Search results for "asset forfeiture"

Economics

Colorado and Washington Law Enforcement Set to Lose Millions in Asset Forfeiture Money

According to the Wall Street Journal, local police departments in Colorado and Washington expect to lose...

Politics

How Utah is Using Asset Forfeiture to Gut Drug Policy Reform and Marijuana Legalization

The Utah Attorney General’s office believes a recently passed law gutting protections for property owners facing...

Legal

Berkeley Club Beats Federal Forfeiture Case

In another stunning rebuke for America’s war on medical cannabis, Berkeley institution Berkeley Patients Group announced...

Legal

Alabama Couple Lose Longtime Home Over $50 Worth of Cannabis

A couple in rural Alabama lost everything — home, belongings, business — after $50 worth of...

Politics

RBG & The Supreme Court Strike a Major Blow Against Drug War — Sort Of

Ruling limits states’ use of asset forfeiture, but widely abused practice will continue.

Legal

Senate Vote on SAFE Banking Act Likely Delayed Until Fall

Legislation to give cannabis businesses access to banking services will not get a Senate vote before...

Economics

Did the US Government Inadvertently Just Fund the Cannabis Industry?

As the SAFE Banking Act heads for another hopeful run through Congress, the Feds saved Signature...

Legal

Congressional Lawmakers Optimistic About Bipartisan Cannabis Banking Bill

Lawmakers in Congress have reintroduced hugely important bipartisan legislation to give cannabis businesses access to traditional...

Legal

While Cannabis Industry Grows, More People Are Being Busted for Weed

Arrest rates show the War on Drugs is still going full force.

Legal

The Feds Crack Down on Colorado’s Underground Cannabis Market

With help from local police, federal officials last week arrested dozens of people, conducted about 250...

Legal

DA Drops Felony Charges Against San Diego Cannabis Lawyer

The case of Jessica McElfresh came close to endangering the legal tenet of attorney-client privilege.

Politics

Can States or Citizens ‘Nullify’ Federal Cannabis Prohibition?

The doctrine of nullification has a long and harshly contested legacy in the history of the...

Legal

The Racial Bias of Drug-Sniffing Police Dogs

A new report from NPR is detailing the steps that some police departments are taking —...

Legal

Police Departments Telling K9 Units to ‘Sit and Stay’

What happens to K9 cops when cannabis is decriminalized? For the most part, not much —...

Legal

Prosecutor Charges Marijuana Business Attorney

An attorney who successfully returned money seized from a dispensary owner has now been changed with...

Politics

How Trump’s War on Weed Could Start on Saturday (And Why It Probably Won’t)

The most important Congressional action on cannabis — ever — is set to expire this Friday at midnight;...

Legal

GOP Congress is Full of Marijuana Bills

Several pro-cannabis bills have been introduced in Congress.

Joint Opinions

Sessions Sworn in: Drug Warrior Now Runs the Justice Department

Jeff Sessions is now attorney general here's what we can expect next.

Legal

Vindicated: BPG & Berkeley Beat Feds

In what may be remembered as the last great battle for California’s medical cannabis industry prior...

Legal

Former Cannabis Union Honcho: Feds Took Me Out

From 2010 until his arrest on corruption and bribery charges last summer, former union organizer Dan...