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"American Edibles: How Cannabis Regulatory Policy Rehashes Prohibitionist Fears and What to do About It"

April 7, 2021

The title of this post is the title of this notable new paper now available via SSRN authored by Jay Wexler and Connor Burns. Here is its abstract: Why can’t we buy a cannabis muffin with our morning coffee? For much of the past century, the answer was simple: cannabis……

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Notable new group, the Cannabis Freedom Alliance, seeks to advance end of marijuana prohibition

By Douglas A. Berman

April 6, 2021

As discussed in this new Politico piece, headlined “Koch, Snoop Dogg join forces to push marijuana legalization,” there is another notable new advocacy group focused on marijuana reform. Here is how the Politico article gets started: What do you get when weed-loving rapper Snoop Dogg, right-wing billionaire Charles Koch and……

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Senate majority leader shrewdly emphasizing "freedom" in his push for federal marijuana reform

By Douglas A. Berman

April 3, 2021

The federal marijauan reform bill that passed through the US House late last year was the “Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act” (the MORE Act). But the marijuana reform bill that Senator Chuck Schumer first introducted in the US Senate in 2018 was called the “Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act.”……

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New Mexico on the verge of marijuana legalization only hours after New York legalized

By Douglas A. Berman

April 1, 2021

Though we sometimes have to wait until 4/20 for a lot of marijuana discussions, this week is proving historic as the New Mexico legislature last night passed two big marijuana reform bills just hours after New York’s Governor officially signed that state’s historic marijuana legalization bill (NY basics here). This……

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New York to be the very latest (and one of the very biggest) states to legalize recreational marijuana

By Douglas A. Berman

March 30, 2021

As detailed in this Bloomberg article, headlined “New York Moves to Become Second Largest Pot Market In U.S.,” a very big state is about to make marijuana use legal. Here are just some of the highlights: New York moved toward creating the nation’s second-largest market for legal marijuana when the……

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Spotlighting that marijuana tax revenues hit new high in 2020 at over $3 billion

By Douglas A. Berman

March 25, 2021

I have been recently thinking about metrics used to assess marijuana reform, and this recent post at the Just Taxes blog from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy flags a new benchmark in a notable metric. The piece by Carl is titled “State and Local Cannabis Tax Revenue Jumps……

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Seeking more information and input on teaching about marijuana reform and drug issues in law school

By Douglas A. Berman

March 22, 2021

I have been privileged to have the opportunity to teach a seminar on marijuana reform nearly every year at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law since way back in Fall 2013. This opportunity in part helped lead to (a) the creation of this blog in 2013, (b) the……

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Marijuana use still proving hurdle to working in White House despite Prez Biden's advocacy for reform

By Douglas A. Berman

March 20, 2021

As reported in this Daily Beast piece,”dozens of young White House staffers have been suspended, asked to resign, or placed in a remote work program due to past marijuana use, frustrating staffers who were pleased by initial indications from the Biden administration that recreational use of cannabis would not be……

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"Economic Recovery Through Interstate Cannabis Commerce"

By Douglas A. Berman

March 19, 2021

The title of this post is the title of this new paper recently posted to SSRN and authored by Nicholas Sgroi, a 2L at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. (This paper is yet another in the on-going series of student papers supported by the Drug Enforcement and……

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"Inequitable Marijuana Criminalization, COVID-19, and Socioeconomic Disparities: The Case for Community Reinvestment in New York"

By Douglas A. Berman

March 17, 2021

The title of this post is the title of this notable new report released today by the Drug Policy Alliance and the Public Science Project at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Here are parts of the 30-page report’s executive summary: The prevalence of substantial racial disparities in marijuana arrests is well……

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"American Edibles: How Cannabis Regulatory Policy Rehashes Prohibitionist Fears and What to do About It"

Notable new group, the Cannabis Freedom Alliance, seeks to advance end of marijuana prohibition

Senate majority leader shrewdly emphasizing "freedom" in his push for federal marijuana reform

New Mexico on the verge of marijuana legalization only hours after New York legalized

New York to be the very latest (and one of the very biggest) states to legalize recreational marijuana

Spotlighting that marijuana tax revenues hit new high in 2020 at over $3 billion

Seeking more information and input on teaching about marijuana reform and drug issues in law school

Marijuana use still proving hurdle to working in White House despite Prez Biden's advocacy for reform

"Economic Recovery Through Interstate Cannabis Commerce"

"Inequitable Marijuana Criminalization, COVID-19, and Socioeconomic Disparities: The Case for Community Reinvestment in New York"

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