Tag: Marijuana
Marijuana with a mission: Brother David’s quest to turn the cannabis...
"We need to promote Sun+Earth and other high-bar standards—because it’s best for the Earth in this age of climate crisis, and produces the cleanest, greenest and most ethical cannabis possible.”
San Francisco erases more than 8,000 marijuana-related convictions
District Attorney George Gascón partnered with Code for America to use a technological approach to help identify eligible cases, some going back decades.
Where there’s smoke, there’s Boehner
But the crassness of this Boehner cannabis pitch somehow symbolizes, to me anyway, how low too many of our craven, so-called public servants are willing to stoop for an almighty buck once they’re out of office.
Marijuana legalization continues to be a statewide issue after midterm elections
"Our caution has to do with the particular way marijuana legalization has occurred in the U.S.: at the ballot box."
Marijuana is on the ballot in four states, but legalization may...
Strong public support and successive waves of state-level legalization in election years has led many policy analysts to argue that marijuana has reached a tipping point in the United States.
Canada becomes second country to legalize recreational marijuana at federal level
"This is a historic step forward for the movement to end marijuana prohibition."
Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, June 20, 2018
U.S. withdraws from Human Rights Council, Canada legalizes recreational marijuana, first ladies unite against family separation at the border, and more.
More seeds for transformation planted this week
The U.S.’ acts against people and the planet make the era of transformation more likely.
Marijuana is literally saving lives in Colorado
The study found that after Colorado implemented their new recreational marijuana law, opioid-related deaths fell by 6.5 percent in the following two years.
Sen. Cory Booker just introduced a bill that could legalize marijuana...
Booker will face stiff opposition in Congress, where most members remain publicly opposed to legalization.
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NOAA: 2025 Atlantic hurricane season predicted to be above normal with 13 to 19...
NOAA predicts a 60 percent chance of it being “above normal,” a 30 percent chance of it being near normal and a 10 percent chance that it will be below normal.
No shelter left as Israeli forces displace 180,000 Palestinians in ten days
A renewed wave of Israeli bombings and ground offensives has displaced 180,000 people in 10 days, with schools, homes, and designated “safe zones” turned into mass graves—many funded by U.S. weapons and shielded by diplomatic silence.
Images of Gaza’s starving babies have gone round the world. This is what malnutrition...
Between April 2025 and March 2026, there will be 71,000 cases of acute malnutrition among children under five, including 14,100 severe cases.
The forgotten 10 billion lives: A tale of suffering, survival, and the fight to...
Photographs, storytelling, poetry, and well-documented research unveil the immense suffering, ecological devastation, worker exploitation, and economic injustice caused by the animal agricultural industry.
Beyond revoking the New Deal, MAGA Trumpism reignites the Civil War, thus must defame...
This herd of minority deplorables defines a gang of spoiled brats, outraged whenever told NO! What extremist doesn’t want power they think will serve selfish, private, undemocratic needs, values and interests?