Topic: Sentencing

Colorado considering dismissing non-violent marijuana convictions: Gov. Hickenlooper

• States that change marijuana laws find conundrums over old convictions
• San Francisco plans to erase thousands of marijuana convictions
• After sounding alarm about increased crime, Sessions credits Trump with crime rate drop in first half of 2017
• California bill would automatically erase prior marijuana convictions
• California offers second chance to people convicted of marijuana crimes
• Michigan marijuana “kingpin” gets 13 years in federal prison
• In spite of Jeff Sessions, criminal justice reform still moving forward
• NBA’s Zach Randolph avoids felony charge, gets community service after possession arrest
• To solve the opioid crisis, go after Big Pharma, not drug users
• Sessions isn’t making America safer. He might be making it more dangerous
• Jeff Sessions’ new war on drugs won’t be any more effective than the old one
• Jeff Sessions’ drug policies will expand black market, not reduce crime
• Sessions: Softened approach to drug enforcement led to surge in drug abuse and violent crime
• Battling the racial roadblocks to joining the legalized cannabis industry
• Supreme Court limits government seizure of assets in drug conspiracy cases
• It took the Trump Administration just a month to turn Obama-era drug policy on its head
• Prosecutors say Sessions’ severe penalities order “unnecessary and unfortunate”
• Aussie woman imprisoned in Bali for 9 years for weed smuggling returning home
• Thousands arrested for weed before California legalization apply to have sentences, convictions reduced
• Bipartisan legislation seeks to undermine Sessions’ sentencing memo
• David Clarke, who says he’s taking a top post at Homeland Security, thinks marijuana is gateway to heroin