The Drug Enforcement Administration swooped in on several medical marijuana storefronts in Washington on Wednesday, despite the state's law allowing marijuana possession.
A bill being introduced to the Washington, D.C. city council this week aims to eliminate all criminal penalties for minor marijuana possession offenses, in hopes of altering the course of a city with the highest marijuana arrest rate in the nation.
Could New York hold the record for most pot possession arrests? A new report out Tuesday said police there spent about a million hours taking offenders into custody between 2002 and 2012.
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 legalization.
