Trump administration abandons crackdown on legal marijuana. Trump and Gardner strike deal on legalized marijuana ending nomination standoff. Trump to support major marijuana legislation. John Boehner just came out for marijuana reform.
Maine Senate signs off on legal marijuana sales in state. Attleboro embraces its place on the Rhode Island state line. Connecticut mayor: Legalize pot to create jobs, add revenue.
Cuomo lays groundwork for legalizing New York marijuana. Cuomo and de Blasio just say no to New York recreational marijuana. Cynthia Nixon puts legalizing marijuana front and center of New York campaign. Jersey City marijuana plan.
California not meeting revenue projections for commercial cannabis, analyst says. California slow to accept Prop. 64. Challenges mount to growing legal marijuana outdoors in Sonoma Co. California. Colorado restaurant workers most likely to use legal weed. Deschutes Co. Oregon wants to increase marijuana enforcement.
Utah officials concerned about marijuana shop 3 miles from border.
Celebs are jumping on the marijuana brand wagon. Legal marijuana could soon be a bigger market than soda. Hewlett Packard finds an opportunity in the marijuana industry.
The US and Canada have very different legal-marijuana banking systems. Legalizing Canada weed will change little. Canada to measure marijuana use by testing sewage.
Is anything happening on the world front? As more and more countries legalize marijuana, wholly or partly, the prohibition stance encoded in the UN conventions has become obsolete. So either that part of the system just becomes a dead letter, which is awkward for the parts that everybody wants to keep, as on heroin; or the conventions are overhauled to reflect modern policy. If the USA had a professional arm of government handling international relations – call it in the "Ministry of Foreign Affairs", or nostalgically the "Department of State" – it could be active in this effort. As things are, we depend on Portugal and Uruguay to take the lead. Or maybe there will be a Worthwhile Canadian Initiative.