Marijuana Movement

Ohio counted $11.5 million in legal marijuana sales in five opening days in August 2024. Adult-use receipts later passed $1.8 billion as lawmakers rewrote the rules.

A Gulfport, Mississippi, officer answered a wrong-number invite to smoke with a badge photo. Recreational cannabis remains illegal, and the state counted 4,470 possession arrests in 2025.

Capitol Police pulled 34 unclaimed cannabis plants from the Vermont Statehouse beds in 2019. The licensed market around that lawn now clears nine figures a year.

A Mount Sinai trial found CBD reduced heroin-cue craving for a week. A buprenorphine pilot found no clear edge, and state overdose charts never proved a cure.

Patent 6,630,507 called cannabinoids neuroprotectants in 2003. A DEA judge stayed the Schedule III hearing after a GAO report that never judged cannabis on the merits.