US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders promised to legalize cannabis by exectuive order if he is elected to the White House in 2020. The 77-year-old Democrat is going head-to-head with Donald Trump next year, and he has promised to put weed at the top of the political agenda. Sanders plans to give the green light to […]
Following his announcement in April that he intended to file a marijuana decriminalization bill which would remove the plant from a list of federally-scheduled drugs, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer this week filed the Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act. Cannabis is currently on the Controlled Substances Act — where it is currently listed as a […]
Fingers are crossed and great hope has been held by cannabis law reformers that a candidate like Senator Bernie Sanders would call for an end to the ineffective and adverse policy of marijuana prohibition. The Vermont Senator had thrown stones at the War on Drugs decades ago and held more enlightened views and forward-thinking on […]
