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Fact Checking Misleading Claims that California’s Cannabis Industry Is Suffering→
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Since late 2021, cannabis powerbrokers have unleashed a no-holds-barred offensive in hopes of extracting reduced taxes and regulation from local and state elected officials.
Read MoreDoes marijuana legalization work? The answer is a resounding No.→
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In a powerful review of how Colorado is doing since legalizing marijuana for medical use in 2009 and for recreational use in 2014, David Murray of the Hudson Institute suggests the answer is a resounding “No.”
Read MoreA founding father of legal pot reveals regrets→
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I wish I could be proud of what we created, but I’m not. The outcome of 64 is shameful, hurts people, and Colorado is not “safer.”
Read MoreNew Colorado Report Outlines Drastic Increases in Harms to Public Health & Safety
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Today, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) released their bi-annual “Monitoring Health Concerns Related to Marijuana in Colorado” report. The report finds there have been significant increases in past-month and daily or near-daily use among adults, marijuana-impaired driving, exposures in children under the age of five, and use of high potency forms of the drug among high school students.
Read MoreThe True Cost of Marijuana: A Colorado Town That Went All-In→
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Emergency room doctors in Pueblo see a different side of the equation and say the deleterious effects of cannabis legalization far outstrip any benefits.
Read MoreThe Marijuana Lobby Spends Big on Bills Americans Don't Want→
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There has been a big push to commercialize and legalize marijuana lately. And while advocates insist this push derives from a desire to increase racial equality and social justice, the real reason is far more cynical: the almighty dollar.
Read MoreFake Businesses Are Fooling Real Banks Into Processing Online Drug Purchases→
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Fraudsters are setting up fake online businesses to process payments for drugs and other illegal goods. Middlemen are aiding them—sometimes accidentally, sometimes not.
Read MoreLegalizing marijuana is a step backwards for social justice→
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When it comes to marijuana commercialization, the new robber barons have arrived. They are wealthy investors in freshly tailored suits that pay lip service to social justice while putting marijuana stores on every street corner in Black communities.
Read MoreCash from cannabis companies creates conflicted researchers→
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Universities in both Canada and the United States have recently accepted multi-million-dollar donations from the cannabis industry.
Read MoreSen. Rice: Legalizing pot won’t stop social injustice in the black and brown community→
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When I hear my colleagues pushing for legalization “in the name of social justice,” I can’t apologize for my instinct to suspect that it’s really about helping political friends profit from an industry that should not be allowed a foothold in our state.
Read MoreStop the "green rush"→
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What I learned is that just because prohibition failed, it does not mean legalization is succeeding. Few of the most significant benefits legalization advocates promised were materializing. The thirst for profit and the interests of powerful corporations were swiftly sidelining small-scale producers and retailers, even as we filmed. The need to provide justice to the victims of the war on drugs has been lost in the “green rush.” It was the same old story: powerful corporate interests coopt a nominally progressive social movement and warp it to their own benefit.
Read MoreLegalizing pot is proving to be a public-health disaster→
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It’s becoming increasingly obvious that legalizing marijuana consumption was a colossal public-health blunder.
Read MoreLuke Niforatos: The pot industry's got lots of tricks -- Sens. McConnell, Shelby, please don't fall for them→
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Across the country, lobbyists for the marijuana industry, backed by Big Tobacco, Big Alcohol, and pharma investors, have focused much of their attention on getting members of Congress to back today’s highly potent legal weed under the guise of social justice to create a new addiction-for-profit industry.
Read MoreAfter 16 Months of “Legal” Pot In Californian Is Anything Working?
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Proposition 64 (November 2016) promised voters in California several key things in exchange for a vote to “legalize”. Have any of those promises been kept?
Read MoreCalifornia lawmakers already want to roll back a key promise of marijuana legalization→
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That guarantee of local control was a central promise of the proposition. But now, some legislators want to reverse it and force local governments to accept pot stores against their will. It’s an unfair bait-and-switch tactic that should not be approved.
Read MoreForcing California cities to allow marijuana sales is ignoring the will of voters→
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California’s budding cannabis industry isn’t exactly blossoming. It’s having trouble sprouting. So a San Francisco legislator has some unique ideas.
Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting, influential chairman of the budget committee, wants the state to break a promise made to voters in 2016 when they approved Proposition 64 to legalize non-medical use of marijuana.
Read More‘Getting Worse, Not Better’: Illegal Pot Market Booming in California Despite Legalization→
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It’s been a little more than a year since California legalized marijuana — the largest such experiment in the United States — but law enforcement officials say the unlicensed, illegal market is still thriving and in some areas has even expanded.
Read MoreThe Marijuana Delusion→
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States rush to legalize recreational pot, even as evidence of its harms grows.
Read MoreLegal? Illegal? Some players still work both sides of state marijuana industry→
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During the 21 years that California’s multibillion-dollar unregulated medical marijuana market thrived, cannabis operators learned to create elaborate schemes to disguise their connections to unlicensed shops. And now that some operators are also tied to valuable licensed businesses, Montes said, double dippers have become even more careful about burying their identities.
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