The road to legalizing medical cannabis in Oklahoma has been a long one. Oklahoma banned cannabis in 1933 following a nationwide trend towards restricting marijuana. And for the next 80 or so years, the quiet state of Oklahoma remained a state where, if you get caught with cannabis it’s not going to be a good…
Hemp has an extremely long and prolific history. It was used in the United States for hundreds of years for various things. It was also one of the first plants to be spun into usable fiber over 10,000 years ago and has thousands upon thousands of various uses. In addition to this, it is one…
This new Ohio medical legalization effort is happening just six months after a recreational legalization ballot was defeated by a 64% to 36% vote. Regardless of the ballot failing Ohio state senate went on to bipartisanly pass the medical marijuana bill by just three votes. The house followed the senates 18-15 vote by a passing…
Drug law in Germany can be quite confusing. There isn’t much information to be found relating to the legality of specific drugs. According to Wikipedia, in 1994 Germany’s federal constitutional court ruled that neither drug addiction nor the possession of small amounts of drugs was a crime. The German narcotics law (Betäubungsmittelgesetz) states that authorities…
Canada was the first country to legalize medical marijuana in 2001. Meanwhile fifteen years after total medical marijuana legalization in Canada; efforts in America have only succeeded in bringing legal medical cannabis to about half the states (twenty-four to be exact). The country even attempted to completely decriminalize the plant across the board in 2003,…
The state of Oregon has been a front runner in setting trends for cannabis laws in the United States. Although It was one of the states that outlawed possession and use of marijuana all the way back in 1935; It has since been working to right that wrong in the past few decades. Oregon was…
