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March 20, 2024
Driving While High
Blood-alcohol tests often aren't really conclusive when it comes to determining whether a person is too impaired to drive. Many people who are over the legal limit are probably perfectly fine to drive...
February 7, 2024
Democrats vs. Republicans on Cannabis Reform
Navigating the partisan politics of cannabis can be challenging because there are Republicans and Democrats on both sides of most reform initiatives. That makes cannabis politics almost unique...
January 23, 2024
Cannabis Enforcement
From one angle, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s United Cannabis Enforcement Task Force has been effective. Last week it announced that in the task force’s first...
January 10, 2024
Concerns Raised About Government Surveillance Program
Just over 10 years ago, reporting by The New York Times and ABC News revealed that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration had for several years been collecting billions of American phone records. The government was paying AT&T to do the work.
December 27, 2023
No American Cannabis Industry
alifornia’s cannabis industry is in rough shape for a variety of reasons: high taxes and the refusal of many local governments to issue licenses being the top two. So it seemed a little weird to see a headline...
December 13, 2023
Biden Asked to Reschedule Cannabis
Last week the governors of six states sent a letter to President Biden asking him to reschedule cannabis to Schedule III by the end of the year, meaning...
November 15, 2023
The Beatles and Pot, the Inspiration Behind Some Popular Songs
The release last week of the Beatles’ last song, “Now and Then,” inspired the lifestyle platform The Fresh Toast, which covers pot culture, to...
November 1, 2023
Trick or Treat?
Happy Halloween, your yearly reminder that no matter how normal cannabis becomes as legalization and popular acceptance grows across the land, there will always...