
The Desperate Lies of Josh Marquis, Part I: The Prison “Easter Egg”
You have to feel some sympathy for Josh Marquis. By all accounts, he’s a decent man and a good district attorney for Clatsop County. But,
You have to feel some sympathy for Josh Marquis. By all accounts, he’s a decent man and a good district attorney for Clatsop County. But,
You may have read about how the “quarterback of the anti-legalization movement”, Kevin Sabet, is bringing his road show to Oregon on the taxpayer’s dime
As expected, the prison-industrial complex isn’t going to allow the repeal of cannabis prohibition without a fight as the Oregon State Sheriff’s Association (likely backed
Now that Oregon and Washington DC have joined Alaska as the three states to vote in the 2014 election for marijuana reform, I thought it
Oregon’s plan to legalize recreational marijuana has now been formally named Measure 91 by the Secretary of State’s office. It is well known that Millennials support marijuana
Now that Oregon’s legalization is officially Initiative 91 on the November ballot, Clatsop County District Attorney Josh Marquis has taken to the media to offer
A new study compiled by ECONorthwest has predicted that Oregon will reap $38.5 million in marijuana tax revenue in the first fiscal year of legalization. The
The Obama Administration has pushed back hard against Congress’s attempt to gut the recently-passed marijuana decriminalization law in Washington, DC. The Office of Management and Budget
Two retired Multnomah County, Oregon, prosecutors have come out in our state’s largest newspaper against the legalization of marijuana proposed for the November ballot by New Approach
“Twenty dollars a gram? Ain’t no way I’m spending five hundred and sixty dollars per ounce on weed!” My friend was reading the coverage of
The head of Colorado NORML, Rachel Gillette, is fighting mad about the way the federal government is discriminating against legal marijuana businesses, and now she’s
We are six months into Colorado’s rollout of legalized recreational marijuana markets and the results have been remarkable. From over $27 million in marijuana tax
Twenty-two states have medical marijuana laws, with Florida poised this November to become the 23rd and the second-largest market after California. Two states have legalized recreational
At a convention this month in Law Vegas, regulators from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that casinos, like banks, are subject to the
Since the premiere of Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s documentary “Weed” back in August, the general public has quickly come to understand the miraculous healing power of
This weekend in Fort Worth, Texas, the 2nd Annual Texas Regional NORML Conference was held. Also in Fort Worth this weekend, just a few blocks
I’m covering the Marijuana Business Association Canna Business & The Law seminar in Seattle. On the second panel, “Managing Your Marijuana Business Money”, Bob Schweigert
The ban on industrial hemp has long been the most glaringly senseless prohibition in America. Nearly everybody knows that hemp is “marijuana’s sober cousin”, that
Remember all those public service ads and D.A.R.E. classes that warned about how smoking pot was going to make you lethargic, apathetic, and unable to
As marijuana was becoming legal in Colorado, one man loudly campaigned against it. His name is Dr. Christian Thurstone and he is one of the
The press release (https://rad-r.us/openvape) is a couple of weeks old, but I am still stunned by the triumphant declaration by a maker of cannabis vaporizer
Once again, my latest writing on the state of Washington medical marijuana has brought out the chorus of howler monkeys, flinging their poo and screeching about how
A Missouri State Representative named Bill Lant is a Republican who represents Missouri’s 159th District. It’s a small, rural district dominated, if you can call
On Monday, my Congressman, Earl Blumenauer, announced on Huffington Post Live that marijuana prohibition is “game over in less than five years.” Rep. Blumenauer pointed out that “throughout
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