Our guests on The Cannabist Show this week: New Cannabist pot critic Sohum Shah and Good Chemistry founder and CEO Matthew Huron.
TOP MARIJUANA NEWS
From an Aug. 11 report by The Cannabist’s Ricardo Baca:
Jeff Mizanskey, a 62-year-old Missouri man sentenced to life in prison without parole for non-violent marijuana offenses, will be released from the state’s maximum-security prison in Jefferson City in less than a month, according to his son.
“Jeff is coming home this month!” reads a post on the Free Jeff Mizanskey page on Facebook. Mizanskey should be released from prison in 10-25 days, his son Chris Mizanskey told Kansas City Fox station WDAF. Jeff Mizanskey’s attorney confirmed the news to The Huffington Post’s Matt Ferner. READ MORE
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From an Aug. 11 report by The Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham:
If you’re going to wage war on drugs, you need to be outfitted like a warrior.
That seems to be the rationale behind hundreds of police department requests for armored trucks submitted to the Pentagon between 2012 and 2014. The requests, unearthed in a FOIA request by Mother Jones magazine, shed light on how the war on drugs has directly contributed to the militarization of local police forces in recent years. READ MORE
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