She told audience members that she faced resistance form law enforcement officials, saying “By the way, I got a lot of pushback. The police officers that did drug crimes, they said, ‘Claire, let me get this straight. We’re gonna go …
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Couple Arrested for Hibiscus Plant Takes Case to Federal Court
Audrey, who was only partly dressed and was not wearing any pants when the officers arrived with guns drawn, told the authorities repeatedly that they were mistaken and that the plants were indeed hibiscus plants. She was placed in a …
Read More »2nd teen in ‘Slenderman’ stabbing gets 40 years in mental institution : news
Everyone who gets this plea who has committed a serious crime goes directly to the Locked Mental Hospital for several years. They do get out, if they demonstrate stability and insight. Many have been let out of the locked hospital …
Read More »San Francisco Offers Thousands of Marijuana Convicts a Clean Slate
As the marijuana industry goes through its growing pains across the country, many have questioned whether lawmakers will make things right with the people affected most by decades of cannabis prohibition: those who were handed criminal charges for what is …
Read More »D.A.R.E. is Apparently Still a Thing, and Their Cannabis Stance is Laughable
Countless Americans have passed through D.A.R.E. class during their educational careers, to questionable results. The police-driven Drug Abuse Resistance Education program has been built on demonizing marijuana in an effort to scare kids into sobriety, but the misguided effort may …
Read More »New Mexico Introduces Marijuana Legalization Bill
Polling data from 2016 shows New Mexican’s attitudes towards changes in marijuana policy have shifted. Results show a 60 percent majority of New Mexicans polled are in favor of reforming current marijuana laws.“New Mexico’s current marijuana laws are unfair, unpopular …
Read More »Arcane Revelry: Helping to Redefine the Cannabis Consumer
I started this project, inspired by my own pain. My father was arrested when I was less than one-year-old for marijuana possession and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. My whole life. My mother just passed away in 2017, …
Read More »Police Officers Snitch on Themselves After Getting Too High on Edibles
As if law enforcement wasn’t already dealing with marijuana in the worst way possible, now police officers are really having trouble handling their weed. Two Toronto cops had to call their colleagues on themselves Sunday after allegedly eating some suspiciously-secured …
Read More »New York City Won’t Stop Using the Guise of Weed Arrests to Discriminate Against People of Color
Earlier this month, in the aftermath of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ promise that he would continue his crusade against state-legalized cannabis, one unlikely detractor emerged from the shadows to chastise the leader of our nation’s Department of Justice. Jeff Sessions’ …
Read More »Police in Prohibition States Report Huge Increase in Cannabis Trafficking – News
While state officials in California and Colorado have been busy issuing licenses and regulating weed like alcohol, cops across America’s northern corridor have reported huge increases in marijuana seizures and interstate trafficking, a persistent problem they say is all thanks …
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