WASHINGTON, DC — Speaking Tuesday before the US Senate Judiciary Committee, Deputy Attorney General James Cole reaffirmed that the Justice Department is unlikely to challenge statewide marijuana legalization efforts, provided that these efforts impose “robust regulations” which discourage sales to minors and seek to prevent the diversion of cannabis to states that have not yet […]
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. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, DC – The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws Tuesday that included Deputy Attorney General James Cole; Sheriff John Urquhart of King County, Washington; Colorado governor John Hickenlooper’s chief legal counsel Jack Finlaw and others. The move comes shortly after major announcements from the Department […]
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. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, DC — On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a first-ever Senate hearing on the issue of marijuana legalization and the tension between state and federal marijuana laws. Last November, Colorado and Washington became the first political jurisdictions in the world to approve the legal regulation of marijuana. Twenty states and the District of Columbia […]
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. . . . . READ MORETUCSON, AZ – At a town hall meeting in Tucson Thursday, Sen. John McCain (R) signaled that he could be receptive to legalizing marijuana. His comments came just a week after the Obama administration said it would not interfere with taxed and regulated marijuana distribution in Colorado and Washington, whose voters legalized it last November. “Maybe […]
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. . . . . READ MOREOLYMPIA, WA – Recreational marijuana could be available for sale early next year in Washington state, officials say. A spokesman for the state Liquor Control Board said the rules have been revised to allow legal growers to begin with mature plants, SeattlePI.com reported. While the plants must not be producing usable marijuana yet, they will be […]
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. . . . . READ MOREOLYMPIA, WA – Washington state regulators, aiming to limit the state’s nascent marijuana industry, want to cap the amount of space available to grow recreational marijuana at 2 million square feet (185,800 sq. meters) – the equivalent of about 35 NFL football fields. The limit was among proposed state marijuana rules released on Wednesday, roughly a […]
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. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, DC – Not everybody is happy with Thursday’s Justice Department announcement that it would not interfere with taxed, regulated, and legalized marijuana in Colorado and Washington. While the announcement was greeted with accolades (and some questions) by the drug policy reform community, opponents of marijuana law reform were up in arms and prophesying hellfire and […]
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. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, DC — Attorney General Eric Holder informed the governors of Washington and Colorado today that the Department of Justice will allow the states to implement their ballot initiatives that legalized the production, distribution, and sale of marijuana for adults. Deputy Attorney General James Cole also issued a memo to U.S. attorneys across the country […]
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. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Justice Department issued a press release earlier today, announcing a memorandum from Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole that detailed a similar policy on recently adopted laws in the States of Washington and Colorado as it previously indicated for medical marijuana states. To the extent this new memorandum affects medical marijuana patients in Washington, […]
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. . . . . READ MOREWASHINGON, DC — Attorney General Eric Holder told the governors of Colorado and Washington Thursday that the Justice Department would not — at least for now — block their states from implementing regimes to tax, regulate, and sell marijuana. The Justice Department will take a “trust but verify” approach, a department official said. The department […]
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