4 June 2018 Colorado's governor vetoed a bill to allow marijuana retailers to set up "tasting rooms," dashing hopes that the state would be the first to adopt a system letting consumers use marijuana in public spaces.
4 June 2018 Viral stories falsely suggest that a NIH fact sheet was “quietly” amended to state that cannabis kills cancer cells.
30 May 2018 The "Right to Try" act is aimed at experimental treatments for terminally ill patients, not ending marijuana prohibition on the federal level.
15 May 2018 The "Tiny Toker" toyset, featuring kid-sized marijuana paraphernalia, is a not a real product from Fisher-Price.
8 May 2018 Arguments made by one sheriff opposed to legalized marijuana are dubious and disputed by police departments that have dealt with legal weed.
25 April 2018 The results of a 22-person pilot study have been misrepresented through years of viral reporting and celebrity promotion.
11 April 2018 A December announcement by a WHO committee stated that one specific component of marijuana is safe and should not require regulation.
4 April 2018 The findings run counter to political arguments against legalizing marijuana for recreational use.
23 March 2018 A fake news item falsely led social media users to believe that Florida became one of the states in which recreational marijuana is now legal.
14 February 2018 A newspaper editorial gets some facts right, and some wrong, in weighing up the consequences of Colorado's legalization of recreational marijuana.
7 February 2018 A spoof video about the notoriously anti-pot Attorney General was produced by a comedy group and managed to trick some viewers.
5 January 2018 It is possible to experience some psychoactive effects from secondhand exposure to marijuana smoke, but you'd really have to put effort into it.
