more than 25... |
| Colombia’s two anti-coca strategies are at war with each other [20.02.2018] | The government’s “comprehensive programme for illicit crop substitution” (PNIS) aims to replace the coca with a profitable legal crop. The crop-subst... |
| Big US tobacco company buys stakes in Canadian cannabis growers, American hemp firm [09.02.2018] | A publicly traded U.S. tobacco company has bought controlling stakes in two Canadian marijuana producers and invested in a North Carolina hemp grower... |
| To cut drug deaths, city considers sanctioned places to shoot up [09.02.2018] | In 2016, the opioid epidemic claimed 1,374 lives in New York City. That’s roughly four drug overdose deaths each day. One death every seven hours. Ne... |
| Philadelphia aims to become first US city to legalize safe injection sites [06.02.2018] | Philadelphia officials are pushing an effort to make the city the first in the U.S. to allow drug users to shoot up at a medically supervised facilit... |
| Trump Treasury Secretary wants marijuana money in banks [06.02.2018] | The Trump administration's top fiscal official appeared to voice support for letting marijuana businesses store their profits in banks. "I assure you... |
| One month after Sessions marijuana memo, where do U.S. attorneys stand on legal weed [05.02.2018] | It’s been a month since U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memo, Obama-era Department of Justice guidance on enforcement of feder... |
| How the U.S. Government is profiting from keeping pot illegal [01.02.2018] | Because of the discrepancy between state and federal law, legal marijuana businesses are stuck paying twice as much as normal businesses – effective ... |
| Trump sees ‘carnage’ from America’s drug boom. But major cities are getting safer [28.01.2018] | The president and his attorney general have blamed the drug boom for “American carnage,” but the latest crime statistics suggest that the relationshi... |
| A huge step backward on opioids [24.01.2018] | The latest statistics on the overdose crisis -- roughly 64,000 deaths in the United States in 2016 -- also reveal that fentanyl and other synthetic o... |
| Could Sessions’ marijuana policy shift benefit the cannabis industry in 2018? [24.01.2018] | Uncertainty interjected into the cannabis industry earlier this month by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions could create new opportunities for the s... |
| Vermont becomes first state to legalize marijuana through legislature [23.01.2018] | Vermont, the "Green Mountain State," has become the first state to legalize marijuana by passing a law in the legislature rather than by use of a bal... |
| Why marijuana retailers can’t use banks [22.01.2018] | Nearly two-thirds of America’s states have legalised pot sales for certain uses, but the federal government still classifies marijuana as a Schedule ... |
| New York to look at legalizing recreational marijuana [18.01.2018] | New York will study whether it's plausible to legalize marijuana for recreational use as neighboring states move ahead with it, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ann... |
| The public really, really, really opposes current federal marijuana law [18.01.2018] | The overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to current federal marijuana law. That’s the big takeaway from a new poll conducted by Mason-Dixon... |
| Legal marijuana cuts violence says US study, as medical-use laws see crime fall [14.01.2018] | The introduction of medical marijuana laws has led to a sharp reduction in violent crime in US states that border Mexico, according to new research. ... |
| On the hunt for poppies In Mexico — America's biggest heroin supplier [14.01.2018] | Mexico's southwestern Guerrero state is now the top source of heroin for the American drug epidemic, which resulted in more than 64,000 overdose deat... |
| U.S. city mayors stand up for cannabis against Trump crackdown [12.01.2018] | City mayors in the two U.S. states with the oldest legal cannabis industries are leading the pushback against the Trump administration’s announcement... |
| Colorado’s Senators tell U.S. Treasury: Don’t touch marijuana banking [11.01.2018] | U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner of Colorado have asked the U.S. Treasury to keep in place Obama-era rules that allow banks to serve mariju... |
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