A national drug syndicate disguising itself as a small Greeley medical marijuana grow traded in cryptocurrency and had drug pipelines to eight states, federal documents in Denver U.S. District Court reveal.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that the next Congress will accelerate our progress to reform cannabis laws on the national level. “
A 22-year-old man who robbed a southwestern Oregon marijuana dealer has been sentenced to more than six years in prison.
In a clash of deeply felt testimony, parents in tears pleaded with Colorado lawmakers on Friday to pass a bill allowing their children with autism to use medical marijuana as a treatment.
Trump said he would nominate Ronny Jackson, 50, an active-duty rear admiral in the Navy who has served for the past three administrations as a White House physician.
A former Hattiesburg, Miss., police officer pleaded guilty to trying to obtain and distribute 110 pounds or more of marijuana.
“While we bicker over whether Grandpa should be able to buy pot brownies to relieve his sciatica, legions of Americans know how to obtain illegal and unregulated drugs with the ease of buying a candy bar.”
The plaintiffs, including an Iraq War veteran, a child with a seizure disorder and an ex-NFL player, claimed that the CSA’s classification of cannabis as a Schedule I substance is so “irrational” that it violates the U.S. Constitution.
For 16 years, every elementary school student in this small town in Massachusetts has learned about drugs from Officer Kenneth Thaxter. But this year, his lesson needed to change, and he was about to find out whether the students knew why.
Congressman Pete Sessions used a speech at an opioid epidemic summit Tuesday to suggest that marijuana is the gateway to addiction.
Stung by robberies in California, Colorado, Washington and other states, the cannabis industry is pressing Congress to change federal banking laws so that its retailers no longer have to carry and process large amounts of cash.
The interstate traffic, notably visitors from New Mexico and Texas, are what drive sales to Las Animas County, said Trinidad City Manager Greg Sund.
As the opioid crisis has mushroomed into a national epidemic, the number of truck and bus drivers, commercial pilots, railroad operators and pipeline workers who failed federal drug tests has jumped by 77 percent since 2006, federal data shows.
Here’s what we know about the top federal prosecutors stationed in the nine states that have legalized recreational marijuana.
The most common reason for gynecomastia — enlarged breasts — among 18-to-35-year-old men is frequent use of pot, according to a cosmetic surgeon who specializes in treating the condition
Average hourly earnings for employees in security and armored car services jumped 17 percent, compared with a 2.5 percent increase for all U.S. private-sector workers in the same period.
Officials from GW Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed Epidiolex announced promising results from a randomized study on 171 patients.
Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto says she’s anxious to find out the acting U.S. Attorney for Nevada’s take on the Trump administration’s marijuana policy.
Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo. attempted to push the provision known as the McClintock-Polis Amendment in an emergency meeting of the House Rules committee late Wednesday night.
“In the last week there’s been a groundswell of support to include this amendment in appropriations legislation,” Rep. Jared Polis said.
Lawmakers lined up behind several cannabis-related House bills in the wake of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ marijuana policy shift.
The U.S. is not gearing up for a large-scale prosecution of legal marijuana users, according to initial indications from the dozen or so U.S. attorneys who are now authorized make that call.
2017 was a year of frustration but also incremental progress for military veterans and their advocates as veterans’ organizations and their supporters continued to lobby federal and state politicians to expand medical marijuana access and research.
The dismissal comes a week after the company’s board of directors and interim chief executive resigned, and the 25-year-old founder was reappointed CEO and his trio of recommended board members were installed.
MassRoots Inc. on Thursday disclosed the reappointment of Isaac Dietrich as chief executive and the replacement of three board members.
