Buttigieg backs safe injection sites; AOC to file more psychedelics legislation; Decrim Nature op-ed: Apply legal marijuana lessons to entheogens Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Email address: Leave this field empty if you’re…

The Department of Justice defended students’ rights to discuss marijuana legalization on campus in a federal court filing on Monday. While cannabis may be federally illegal, the Justice Department sided with a Mississippi student who filed a lawsuit against his school after he was allegedly prevented from talking about the issue earlier this year, arguing…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she supports the national movement to decriminalize psychedelics and plans to again introduce legislation promoting research into such substances, according to an activist who spoke with her following a town hall meeting on Sunday. At the event in New York City, the congresswoman had a brief conversation with a member…

“If the common person has the ability to grow and use their own healing plants, and share with friends, they can forever hold the corporate interests accountable.” By Carlos Plazola, Decriminalize Nature We’re getting decriminalization and legalization of our sacred plant allies all wrong. I was part of the process that screwed up our relationship…

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg says that states should be allowed to implement safe injection facilities where people can consume illegal drugs in an effort to mitigate overdose deaths. While the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate has previously voiced support for harm reduction policies such as needle exchange programs and decriminalizing possession of drugs, this…

Lawmakers: Let scientists study dispensary marijuana; Signatures collected for Oregon drug decrim measure; Call for Congress to apologize for drug war Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Email address: Leave this field empty if…

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) and several colleagues introduced a House resolution on Friday calling on Congress to admit that the war on drugs has been a racially biased failure, provide justice to those negatively impacted by it and apologize to communities most impacted under prohibition. Watson Coleman, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus…

A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers from the House and Senate sent a letter to the Justice Department on Friday, requesting a policy change allowing researchers to access marijuana from state-legal dispensaries to improve studies on the plant’s benefits and risks. The letter, led by Rep. Harley Rouda (D-CA) and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), cites feedback…

Oregon activists have begun collecting signatures for a statewide initiative to decriminalize possession of all drugs. Three months after petitioners quietly submitted the proposed ballot measure—titled the “Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act” (DATRA)—the signature gathering process has started, with organizers deployed to Portland to raise support. A long road lies before the activists, who…

North Dakota activists submitted a measure to legalize marijuana for adult use to state officials on Thursday, an organizer confirmed to Marijuana Moment. Legalize ND, the group behind the proposed statutory initiative, delivered the measure to the secretary of state’s office. It’s expected to be validated within days, after which point petitions will be distributed…