California
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department has seized more than 90,000 pounds of marijuana from a property in the Hesperia area.
World & Nation
All the justices who have voted in favor said decriminalization should be restricted to possession of marijuana in amounts suitable for personal use.
Florida voters rejected ballot measures to protect abortion rights and legalize recreational marijuana.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy.
Opinion
Legal pot is tested and safer for consumers. But the Department of Cannabis Control’s failure to address lab fraud and tainted items undercuts the legal market.
Taking cannabis out of the most-dangerous-drug category is almost literally the least the federal government can do on the subject. Further work is needed to catch up with Americans’ knowledge and practice.
Two years ago Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalize marijuana. As in California, it hasn’t worked out as planned.
Letters to the Editor
The Times’ investigation of pesticides in marijuana rings an alarm about the drug that should never have gone silent.
The federal government’s plan to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug will allow important medical research into how cannabis can help or hurt users.
Politics
The Biden administration soon will take a big step toward bringing federal policy on weed more in line with what the public says it prefers.