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Supreme Court opinion PDF: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-1234_g2bh.pdf Supreme Court rule unanimous in US v. Hemani. They side with Texas man Ali Hemani (occasional marijuana user). Court say federal law that ban “unlawful drug users” from owning guns cannot apply to him because it go against Second Amendment. Law still exist but government cannot automatically disarm people who …
The U.S. Supreme Court will announce on December 15 whether it will hear a major challenge to federal marijuana bans brought by state-licensed cannabis companies, a decision that could force a reckoning between national law and the patchwork of state-legal markets. The justices are slated to discuss the petition in Canna Provisions Inc. v. Garland …
ADDITIONALLY — According to (R-OK) Senator James Lankford, Chinese ORGANIZATIONS are buying up HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS (100,000+) of Acres in land and bringing in LABOR TRAFFICKING and HUMAN TRAFFICKING into Oklahoma in order to work these GROW OPERATIONS. pic.twitter.com/h3oL4ivXOP — livefreeopinion (@livefreeopinion) March 19, 2025
Despite support from Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump, just 55.9% of the roughly 10.6 million votes cast for Amendment 3 were in favor of its passage. Because the Sunshine State’s constitution needs to be amended to legalize adult-use weed, a 60% “yes” vote would have been necessary for it to pass. It’s undoubtedly a …
Recent data shows that over 4.5 million Americans aged 18-25 use marijuana daily or nearly daily. Among these users, about one-third experience symptoms of cannabis use disorder, with 16.6% reporting significant signs of dependence. This highlights concerns about the increasing prevalence of cannabis-related issues among young adults. https://x.com/EdwardConard/status/1842269729701900617 https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/01/04/samhsa-announces-national-survey-drug-use-health-results-detailing-mental-illness-substance-use-levels-2021.html https://www.cdc.gov/cannabis/health-effects/cannabis-use-disorder.html https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/reports/rpt42731/2022-nsduh-main-highlights.pdf h/t Perfect_Alarm_2141
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Customers lined up at dispensaries across Ohio on Tuesday for the first day of recreational marijuana sales in the state. Nearly 100 medical marijuana dispensaries were authorized to begin selling recreational marijuana to adults after receiving operating certificates this week from the state’s Division of Cannabis Control. Jeffrey Reide camped out in his …
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in a historic shift in generations of US drug policy. A proposed rule sent to the federal register recognizes the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledges it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most …
Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed. We must continue to change our nation’s approach to marijuana while reforming the justice system so it finally lives up to its name. pic.twitter.com/AJFmexf8a3 — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 20, 2024 @TulsiGabbard calling out the former top cop of California for incarcerating people who smoked …
Rats have seemingly discovered a taste for the high life at New Orleans’ police headquarters and now stand accused of raiding the evidence room to munch their way through confiscated drugs. New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick told a council committee meeting on Monday: ‘The rats are eating our marijuana. They’re all high’. Not only …
via Zerohedge: Muckraker.com has obtained never-before-seen undercover footage from inside three of New York’s secret illegal alien compounds, at The ROW NYC, Randall’s Island, and Floyd Bennett Field. The footage includes conversations with security guards who speak of stabbings, drugs, deaths, and other events inside these facilities. It also includes interviews with numerous illegal aliens …
2 minute 33 seconds video shows an incredible calming of a man with Parkinson’s h/t Miles2Go
Using marijuana regularly is ‘strongly’ linked to heart failure and stroke, two major studies suggest. One paper that tracked 160,000 adults over 54 years old for four years found those who smoked marijuana daily had a 34 percent higher risk of heart failure. And in a second, researchers found hospitalized people over 65 years old …
The Department of Justice (DOJ) wants the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to take up new gun cases. This week, DOJ filed petitions for the Court to take up two cases. One case, United States v. Daniels, deals with whether a marijuana user can be barred from possessing guns. The other, Garland v. Range, deals …
This bill sends a message to regulators that they should never tell a bank to shut down an account because they don’t like the type of business that the bank is holding that account for. So that’s a second piece of this bill, section 10, is saying to regulators, ‘you are not moral police.’ If …
The HHS is recommending cannabis to be moved from Schedule 1 to Schedule III. This will remove the 280E tax burden on the US marijuana companies and allow for up-listing to the NYSE and NASDAQ. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-30/hhs-calls-for-moving-marijuana-to-lower-risk-us-drug-category?leadSource=reddit_wall https://www.marijuanamoment.net/top-federal-health-agency-says-marijuana-should-be-moved-to-schedule-iii-in-historic-recommendation-to-dea/ Important to note that it’s not a surefire thing that it’ll be rescheduled to III. This is …
NEW – Secret Service admits it twice found marijuana at White House — months before cocaine discovery, NY Post reports — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) July 14, 2023 https://twitter.com/_/status/1679930344244428808 https://twitter.com/_/status/1679937681478828042 h/t DOORBERT