![Cannabis Caucus Reps. Jared Polis [left] (CO-02), Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Don Young (AK-At Large) and Dana Rohrabacher [right]](https://www.liwts.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Cannabis-Caucus-669x272.jpg)
From an outsider’s perspective, the cannabis community in the United States is right now just about the luckiest in the entire world. They might not have gone quite so far as Uruguay, but the pot policy reforms rolled out of the last few months have been both historic and life-changing for millions. It’s the dawn [...]
The US government continues to flex its bureaucratic muscle and engage in the kind of rhetoric that really isn’t doing anyone any favours. You wouldn’t expect hardcore critics like Attorney General Jeff Sessions to suddenly turn around and throw his weight behind cannabis legalization, but given the facts on the table, you’d also think it [...]
We recently reported on the way in which leading politicians in Australia were pushing for the country’s medical cannabis program to be stepped up a gear, in order to ensure that those in urgent need would not be forced to continue waiting in vain. Despite the fact that the country currently has a very weak [...]
Despite on-going efforts by local and national governments, the war on opioid addiction and abuse in the United States is failing. The statistics are no less than shocking – approximate 90 Americans die every single day from opioid overdoses. Various regions have experimented with the implementation of various measures and programs to help bring things [...]
Australia Seeks Overseas Supplier for Medical Pot There’s been further activity on the other side of the world as Australia steps closer towards an era of widely available medical cannabis. Though things are already happening…albeit at a painfully slow pace…Labor leader Bill Shorten is now pushing the government to speed things up and make [...]
Once again, Donald Trump has held the kind of press conference that resulted in most of those in attendance left scratching their heads a little. He’s become known for his somewhat rambling and confusing speeches as of late – particularly those aimed at the press. In this instance though, he was introducing the world to [...]
The subject as to additional north American States legalizing recreational and/or medical cannabis is more a case of when, rather than if. Following the monumental shift in US cannabis policy on the back of the November 2016 ballots, it is now seen as something of an inevitability that further states will head in the same [...]
Yet another prominent official has highlighted the potential benefit and importance of considering a more liberal drug policy for an entire country. As it stands, Brazil continues to find itself gripped by a tidal wave of violent crime on the part of drug gangs that are becoming increasingly powerful and dangerous. According to Justice Roberto [...]
A growing number of regions and countries on a global basis are transforming long-standing cannabis policies for the better. In the vast majority of instances, it is medical marijuana that is taking centre stage. With such overwhelming evidence highlighting the benefits of medicinal cannabis for a wide variety of conditions, lawmakers are no longer able to [...]
To say that Donald Trump’s first few weeks in office have been both memorable and defining would be something of an understatement. Just when you think he’s taken his rather extreme measures as far as he’s going to, he goes and rolls out a travel ban that outrages much of the civilised world. Suffice to [...]
