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By Brendan Bures, via The Fresh Toast. Provided exclusively to Benzinga Cannabis for publication. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders re-affirmed his pro-marijuana legalization stance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, but that doesn’t mean he’ll decriminalize all drugs. Perhaps the most...

Who "won" and who "lost" this week's Democratic debate in Detroit? That's hard to say before any new large-scale polling comes out. Checking with the pundits can give a sense of what the pros thought, but there's little widespread agreement.  Even the...

The presence of former Vice President Joe Biden onstage Wednesday on the second night of debate among Democratic presidential candidates put the Obama administration’s policies in the spotlight in clashes over health care, immigration and criminal justice.  Biden, who has a comfortable...

By Brendan Bures. It’s not even 2020, but the 2020 Election is already turning personal and combative between presidential candidates for the Democratic nomination. This week saw Sen. Cory Booker aim directly at former Vice President Joe Biden, who released his extensive plan for criminal...

Many of the 20 Democrats participating over two days in the CNN Democratic Presidential Debates in Detroit favor cannabis legalization. Where the candidates differ the most is in past policies that may contradict their positions today — and in how legalization would look under...

At the 110th NAACP National Convention in Detroit, where President Donald Trump was never far from mind, 10 of the candidates running to unseat him in 2020 showed up Wednesday to make their pitch to black voters. Nine Democratic candidates and one Republican sat down for question-and-answer...

Three pieces of legislation introduced Thursday in Congress aim to broaden the acceptance of cannabis, with one allowing importation of marijuana across state lines, one encouraging more research on the drug and one protecting immigrants from being deported for possession. Crossing State...

This week, U.S. lawmakers again introduced legislation that would put an end to the federal prohibition of cannabis, allowing states to decide on their own marijuana policies without the risk of federal interference. The law in question, dubbed The Marijuana Justice Act, was introduced by Rep....

Keith Stroup, the founder of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and the organization's legal counsel, is one who understands the gravity of cannabis’ impact on the 2020 presidential election. "It certainly is a watershed year for those of us who work on...

Earlier this year, the Compassionate Access Research Expansion and Respect States Act (CARERS Act) was introduced into the senate by Senators Rand Paul, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand, in an effort to change federal rules governing marijuana and align them with state-level legalization....