We're still holding off on the party hats and noisemakers, but it seems clear that the reform movement is gathering some real steam in Congress, if mostly (but not wholly) on the blue side of the aisle. (A few libertarian-minded Republicans are actually quite...

There's no dearth of exciting news about cannabis from the research world - and the pipeline is only opening up wider..... "The most exciting new frontier in cannabis research this year wasn’t any individual study. It was a pair of developments (one in Canada, the...

Remember our lawsuit....? Utah's lawmakers very seldom even face truly open primaries in our "1 and a quarter" party state, so they're basically a group of self-selected insiders that the state's registered Republicans duly rubber stamp in even-numbered Novembers....

The state constitution 'prohibits the Utah Legislature from materially undermining, by repeal or amendment, the core purposes of legislation passed through the initiative process,' the lawsuit argues."

The state constitution 'prohibits the Utah Legislature from materially undermining, by repeal or amendment, the core purposes of legislation passed through the initiative process,' the lawsuit argues."

If the legislature had put as much time into thoughtful amendments to Prop 2 - which we would have participated in making as not every change is bad - Utah could have been in great shape and the great majority of the patient community could be walking arm in arm with their representatives today. But that's not where we are. This bill still stinks to high heaven.

Medical marijuana advocates say they are exploring legal action challenging the Legislature’s move to replace Proposition 2 “at the behest” of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Attorney Rocky Anderson wrote a letter, on behalf of the plaintiffs, calling for a separation of church and state.