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Republicans to Jeff Sessions: Get Your Hands Off Our Weed (Taxes)
“Attorney General Jeff Sessions has pulled off something that would have been unthinkable just a few years back: he managed to rally Republican lawmakers behind weed.” Read more:...
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Orgies, devil men, knife-wielding maniacs: A history of cannabis in California
“California was home to the Haight-Ashbury counterculture movement, the Grateful Dead and Cheech & Chong. It’s also the home state of Richard Nixon, who birthed the modern drug war, and Ronald...
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Both Sides of the Aisle Fire Back At Jeff Sessions’ New War on Weed
“With legal marijuana enjoying consistent majority support in opinion polls—a Pew poll released Friday at support at 61%–the blowback has been immediate, fierce, and across the board. Feeling...
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Globetrotting St. Louis pot entrepreneur sentenced to 15 years in prison
“Assistant U.S. Attorney John Davis said Anderson flaunted his ill-gotten wealth.” Read more:...
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Vermont Becomes the Ninth State to Legalize Recreational Marijuana
“Today Vermont Gov. Phil Scott signed a bill making his state the ninth to legalize marijuana for recreational use and the first to do so through the legislature rather than a ballot initiative. The...
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Postal Service bans images of marijuana on stamps
“Your local post office wants absolutely no marijuana sent through the mail. Even in stamp form. The ban does not apply to alcohol, tobacco and guns.” Read more:...
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Jeff Sessions Should Ask Cancer Patients about Cannabis
“Attorney General Jeff Sessions is actively lobbying Congress to overturn existing law prohibiting federal interference in state medical-marijuana policy. As someone who believes in strong...
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Despite Marijuana Reform, the War on Drugs Still Targets People of Color
“Over 50 people a day are still being arrested for it in New York City alone. Most of those arrests, predictably, are happening in communities of color. The new numbers for New York City’s 2017...
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Bipartisan lawmakers tell Trump to respect state marijuana laws
“The group of 54 lawmakers sent a letter to the president on Thursday asking him to go against Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ attempts to roll back protections on state marijuana laws, reports...
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Pot Grower Demands Speedy Trial, Is Imprisoned For 6 Years Without Trial
“During his nearly seven-year pretrial incarceration, Tigano loudly and repeatedly invoked his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. Because Tigano kept bringing up the Sixth Amendment, he was...
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How Uncle Sam Launders Marijuana Money
“The IRS accepts this tainted money in the payment of taxes, turning it into ‘clean’ money; and it is not an unwitting accomplice to the crime. Estimates are that marijuana business owners across the...
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While feds double down on marijuana prohibition, businesses stop bothering
“AutoNation may represent the first wave of a coming trend as marijuana becomes more socially acceptable and companies vie for workers in the tightest labor market in 17 years. As more states...
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Body Cam Shows Cops Gunning Down Pot Suspect’s Mother In Evening Raid
“Where is the logic in conducting the raid at night, when no one can see anything, and shouting ‘put the fucking gun down’ at a confused, half-asleep old woman? Police put her in a position where she...
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Study finds medical cannabis is effective at reducing opioid addiction
“A new study conducted by researchers at The University of New Mexico, involving medical cannabis and prescription opioid use among chronic pain patients, found a distinct connection between having...
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Alcoholics who use marijuana have lower risk of liver disease, study finds
“A peer-reviewed study set to publish in the medical journal Liver International finds that frequent marijuana use can lower the risk of developing liver disease in alcoholics.” Read more:...
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Elderly patients could benefit significantly from using medical marijuana
“The Israeli team of researchers studied 2,736 patients over the age of 65 that began to use cannabis as treatment for any sort of health problems, and found that a great majority found remarkable...
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Ron Paul: Mr. President, fire Jeff Sessions
“Former Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) discusses Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to rescind the Obama-era policy of non-interference in marijuana-friendly states.” Did you like this?Tip...
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In Trump and Sessions’ Drug War, It’s Bad Cop/Bad Cop
“Sessions also reiterated his opposition to state-legal marijuana, resorting to the discredited ‘gateway theory’ to try to blame marijuana for the opioid epidemic.” Read more:...
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‘Operation Candy Crush:’ Legality of Tennessee CBD raids is under question
“The 2016 Senate appropriations bill forbids the use of federal funds, which many law enforcement agencies receive and rely on, to prohibit the growing, processing or distribution of properly licensed...
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Seattle clears marijuana convictions, following San Francisco lead
“Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego appear to be the only major jurisdictions erasing convictions without even requiring the defendants to request it.” Read more:...
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