Politics
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AG Sessions to Congress: Let Me Prosecute Cannabis Patients
A recently revealed memo from AG Jeff Sessions urging Congress to overturn restrictions on DOJ prosecution of state-legal medical cannabis operations is heating up already...
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Legalization in Trump’s America: Skating on Thin Ice
With an aggressive executive branch openly defying constitutional checks on its authority and installing noted prohibitionists in key positions, will the Trump administration make America...
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Is Sessions Out? AG Offers to Quit as Trump’s Russia Frustration Mounts
Sessions leaving office, could mean good news for cannabis advocates. Even Donald Trump is sick of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions, America’s all-purpose antebellum bogeyman...
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DOJ Task Force Gears Up to Talk Pot Policy
The Justice Department's Task Force on Public Safety and Crime Reduction has a set of initial recommendations due next month that will include a look...
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SF NIMBY Culture: An Old Problem Facing a New Industry
San Francisco may have a hyper-liberal reputation nationally, but the city's residents can be ferociously conservative when it comes to development in their own neighborhood...
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Access to MMJ for Veterans Grows, But the Struggle Continues
On Memorial Day, we honor those military service members who made the ultimate sacrifice. But for many combat veterans who return from battle with PTSD and...
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Florida Medical Marijuana’s Last Hope is its First Problem
The Florida Legislature decamped without setting up rules for producing and selling medical cannabis — in violation of the requirements of Amendment 2, passed overwhelmingly by voters...
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Veto in Vermont: Gov. Phil Scott Halts Legalization – For Now
Vermont Governor Phil Scott has vetoed what would have been a historical first — a state legalizing cannabis through the legislature and not the ballot....
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New Jersey Lawmaker Introduces Cannabis Legalization Bill
The Garden State looks toward legalization. New Jersey governor Chris Christie has absolutely no intention of legalizing marijuana before he leaves office in 2018, but...
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What’s Killing Medical Marijuana in Minnesota?
Most of Minnesota’s medical-marijuana patients--all 6,300 of them--say that having safe and regulated access to legal cannabis is a great benefit. If only the two...
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The End of Anti-Pot New Jersey
Cannabis activists in New Jersey are envisioning a future without Governor Chris Christie. The future is bright for New Jersey as lawmakers start the conversation...
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Connecticut Dems Call for Legalization in Budget Proposal
Connecticut Democrats have unveiled a budget proposal that recommends legalizing and taxing marijuana. In a recently released budget proposal, Connecticut Democrats called for the legalization of...
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WATCH: Trump’s First Statement On MMJ – Just More Smoke?
Donald Trump has gone from a candidate who supports medical marijuana "100%" to a president whose first official statement on the topic has decriminalized states...
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Vermont Is One Signature Away from Legalizing Cannabis
Vermont is poised to be the first state to legalize pot with a pen — a legalization bill has already passed both houses of the...
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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; chances are, you won’t even notice. Depending on who...
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Does Trump Even Have a Cannabis Policy? Signs Point to No
Initial cannabis industry responses to Trump's election and subsequent promotion of avowed "drug warriors" ranged from cautious optimism to abject horror. But after repeated mixed...
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Pot Policy Leaders Respond to Trump Drug Czar Pick
With an avowed drug warrior now at the helm of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, some in the cannabis industry are concerned. Others...
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AG Sessions’ Right Hand Man Wants to Amp Up the Drug War
The uncertainty surrounding the Trump Administration's policy direction on cannabis enforcement has had a chilling effect across the industry. Now, with the elevation of an...
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Biggest Block for Big Bud Still Banking: Fed Dread Spurs Purge
With the Trump administration still alternating between silence and saber rattling on federal cannabis enforcement, next generation merchant-service providers like Square and Paypal are joining...
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Nevada: From ‘Life for Sales’ to ‘Legitimate, Legal Pot Massage’
A previous generation of Nevada lawmakers enshrined draconian penalties for cannabis possession and sale, infamously printing the sentencing minimums on a road sign with the admonition "don't...
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