Dan Riffle

After a slow first week of the year, 2019 is quickly picking up steam. This week, we learned that Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) filed a bill in Congress that seeks to remove cannabis from the federal Controlled Substances Act. The bill is dubbed H.R. 420. In other political news, Marijuana Moment...

In a move that has surprised some Capitol Hill observers, the Republican-controlled House voted early Friday to block the Justice Department from interfering with state medical marijuana laws. The amendment passed by a vote of 219 to 189. It was attached to fiscal 2015 funding measures for a...