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Council members in the District of Columbia gathered together today to discuss the bill passed by voters which legalized recreational marijuana. In November 2014, 65% of voters approved a measure which legalized recreational marijuana in the District of Columbia.Under the Marijuana Legalization and Regulation Act of 2015, the possession and…

Washington State is doing everything it can to get its legal marijuana program up and running. Although the state legalized recreational marijuana more than two years ago, more than 100 cities have passed legislation that prevents legal marijuana businesses from opening up.Lawmakers may have found a solutionLawmakers in the state,…

President Barack Obama may have pulled a fast one on the congressional Republicans that are trying to block marijuana legalization in the District of Columbia. President Obama did this by simply adding the word "federal" to his budget proposal. The addition of the word would allow the city government to…

To date, no state legislature has taken the law into its own hands to legalize marijuana. Vermont, however, may be the first one to do so. Lawmakers in the state are considering it and this would make Vermont the first state to legalize marijuana through state legislature.As of today, four states and…

There are big changes on the horizon for the Colorado cannabis industry. On Tuesday, a panel of state senators voted to scrap most of the administration’s plans to change Colorado’s rules regulating how medical marijuana is grown and sold.Governor John Hickenlooper’s regulators wanted to make 15 changes to the current…

Arizona might be the next state to legalize recreational marijuana. The state representative of Arizona, Mark Cardenas, recently started drafting a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana. He believes that the state needs to be proactive on the matter because it is easier to change a legislative bill than it…

On Thursday, December 11, 2014, the United States Department of Justice changed the landscape of the legal marijuana industry. They did so by stating that Indian tribes across the country can now grow and sell marijuana for recreational use on their sovereign lands. The tribes must follow the federal guidelines…

More than half of the United States has legalized the use of medical marijuana in some form. Colorado and Washington allow residents older than 21 to purchase marijuana legally for recreational purposes.

Marijuana’s medicinal properties are proven to be beneficial and its economic impact has grasped the attention of the nation. Technical420 believes that marijuana will be legalized much sooner than most people expect and here are our reasons why.

Rep. Andy Harris (Republican-Maryland.) introduced a rider into the spending bill aimed at blocking marijuana legalization in Washington, D.C. The language contained in the rider was very ambiguous and hard to understand by even the members of Congress. Mr. Harris says “none of the funds contained in this Act may be used to enact any law, rule, or regulation to legalize or otherwise reduce penalties associated with the possession, use, or distribution of any schedule I substance.” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (Republican-Kentucky.), said that this spending restriction “prohibits both federal and local funds from being used to implement a referendum legalizing recreational marijuana use in the District.”