After Jeff Sessions and the Department of Justice announced they would rescind the Cole memo and direct U.S. attorneys across the country to resume their prosecution efforts of marijuana “offenders,” many wondered how the states that had already legalized would …
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President Trump May Help American MMJ Patient Avoid Life in Bali Prison
An American is facing a life or death scenario on the Indonesian island of Bali after being caught with 0.7 grams of marijuana over the 5-gram trafficking limit. After reportedly seeing the story on Fox News, President Trump is considering …
Read More »Marijuana for Christmas? Elderly Couple Arrested With 60 Pounds for Gifts
A couple in their 80s was arrested in Nebraska on Tuesday for allegedly transporting 60 pounds of marijuana, worth several hundred thousand dollars, which they told the police they intended to give away as Christmas presents. The couple, Patrick Jiron, …
Read More »California’s Lt. Gov. Calls Legal Weed “Criminal Justice Reform”
Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic Lt. Gov. for the past six years, was an early supporter of marijuana legalization. A candidate for governor in 2018, Newsom took to social media Thursday to express his support for ending marijuana prohibition as a …
Read More »Bitter Sweet: Denver Shuts Down 11 Dispensaries for Double-Dealing Weed – News
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On Thursday, Dec. 14, the Denver Police Department shut down 26 cannabis operations licensed under Sweet Leaf, one of Colorado’s largest dispensary chains. The raids led to the arrests of 13 budtenders, who were charged with allegedly “looping” weed sales in violation of state law.
The Fate of Marc and Jodie Emery, Convicted Marijuana Traffickers
While many former Canadian cops and public servants are entering the burgeoning marijuana industry with their own business ventures, activists Marc and Jodie Emery are being railroaded for helping get us here. On Monday, in a downtown Toronto courtroom, the …
Read More »Senator Ron Wyden Joins Bill to End Federal Cannabis Prohibition – News
This Monday, senior Democratic Senator Ron Wyden announced that he was joining Senator Cory Booker in co-sponsoring the Marijuana Justice Act, a new bill that would legalize marijuana federally and punish states that continue enforcing cannabis prohibition laws. “The Marijuana Justice …
Read More »Texas Man Served Eight Months in Jail for Being a Cannabis-Using Gun Owner – News
Image via M&R Glasgow As medical and recreational cannabis become increasingly legal across the United States, a decades-old piece of federal legislation banning drug users from owning and operating firearms has been creating complications for gun-owning marijuana consumers with greater …
Read More »Cautious Texas Among Last States to OK Medical Marijuana
MANCHACA, Texas — When California rings in the new year with the sale of recreational pot for the first time, Texas will be tiptoeing into its own marijuana milestone: a medical cannabis program so restrictive that doubts swirl over who …
Read More »Whoa, Cannabis Business Owner Actually Gets His Seized Assets Back
In January 2016, James Slatic’s San Diego medical marijuana business, Med-West Distribution, was raided by a narcotics joint task force that destroyed the entrepreneur’s facility and ability to continue serving an extensive patient list. While it’s difficult to calculate exactly …
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