Articles tagged with "law enforcement"
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Congress Pushes Back Against Jeff Sessions’ Drug War 2.0
Gage Peake - Published on May 15, 2017Read moreIf Jeff Sessions was expecting applause for his bid to revive the war on drugs last Friday, he’s not hearing much of it from Congress.
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Want to Solve America’s Public Defender Crisis? Stop Arresting People for Cannabis
Brian Saady - Published on May 4, 2017Read moreArrests for cannabis possession outnumber all violent crime arrests combined. It’s contributing to a constitutional crisis.
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Sessions Task Force Will Review DOJ Cannabis Enforcement
Gage Peake - Published on April 6, 2017Read moreAttorney General Jeff Sessions sent out a memo on Wednesday to U.S. Attorneys announcing the formation of a new task crime reduction task force.
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Cities Swap SWAT-Style Dispensary Raids for Softer Approach
Chase Scheinbaum - Published on March 30, 2017Read moreIncreasingly, authorities who turn up at cannabis raids are more likely to be armed with clipboards than submachine guns. What changed?
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Sessions Calls Cole Memo ‘Valid,’ Says Fed Resources Are Limited
Ben Adlin - Published on March 16, 2017Read moreJeff Sessions might hate cannabis, but he sure seems to like talking about it.
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Feds Still Jail More People for Cannabis Than Heroin
Gage Peake - Published on March 14, 2017Read moreBut there’s a silver lining: The number of people sentenced for federal cannabis-related crimes has dropped for the fifth year in a row.
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Trump FDA, US Attorney Moves Could Shift Cannabis Landscape
Ben Adlin - Published on March 10, 2017Read morePresident Donald Trump sent rumbles through the cannabis world with a pair of moves made late Friday.
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If Sessions Resigns, Who’s Next in Line?
Bruce Barcott - Published on March 2, 2017Read moreThe Attorney General may have saved himself with that press conference. But if he doesn’t survive, here’s who might replace him.
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AG Sessions: ‘More Violence Around Marijuana Than One Would Think’
The Associated Press - Published on February 27, 2017Read moreSessions stopped short of saying what he would do, but said he doesn’t think America will be a better place with “more people smoking pot.”
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White House Plans ‘Greater Enforcement’ Against Legal Cannabis
Ben Adlin - Published on February 23, 2017Read morePress Secretary Sean Spicer suggested Thursday that the Trump administration will crack down in adult-use states.
