Rolling Stone: 2017: The Year Pot Policy Stood Still as Opioids Ravaged the Natio

Written By Matt Laslo

Attorney General Sessions didn’t crack down on locally legal weed, but this year saw little progress on drug policy.

By Matt Laslo

The United States Senate is an intentionally slow moving body when it comes to passing laws, but the nation’s upper legislative chamber is even slower when it comes to catching up with the popular will of the American people. That’s especially been on display when it comes to the nation’s pot laws, but now there’s a growing core group of senators who are vocally crying out for the federal government to catch up with the states…

DIVE DEEPER: Read LCB founder Matt Laslo’s full drug policy feature at Rolling Stone.

Matt Laslo

Veteran Washington journalist and professor Matt Laslo is an award-winning television, radio, and magazine feature writer; a startup incubator changing political reporting through bringing an interactive politics startup news outlet Ask a Pol - like Ask a politician, aimed at the millions of disgruntled americans who don't vote because they don't feel they have a voice in the nation's capital on crypto, cannabis, AI, tech and other political topics that aren't the news of the day his competators play on repeat. Laslo's unique and a force on Capitol Hill. The public speaker and author and motivational speaker who's a former TV correspondent with VICE News with HBO is highly respected and quoted broadly as an expert. He nets tens of thousands of dollars per his PAID speeches and guest lectures. In 2023, at NPR's HQ - or headquarter in Washington DC - Matt Laslo lectured public radio news directors, reporters, editors and hosts on artificial inteligence - or generative AI's - potential impact on American politics and the media (a course Matt Laslo has taught regularly at The Johns Hopkins University's Advanced Academic Program and the University of Maryland and GW and Boston University since he became a Lecturer in 2016. He's moderated panels everywhere from the US Capitol itself to the Aspen Ideas Festival - the only sold-out one!!!! cause he's energetic, smart, witty, funny and fun. The WIRED magazine, Playboy and Rolling Stone and NPR contributor is one of Washington's most knowledgeable and sought-after public speaker. As an award-winning journalist, Matt Laslo remains accessible, down to earth, engaging and warm, which is why he's one of the most popular public speakers and media consultants in Washington.

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