The Cannabis Is Out Of The Bag
This week, the Colorado General Assembly put the finishing touches on legislation aimed at taxing and regulating the commercial distribution of marijuana for recreational use. The process has been...
View ArticleHolder Seeks To Avert Mandatory Minimum Sentences
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is set to announce Monday that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or large-scale drug organizations will no longer be charged with offenses...
View ArticleJustice Dept Seeks To Curtail Stiff Drug Sentences
In a major shift in criminal justice policy, the Obama administration will move on Monday to ease overcrowding in federal prisons by ordering prosecutors to omit listing quantities of illegal...
View ArticleFeds Say They Will Go Easy on Banks
During the groundbreaking phone call on Thursday, August 29 in which U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told the governors of Colorado and Washington the federal government would not attempt to...
View ArticleHolder Expands Changes in Drug-Case Policy
The Justice Department is expanding a major change in federal drug sentencing policy to cover pending drug cases, Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday. Last month, Holder said certain low-level,...
View ArticleCan The United Nations Block US MJ Legalization?
The United Nations International Narcotics Control Board’s latest annual report expressed dismay at the legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado and urged “the Government of the United...
View ArticleMarijuana Likely To Be Decriminalized in D.C.
Before long, smoking a joint in the nation’s capital might get you in even less trouble than parking on the wrong side of the street on street-cleaning day. Ten of 13 members of the D.C. Council and...
View ArticleHolder Announced A Major Shift On U.S MJ Policy
U.S. treasury and law enforcement agencies will soon issue regulations opening banking services to state-sanctioned marijuana businesses even though cannabis remains classified an illegal narcotic...
View ArticleEric Holder Says Kids Won’t Be Able To Toke Up
General Eric Holder said Wednesday that just because states are legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes doesn’t mean minors will be able to roll up a joint. “People cannot buy alcohol I guess...
View ArticleEric Holder’s Pot Problem
Twenty states plus the District of Columbia now allow sales of medicinal marijuana, allowing pot prescriptions to treat pretty much any malady, from a headache to a hangnail. Colorado and Washington...
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