Tag: Jeff Sessions

Oregon to Implement Recreational Cannabis Harvesting Rules

Written by Anthony Johnson on July 18, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, Politics.

From a macro level, the Oregon cannabis industry is doing great. Governor Kate Brown states that 19,000 new jobs have been created thanks to legal marijuana and the Oregon Revenue Department statistics...

U.S. Needs to Change Cannabis Border Policy

Written by Anthony Johnson on June 27, 2018. Posted in Cultural, ICBC Portland, Politics.

After a wonderful trip to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada for an epic International Cannabis Business Conference, I heard a number of stories from Canadians about horror stories at the United States...

GOP Senate Justice Department Bill Protects Medical Cannabis

Written by Anthony Johnson on June 12, 2018. Posted in ICBC Portland, ICBC Vancouver, Medical, Politics.

Cannabis legalization supporters were understandably displeased when Donald Trump appointed Jeff Sessions as United States Attorney General as the former Alabama senator has a long history of Reefer...

End Cannabis Prohibition to Stop “Overproduction”

Written by Anthony Johnson on May 24, 2018. Posted in Business, Politics.

Oregon cannabis businesses producing more marijuana consumers purchase continues to make headlines and the so-called “oversupply problem” has drawn the ire of Billy Williams, the United...

Congress Moves to Protect Medical Cannabis from Jeff Sessions, but What About Recreational?

Written by Anthony Johnson on May 22, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Portland, ICBC Vancouver, Medical.

It’s no secret what Jeff Sessions thinks about cannabis. Donald Trump’s “beleaguered” Attorney General famously once uttered that, “Good people don’t smoke marijuana,”...

Dr. Sanjay Gupta: Cannabis Can Be a Gateway to Recovery

Written by Anthony Johnson on April 30, 2018. Posted in ICBC Vancouver, Medical.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s evolution on cannabis has been rather remarkable. In 2009, he was a prominent voice opposing legalization. By 2013, he had examined the issue more and publicized his change...

Canada’s Cannabis Legalization Saved; Medical Protected in the U.S. for Now

Written by Amber Iris Langston on March 23, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC Berlin, ICBC Portland, ICBC Vancouver, Medical, Politics.

Yesterday we wrote to you about the long and ugly process of creating policy, and the indispensable role advocacy and activism play in making sure the law works for the people. (In the case of cannabis,...

Sessions Can’t Stop Cannabis Investment, Learn Latest at the ICBC in San Francisco

Written by Anthony Johnson on January 25, 2018. Posted in Business, ICBC San Francisco, Politics.

When Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he was going to allow federal prosecutors to enforce federal marijuana law, even in states where cannabis is legal under state law, my initial...

Pressure Increases on California Lawmakers to Fight the Feds for Cannabis

Written by Amber Iris Langston on January 19, 2018. Posted in ICBC San Francisco, Politics.

There’s no question that right now things are very heated in Washington, D.C., particularly for representatives from western states which vote heavily Democrat and definitely are not fans of Donald...