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Since 2006, Laslo’s pushed the new media envelope for an array of eclectic outlets, including Emmy Award-winning VICE News Tonight with HBO, award-winning NPR member stations, The Daily Beast, This American Life or Laslo’s much-cited tech-forward political coverage for WIRED magazine.

As a former homeless cokehead (turned pastor-in-training at a Presbyterian college in the south), there’s not a topic Laslo’s afraid of. His envelope-pushing drug coverage for Rolling Stone, Playboy and VICE News has turned heads from coast to coast, which is why it was only natural for Aspen Ideas Festival organizers to tap him to moderate the fest’s first-ever cannabis panel back in 2019.

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Sens. Warren & Markey Oppose Massachusetts Ballot Measure To Roll Back Marijuana Legalization

Massachusetts' two U.S. Senators oppose a ballot measure coming before the state's voters in November that seeks to roll back the state’s marijuana legalization law. In interviews with The LCB, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) tell Marijuana Moment they will be voting against the anti-cannabis measure.

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Marijuana Reform Died but Senate Dems Found Wedge Issue

Marijuana Reform Died but Senate Dems Found Wedge Issue. Top Senate Democrats – including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer who hails from New York City – are now vowing to shelve the bipartisan SAFE Banking Act until they can also pass social equity protections for cannabis companies. Many advocates say they’re playing politics, and putting Wall Street above, say, Crenshaw Blvd.

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Dem on Dem Marijuana Banking Battle: Racial Justice vs. Big Banks

Dem on Dem Marijuana Banking Battle: Racial Justice vs. Big Banks — House Democrats passed a marijuana banking measure for the fifth time this week, but its chances are dim in the Senate thanks to progressive Democrats who say no handout to Wall Street until Congress addresses the racial injustices foundational to the War on Drugs.

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