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Warren: Drug possession warrants jail time but laundering cartel money doesn’t?
Appearing at a Senate Banking Committee hearing Thursday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) grilled officials from the Treasury Department over why criminal charges were not filed against officials at HSBC who helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars for drug cartels. The HSBC scandal resulted in the Department of Justice and…
Former DEA chiefs worry Obama abandoning drug war
Eight former directors of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said in an open letter published Tuesday (PDF) that they’re worried the Obama administration is abandoning the war on drugs by allowing Colorado and Washington to legalize marijuana. “Our earlier attempts to have the Attorney General announce that he will enforce…
Colorado man says cops justified cash ‘donations’ for pot delivery service
A Colorado man arrested earlier this month for running a marijuana-for-donations delivery service said Tuesday that police were quoted in the media describing a legal loophole that results in an exchange of cash for weed. Since legalization went through in November, a culture of selling weed by soliciting “donations” and…
Bipartisan bills would force feds to recognize marijuana’s medical value
Two new bills introduced Monday by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA) aim to help medical marijuana patients defend themselves in court and open up new avenues of scientific research into the drug by forcing the federal government to recognize marijuana’s potential for medical value. H.R. 689,…
Hemp legalization bills introduced to California legislature
Two California lawmakers, state Sen. Mark Leno (D) and state Assemblyman Allan Mansoor (R), introduced legislation on Friday to legalize industrial hemp production in the state. The bills, S.B. 566 and A.B. 1137, would allow non-psychoactive variants of the marijuana plant to be cultivated for industrial purposes. The legislation would…
Nevada state senator to push dispensary bill amid confusing medical marijuana law
A Nevada state senator announced that he would push legislation to create a system to regulate for-profit medical marijuana dispensaries, reported the Las Vegas Sun. His announcement came after a hearing on medical marijuana during which legislators from both parties agreed that changes to the law needed to be made,…
Washington state bill would forgive all minor marijuana convictions
Washington state Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon (D) has a novel idea: now that marijuana is legal in the state, he wants people convicted of minor, state-level marijuana offenses to get a clean slate. Fitzgibbon introduced H.B. 1661 on Feb. 5, a bill that he told Raw Story was inspired by Washington…
Task force: Tourists welcome to get stoned in Colorado
Regulators on Colorado’s Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force recommended on Tuesday that tourists be allowed to toke up when visiting the Centennial State, but officials stopped short of saying it’s cool for visitors to carry their stash back across state lines once they’re headed home. The task force’s Tuesday meeting…
NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg: No more automatic jail time for pot possession
New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in a speech on Thursday that he is eliminating mandatory jail time for people arrested with small amounts of marijuana. Arrests for marijuana possession have skyrocketed since he took office and the mayor has made it plain that he does not support marijuana…
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Is the South ready to say howdy to hemp?
Is the South ready to say howdy to hemp? (via The Christian Science Monitor) The Framers of the Constitution were big into hemp, and, after 56 years of prohibition, America is on the cusp of ending a hemp ban as part of a push to help farmers. The big question,…
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