Each year the Marijuana Policy Project, or MPP, publishes a list of states that will receive planning, execution and fundraising assistance from the organization for the purpose of reforming marijuana laws. In 2014 MPP announced the long-term goal of working toward marijuana legalization in Texas by 2019. This year’s announcement, however, …
Anyone that lived within 100 miles of the Florida state line in 2014 knows what a pivotal roll police unions, most notably the Florida Sheriffs Association, played in the defeat of the ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana in the last hours of the campaign. Poll results in …
The Raw Story reports that Republican governors in Texas and Louisiana have issued statements softening their stance on marijuana use and punishment. On Thursday, Texas Governor Rick Perry told an international panel on drug legalization at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that “I have begun to …
