by Steve Elliott | Aug 23, 2017 | Legalization, News
Oregon’s governor and the head of the Oregon State Police are defending the state’s legal cannabis industry in letters sent to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has been hinting at a Trump Administration crackdown on states which are in conflict...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 17, 2017 | News, Weird Shit
Prosecutors in Houston, Texas, have dropped criminal charges against two Harris County Sheriff’s deputies who conducted a public, roadside strip-search of a 21-year-old African American woman. The search of Charnesia Corley was called “rape by cop”...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 16, 2017 | Legalization, News
Attorney General Jeff Sessions may think he’s got a tough gig. Being subject to frequent daily humiliation by his boss, Donald Trump, could certainly create a stressful work environment. Now Sessions’ criticisms of Washington state’s legal marijuana...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 11, 2017 | News
Utah Patients Coalition has received approval from Lt. Governor Spencer Cox to begin gathering signatures to qualify for the November 2018 ballot. After holding 10 public hearings across the state and meeting with various state departments and stakeholders, the...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 8, 2017 | Legislation, News
Resolution approved by state lawmakers would give states control of their own marijuana policies without federal interference The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) on Monday approved a resolution urging that the Controlled Substances Act should be...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 4, 2017 | News
A federal Department of Justice task force subcommittee on marijuana policy is not recommending any policy changes that would target state-legal marijuana programs or businesses operating in compliance with state laws. The Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 4, 2017 | News
Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions appears to be laying the groundwork for a federal crackdown on legal marijuana, including raids in Washington State. Sessions has sent a letter to Washington State officials criticizing the implementation of marijuana legalization there....
by Steve Elliott | Aug 3, 2017 | News
Both of New Hampshire’s U.S. Senators lashed out at Donald Trump on Thursday after it was revealed that Trump had called the Granite State “a drug infested den” during a telephone call with the president of Mexico. “I won New Hampshire because...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 2, 2017 | News
Eighty years ago today, on August 2, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed House Bill 6385, The Marihuana Tax Act, into law. The Act, for the first time, imposed federal criminal penalties on activities specific to the possession, production, and sale of...
by Steve Elliott | Aug 1, 2017 | News
Bill Establishes “Community Reinvestment Fund” of $500M Aimed at Repairing Some of the Damage Done by the War on Drugs Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) on Tuesday introduced the Marijuana Justice Act, legislation that ends federal marijuana prohibition and punishes states...
