legal marijuana
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Legalize It, But Make It Equitable: Black Lawmakers in New York Fight for Economic Parity in Cannabis Bill
A push to legalize marijuana in New York may stall out this year, as black lawmakers demand the state do right by African American communities, who have been disproportionately impacted by draconian drug laws. While legalization could ensure black and Latinx people are no longer targeted for marijuana offenses, legalization should also provide a pathway…
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Bong-Jour: John Boehner Gets Brand-New, Now Supports Cannabis
File this under “Stories I never thought I’d be writing in my journalism career.” Former House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, was previously opposed to any and all types of marijuana reform when he served in the U.S. Congress. He vocally opposed marijuana legalization, having said in 2011 that he was “unalterably opposed”…
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The Hood Incubator: Oakland, Calif., Organization Empowers Black Communities to Take Ownership of Cannabis Industry [Retracted]
RETRACTED (6/12/18): This story has been removed because we have discovered it was in breach of our editorial standards. If you’d like to know more, you can read an editor’s note here. A cached version of the story is available here for transparency.
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Black People Don’t Want ‘the Chronic’ in Compton, Calif.
Anyone who has listened to or owned a copy of Dr. Dre’s iconic The Chronic or 2001 album, or anything by N.W.A, knows that Compton, Calif., is the home of West Coast gangsta rap. Dre and company put Compton on the map, along with other acts such as DJ Quik—and, more recently, Kendrick Lamar. But…
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I Bought Legal Recreational Weed in California for the 1st Time
Like most Californians, I have been waiting for the day I could walk into a dispensary and buy marijuana without the required medical recommendation. Mine expired nearly four years ago, and I have been relying on other means to get my stash as of late. On Jan. 1, weed went mainstream in my state, but…
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Raise Your Hand if You Smoke Weed!
While on vacation in California recently, I smoked weed in front of my mom for the first time. Scratch that. I didn’t smoke weed in front of her. What I actually did was whip out a joint and tell her I was going to smoke it in her bathroom, where she regularly smokes her cigarettes…
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Iconic Hollywood Sign Defaced to Read ‘Hollyweed’
A creative prankster changed the iconic ”Hollywood” sign over Los Angeles by manipulating it to read “Hollyweed,” CNN reports. The vandal used tarps to change the O’s in the sign to E’s. He (police think the perpetrator is probably a man) was caught on security-camera footage between midnight and 2 a.m. local time Sunday, but…
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Cops Raid 81-Year-Old Mass. Woman's Garden for 1 Marijuana Plant
Margaret Holcomb is an 81-year-old woman from Amherst, Mass., who suffers from typical ailments of old age: glaucoma, arthritis and insomnia. Because of the difficulty in obtaining a medical-marijuana card and the cost of traveling to a dispensary in the next town to obtain marijuana, she decided to grow her own plant in her garden,…
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Damian Marley Is Turning Calif. Prison Into Pot Farm
Damian Marley is turning a California prison that formerly housed nonviolent drug offenders into a cannabis-cultivation facility. Marley, 38, along with his business partner Ocean Grown Extracts, will be converting the 77,000-square-foot Claremont Custody Center into a farm that will grow medicinal marijuana for state dispensaries, Billboard reports. “Many people sacrificed so much for the…