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Los Angeles-area prosecutors are joining other district attorneys to use technology to wipe out or reduce as many as 50,000 past criminal cannabis convictions.

Advocates wanted equity measures. Companies wanted to jump the line. Rural counties wanted to opt out. In the end, nobody got anything. Maybe slowing down isn’t the worst thing.

When the City of Laguna Woods banned cannabis businesses from operating in city limits, they left a lot of local retirees who depend on cannabis cut off. We visited the retirement community to learn about how that impact is being felt.

Legalization stumbles at the finish in NY and NJ. Also, CBD invades the malls of America and an Australian artist wants to carve a 50-foot wooden bong.

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Congress made progress on two of the most prominent cannabis reform bills this week, setting up key votes that could greenlight cannabis banking and OK state-level legalization.

Legalization has traveled a route that looks, from a distance, like the red-and-blue maps that frame many a US political conversation. But look closer, and the trend isn’t so clear.

People angry about sweeping changes made to a voter-approved medical cannabis law called on the state’s highest court to rein in the Legislature’s power to alter ballot measures.

The ultimatum is an indication of the mounting frustration that medical cannabis still hasn’t reached patients nearly four years after lawmakers OK’d the system.

“We’ll be back at this,” Senate President Steve Sweeney said at a news conference Monday after the vote was called off. “Anybody who thinks this is dead is wrong.”