I Found a Vape Pen at My Son’s School. Finding Out What Was Inside Was a Lot Harder.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Earlier this year, I found an empty THC cartridge package by the court after one of my son’s high school basketball games. Cannabis vapes are illegal for everyone in Texas, where I live, much less for minors. I scooped…
Reefer Sadness: Why So Many Recreational Pot Measures Failed This Year
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In America, people like pot. About 68 percent of the country supports the legalization of recreational marijuana—including more than 80 percent of Democrats and more than 50 percent of Republicans. About half of the country…
Lit: President Biden Issues Pardons for Federal Marijuana Possession
Jill Toyoshiba/Kansas City Star/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, President Joe Biden said that he would pardon all prior federal marijuana possession offenses. President Biden announced the change—aimed at remedying the socioeconomic disadvantages that people, particularly Black and brown people, face for…
Minnesota Just Legalized Edibles After a Republican Didn’t Read the Bill
Peerapon Boonyakiat/SOPA Images/ZUMA Press Wire Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Here’s something you don’t see every day: On Friday, THC-infused edibles and beverages became legal in the great state of Minnesota, after a law containing the legalization measure was included in…
The House Passed It, Americans Want It: Why Is Legal Weed Still a Long Shot?
Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Zuma Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Most Americans think it’s time to legalize weed. A whopping 91 percent of our Republic says that marijuana should be allowed for medical use, according to the Pew Research Center, and nearly…
Escorts, Medical Weed, and Corruption: Gaetz Probe Reportedly Scrutinizing 2018 Bahamas Trip
Tom Williams/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Several weeks after an explosive New York Times report into a Justice Department investigation examing whether Rep. Matt Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old that potentially broke…