LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grant M. Deltz A Vietnam War Veteren and two other Kentuckians are coming together to file a lawsuit to overturn a ban on medical marijuana in Kentucky. The argument being made by Danny Belcher and his counterparts is that the ban is contradictory to the Kentucky Constitution’s protections on individual liberties…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr The Democratic governor of Pennsylvania is “disturbed” by Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ attempt to roll back protections for state medical marijuana laws and threatened legal action in a letter Thursday. Gov. Tom Wolf is reacting to a request from Sessions to Congress to eliminate a rule barring…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jonah Bennett In a rare White House briefing, Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin confirmed Wednesday that he is open to the idea of allowing veterans to have access to medical marijuana. Shulkin said the department is fully open to looking into any treatment that could help veterans,…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Steve Birr Medical marijuana legalization is causing patients to ditch their prescription pills for pot, a trend researchers say could save Medicaid more than $1 billion if legalization is implemented federally. A recent study published in Health Affairs shows marijuana legalization is sparking a decline in prescription medications under…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Joe Klare On election night last November, voters in four states approved the legalization of marijuana for use by all adults. They were added to a list of 4 states that already allow retail sales of recreational marijuana: Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Colorado. One of the big selling points…
By Joe Klare What was sure to be a historic election night for marijuana law reform turned out to be almost perfect. Nine states had either recreational legalization or medical legalization on their statewide ballots and voters in 8 of those states approved legalization measures. Legalization for everyone aged 21 years or older passed in…
By Joe Klare In an extensive new piece from ESPN, former NFL player Eugene Monroe says marijuana helped him get away from what was really hurting him: football. Monroe has already made a name for himself by being very vocal about his preferred use of medical marijuana and his disdain for the NFL’s policy that…
By Joe Klare Yesterday, the Arkansas Supreme Court ended any chance of two separate medical marijuana being on the statewide ballot on November 8. Arkansas voters would have seen Issue 6 and Issue 7 side by side on their ballots, with Issue 7 being the more robust of the two, allowing for many more qualifying…
By Joe Klare The American Legion, which has a membership of over 2 million U.S. military veterans, recently called for the rescheduling of cannabis at their national convention in Cincinnati, OH. The resolution that was passed called on the U.S. Congress to “amend legislation to remove marijuana from schedule I and reclassify it in a category…
by Joe Klare “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” – 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution Yeah, about that. Yesterday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rocked the medical cannabis community by upholding…