Alternet: “Will Obama Go After Legal Pot In Washington and Colorado?”
Will Obama Go After Legal Pot In Washington And Colorado? One week ago, US Attorney General Eric Holder cryptically told Bloomberg News that...
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Oakland Insists It Can Defend Medical Pot Club
The city of Oakland renewed demands to stay forfeiture proceedings against a local medical marijuana dispensary, as a matter of state's rights. Harborside..
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Colorado Attorney General Suthers Says He Will Respect Marijuana Measure
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, an ardent opponent of marijuana legalization, said Wednesday he would respect the will of the voters on Amendment 64
Cato Institute Policy Analysis and Forum on State Legalization and Preemption
The libertarian Cato Institute has published a Policy Analysis, "On the Limits of Federal Supremacy: When States Relax (or Abandon) Marijuana Bans."
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AG Eric Holder Says Administration Will Announce Marijuana Policy Soon
US Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will announce “relatively soon” its policy on recently passed state measures legalizing cannabis
Prohibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State Marijuana Legalization Case to Media
A mostly great piece in Rolling Stone this weekend, "Obama's Pot Problem," missed the mark on the federal preemption question on marijuana legalization...
Feds Say City of Oakland Can't Stop Medical Pot Crackdown
The U.S. government told a federal judge that the city of Oakland lacks standing to try and block it from seizing a medical marijuana dispensary...
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Obama's Pot Problem
Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana, Rolling Stone explores if President Obama will continue the government’s war on weed...
Medical Marijuana Advocates Urge Mendocino County Officials to Fight Federal Subpoena for Records
Mendocino County Board of Supervisors and County Counsel to hold closed-door meeting Tuesday after 9am public comment period...
Colorado Business Groups Ask Feds to Enforce Marijuana Laws
Some 20 Colorado business organizations wrote a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder last Friday urging him to enforce federal laws barring the sale...
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Washington Set to Legalize Marijuana Use Without Justice Department Guidance
Adults in Washington state will be able to smoke cannabis legally on Thursday, even though the Justice Department has offered no guidance on the conflict...
Mendocino Officials Mum on Federal Medical Pot Subpoena
Both Federal & Mendocino County officials declined to comment on a federal subpoena for financial records regarding the county's medical marijuana ordinance
Harborside Health Center Must Stay Open, Oakland Says
The city of Oakland says that forfeiture proceedings against Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana dispensary should be stayed while a federal judge
Harborside Health Center Dispensary Can't Catch a Break With Landlords
Harborside Health Center, a medical marijuana dispensary has renewed pleas to stop its landlord from upending the business amid federal forfeiture...
Two of the Largest American Newspapers Opine in Favor of Allowing States to Legalize Marijuana
Editorials in favor of marijuana law reform featured this weekend by two of the US’ largest newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post...
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Marijuana Dispensary Closed By Feds Re-Opens...Is the Crackdown Over?
San Francisco's Shambhala Healing Center has decided to reopen its doors after Obama's Justice Department assault on CA's medical marijuana dispensaries...
Law Enforcement Call on DOJ to Respect State Marijuana Laws
Tues morning Former Baltimore narcotics officer Neill Franklin delivered a letter signed by 73 current and former law enforcement, judges, prosecutors to...
Marijuana Legalization: What Can/Will the Feds Do?
In the wake of last week's victories for marijuana legalization in Colorado & Washington everyone is waiting to see how the federal government will respond.