Search results for "DOJ"
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Culture
Glass Art: From Lamps to CHAMPS
July 28, 2017The functional glass art industry faced massive obstacles during its evolution from an underground phenomenon into...
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Politics
Sessions vs The Senate: Committee Votes to Uphold MMJ Protections
July 27, 2017National direction to protect medical marijuana advances forward.
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Culture
West Coast Wanderings: Seattle Through A Smoky Lens
June 29, 2017A scattershot exploration of Seattle, Washington taken in from a vantage point as high as the...
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Politics
Former Deputy AG Yates: Sessions Drug Policy is Based on Fear
June 28, 2017A recent op-ed reveals that the former deputy attorney general does not agree with DOJ plans...
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Cannabis
Marin County’s ‘Godmother of Marijuana’ Is Back in Business
June 26, 2017She's baaaaaack! Lynette "Bluesetta" Shaw is a first-generation pioneer of California's massive medical marijuana market. Her...
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Politics
AG Sessions to Congress: Let Me Prosecute Cannabis Patients
June 13, 2017A recently revealed memo from AG Jeff Sessions urging Congress to overturn restrictions on DOJ prosecution...
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Politics
Is Sessions Out? AG Offers to Quit as Trump’s Russia Frustration Mounts
June 8, 2017Sessions leaving office, could mean good news for cannabis advocates.
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Legal
AG Sessions Escalates Drug War with New Sentencing Rules
May 12, 2017Nostalgia for the 1980s and '90s is hot right now, and that retro fever seems to...
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Politics
WATCH: Trump’s First Statement On MMJ – Just More Smoke?
May 10, 2017Donald Trump has gone from a candidate who supports medical marijuana "100%" to a president whose...
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Politics
How Trump’s War on Weed Could Start on Saturday (And Why It Probably Won’t)
April 28, 2017The most important Congressional action on cannabis — ever — is set to expire this Friday at midnight;...
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Politics
Does Trump Even Have a Cannabis Policy? Signs Point to No
April 25, 2017Initial cannabis industry responses to Trump's election and subsequent promotion of avowed "drug warriors" ranged from...
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Politics
AG Sessions’ Right Hand Man Wants to Amp Up the Drug War
April 17, 2017The uncertainty surrounding the Trump Administration's policy direction on cannabis enforcement has had a chilling effect...
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Legal
DEA Order Places Six ‘Spice’ Ingredients on Schedule I
April 10, 2017BREAKING: A temporary scheduling order from the DEA has placed six more synthetic cannabinoids found in...
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Legal
The First Shot of Trump’s War on Weed: Feds Ice Cannabis Cup
March 1, 2017Authorities are threatening to shut down the High Times Cannabis Cup in Las Vegas.
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Politics
Officials in Legal Pot States Vow to Fight Federal Crackdown
February 27, 2017Remarks by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer signaling increased federal enforcement of drug laws have...
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Economics
Sessions Recession? What a Federal Cannabis Crackdown Would Mean for CO
February 14, 2017Would a federal crackdown bring a recession to Colorado's economy?
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Legal
Hemp CBD Unaffected by DEA “Rescheduling” Panic
January 30, 2017There was widespread panic that the DEA was "banning" or "rescheduling" CBD when news broke the...
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Politics
“Joint” Sessions: Marijuana Fills Future Attorney General’s Office
December 16, 2016If “good people don’t smoke marijuana,” as Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions asserted earlier this year, what...
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Legal
Radical Sentence Reduction Returns Beloved Cannabis Icon to CA
December 9, 2016This Wednesday saw one of the most beloved prisoners of the war on cannabis leave federal...
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Politics
D.C. Protests Possible Cannabis Crackdown
December 2, 2016Safe access advocates in Washington, D.C. took their pro-cannabis message directly to controversial Attorney General appointee, Senator...