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…
Cannabis is officially listed as a schedule one drug by the United States Controlled Substances Act. The Controlled Substances Act also created the DEA as well as the FDA, both of which determine which substances are either added or removed from certain schedules. While there are a few requirements for a substance to be landed…
In late December 2014, journalists and bloggers advocating medical marijuana rejoiced at a new found topic on the subject to write about. A clause in the (then) newly passed roughly 1600 page federal spending measure outlined a so called ‘ceasefire’ on the federal war on medical marijuana. Said passage stated that “None of the funds…
