CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2018 By: Amber Iris Langston If you are in the cannabis industry, you probably heard the news yesterday which sent waves of fear and confusion throughout the country for every player in the marijuana market. Cannabis stocks took a dive, and everyone called their lawyers looking for hope[Read More…]
Commentary
Voter Purges Prevent Eligible Americans from Voting, Center for American Progress Fact Sheet Says
Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2018 By: Danielle Root and Liz Kennedy Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Ohio can remove people from voters rolls simply because they didn’t vote in previous elections. A new fact sheet from the Center for American Progress outlines how these voter[Read More…]
Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wants to Stifle the Cannabis Legalization Movement. He’s Only Made Us Stronger.
OREGON—(ENEWSPF)—January 5, 2018 By: Anthony Johnson, Director, New Approach Oregon Attorney General Jeff Sessions was opposed by cannabis legalization supporters for good reason as he’s had a long history of supporting Reefer Madness policies. Despite Donald Trump’s campaign promise to respect states’ rights to implement their own marijuana laws, Sessions[Read More…]
Congressman Blumenauer Statement on Reports that AG Sessions to End Policy on State Marijuana Laws
Portland, Ore. – (ENEWSPF)—January 4, 2018. Representative Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, today released the following statement on reports that Attorney General Jeff Sessions will rescind the “Cole Memo”—guidance established by the Obama Administration in 2013 to allow states to implement responsible marijuana laws without federal[Read More…]
Has Evangelical Christianity Become Sociopathic?
By Tim Rymel, M.Ed. The Huffington Post ENEWSPF– Since Evangelical Christianity began infiltrating politics, officially in the late 1970s, there has been a disturbing trend to limit or remove rights from those who don’t meet the conservative idea of an American. Many of these initiatives come in the form of[Read More…]
Weed Becomes Legal in California on New Year’s Day, So Here’s What You Need to Know
A lot needs to be done to ensure an equitable transition to marijuana legalization for the sixth largest economy in the world. CALIFORNIA—(ENEWSPF)—December 31, 2017 By: Tamar Todd The new year brings with it a new era for marijuana in California. January 1, 2018 marks the beginning of a new[Read More…]
2017 Year In Review: NORML’s Top Ten Events In Marijuana Policy
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 28, 2017 #1: Public Support In Favor Of Adult Use Legalization Reaches All-Time High Sixty-four percent of US adults – including for the first time a majority of self-identified Republicans – believe that the adult use of marijuana should be legal, according to nationwide polling data published in[Read More…]
New Data Shed Light on Demographics of Student Loan Defaulters
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)—December 14, 2017 By: Ben Miller A new issue brief from the Center for American Progress paints a comprehensive profile of who comprises the 1 million student borrowers who default on $20 billion in federal loans each year. The final installment in a series on student loan default—which[Read More…]
NOW: What Doug Jones’ Victory Means For Women
“We Need To Speak With One Voice” Say Leaders Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)—December 13, 2017 By: Emily Imhoff “The heads of three prominent groups that advocate for women said today that Doug Jones’ victory in the Alabama Senate election will reverberate into the coming battles over tax cuts, abortion, birth control,[Read More…]
Poll Finds Younger and College-educated Women More Likely to Say They’ve Experienced Slurs, Offensive Comments, Harassment
American women most frequently report being discriminated against in the workplace Boston, MA ─(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2017 By: Todd Datz This report is part of a series titled “Discrimination in America.” The series is based on a survey conducted for National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Harvard T.H.[Read More…]
