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Opponents of adult-use legalization spent years warning that legal cannabis would drive teen marijuana use higher. More than a decade later, CDC, SAMHSA, and Monitoring the Future data show that the broad national surge never arrived, even as adult use increased and legal markets spread.
A Michigan cannabis grower won nearly $31.8 million after a jury found its buyer breached a state-legal marijuana supply agreement. Then the Sixth Circuit erased the judgment, ruling that federal courts cannot enforce a contract requiring conduct federal law still treats as illegal.
A federal judge allowed part of Hesham Alkhulaqi’s lawsuit against Madison County to continue after officers allegedly let his hemp inventory pass one traffic stop, then seized it four days later. The case challenges whether police training, drug-detection dogs and roadside field tests can reliably distinguish federally legal hemp from illegal marijuana.
Switzerland cannabis pilots are testing regulated pharmacy access against prohibition’s warnings. New SCRIPT interim results found no increase in consumption frequency among regular adult users and signs of lower-risk consumption, while a separate one-year pharmacy study found no mental-health deterioration. Pot Culture Magazine examines what the evidence says, and what it does not prove.
Houston says low-level marijuana is not a police priority, but HPD records reportedly show misdemeanor marijuana arrests jumping from 29 to 405 in the same eight-month period. As voters prepare to decide the Houston Freedom Act on November 3, the city owes the public more than a slogan about priorities.
Filed Under: Drug War, Built for Television Seven deputies entered a Kansas family’s home and searched it for more than two hours. What sent them there was stranger than anything they found. It was a chilly April morning in Leawood, Kansas, an affluent suburb of Kansas City, when seven Johnson County sheriff’s deputies converged on... Continue Reading →