Category: Federal
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Quick Hit: Vetting Weed Smokers, Using Cannabis To Make Up For Budget Shortfalls
Two stories from the past week represent the strange dance politicians on either side of the aisle are doing when it comes to cannabis. First, as Marijuana Moment reported, the Trump administration, in an attempt to gather famous faces for a series of public service announcements surrounding its non-existent approach to reducing the devastation of…
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Following Cannabis Legalization Wave, MORE Act Will Finally Get a Vote
Less than a week after an election that expanded cannabis legalization with voters in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, South Dakota all approving ballot measures (not to mention Oregon voting to decriminalize all drugs), the Democrat-controlled Congress has announced they will vote on The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (MORE) next month. The MORE Act…
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Quick Hit: 68% of Americans Now Support Cannabis Legalization
In news to no one who reads The Outlaw Report but worth noting anyway: The majority of people support cannabis legalization. See, according to the most recent Gallup poll, a whopping 68% of Americans support the legalization of cannabis. That is up slightly from last year’s polling results where 66% of Americans supported legalization and…
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Quick Hit: DEA Uses the Postal Service To Promote Drug Abstinence
While the Trump administration has no interest in even addressing the Covid-19 pandemic, his Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is offering up an equally feckless response to drugs in America: Just don’t do it. Last week, in a typically Trumpian collaboration, the DEA, Miss America 2020 Camille Schrier, and the United States Postal Service Trump has…
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Episode 10: 2020 Elections Special
For this special episode of The Outlaw Report, Scott is joined by Mike Liszewski, one of the foremost experts on Capitol Hill on cannabis law and policy and more broadly, drug policy reform. They preview the 2020 elections and what wins for either party at the Presidential and Congressional levels would mean for cannabis in…
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Quick Hit: Can Kamala Harris Convince a Legalization-Averse Biden?
You likely tuned into Sunday night’s episode of 60 Minutes to see President Donald Trump snipe and grumble at reporter Lesley Stahl and ultimately, get up and leave early because he claimed the questions were “unfair.” We have seen this all before with our man child of a president. What viewers might have also caught…
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Quick Hit: Dispensaries and Their Effect on Crime, Explored
The Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) recently released a memo titled, “Medical Marijuana Dispensaries and Their Effect on Crime” which explored the claims “that medical marijuana dispensaries will lead to increased crime rates in surrounding areas.” What the report shows is that dispensaries do not correlate with increases in crime: “These studies suggest that dispensaries are…
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Episode 08: Outdoor Grows, Racial Woes, and Congressional Nos
In the latest episode of The Outlaw Report podcast, host Scott Cecil talks to Outlaw Report writers Brandon Soderberg and for the first time, newcomer to the site Shabnam Danesh. The three discuss the latest developments (or lack thereof) pertaining to the MORE Act, Shabnam’s fascinating article about the environmental benefits to outdoor cannabis growing,…
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Federal Court Of Special Appeals Rules in Favor Of Virginia Truck Driver With Weed In His Shoe
Earlier this month, The United States Court of Special Appeals Fourth Circuit in the Eastern District of Virginia issued a ruling in favor of a truck driver stopped for not having the proper permit and also charged with cannabis possession. The ruling came down on September 11, and explained why Jaison Feliciana, driving a bakery…
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The Outlaw Report Podcast Episode 07: Anacostia Organics’ Linda Mercado Greene and MORE Act Fallout
We have an especially in-depth episode of The Outlaw Report this week, featuring host Scott Cecil in conversation with Linda Mercado Greene of Anacostia Organics. But before that, The Outlaw Report’s Brandon Soderberg talks—and rants—about the Democrats kicking the can on the The MORE Act and after the talk with Greene, Scott and Brandon also…
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House Vote on MORE Act Postponed Until After the Election
The House of Representatives decided to delay a planned vote on landmark cannabis legislation The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act (MORE) until after the election, citing the need to pass a Covid-19 relief package beforehand and concern that voting on a cannabis bill could be a political liability before the November election. Under the…
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Quick Hit: Documentary ‘CBD Nation’ Now Streaming
Back in July, The Outlaw Report caught readers up with Rylie Maedler, a 14 year-old CEO who is best known for her and her family’s work years ago tirelessly fighting in Delaware to allow minors access to cannabis. When Maedler was seven, she was diagnosed with a degenerative bone disease that could result in facial…