Will wine tasters be set off their cabernet sauvignon should Napa County decide to allow farmers to legally grow marijuana? Local vineyard industry leaders told the Napa County Board of Supervisors that they would at a meeting on Tuesday. In response, the board decided to send the issue of local pot …

Despite prohibitionists' often-expressed fears that legalization would lead more young people to use marijuana, new federal data released on Aug. 20, 2019, show no such trend.Reports of past-month cannabis use among those 12-17 remained stable from 2017 to 2018 — and they're significantly lower than …

In one of the latest signs that the federal government is recognizing the reality of the marijuana legalization movement’s continued success, a top health agency released an extensive list of cannabis-related research objectives it hopes to fund.The notice, published on Wednesday, notes the rapid ev …

A federal financial agency released updated guidelines on banking in the hemp industry on Monday, following up on requests from multiple lawmakers to provide clarity on the issue.The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) said in its interim guidance that providing banking services to hemp busi …

Bernie Sanders wants to legalize cannabis if he is elected president. And he isn’t going to wait on Congress to do it.The presidential hopeful said this week that he would use an executive order to end the federal prohibition on pot, reiterating his long-standing opposition to the ban.“When I ran fo …

Two new studies find that opioid-related deaths decline when states legalize access to marijuana. In fact, when adult-use cannabis laws are in place, the rate of opioid overdoses declines by at least 20%.Both papers, published in the journal Economic Inquiry, not only show the impact of passing such …