Obama Administration’s War On Pot: Oaksterdam Founder Richard Lee’s Exclusive...
When federal agents raided Oaksterdam University, Richard Lee's downtown Oakland, Calif.-based trade school, earlier this month, it wasn't simply a crackdown on a local pot business, it was one of the...
View ArticleThanks, Attorney General Eric Holder, For Staying Out of the Pot Legalization...
What a difference two years makes. In 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder came in and poured salt all over Californians’ dreams of legalizing pot for adults, promising “vigorous enforcement” of federal...
View ArticleFeds Give “Tacit Approval” For Legal Pot, Sources Say
The federal government has been mostly mum on the subject of voter-approved legal pot in Colorado and Washington State, and that, state officials tell Talking Points Memo, is like an official blessing...
View ArticleU.S. Senate Plans Pot Sesh
The U.S. Senate is going to pot! Yesterday, Senator Patrick Leahy announced a September 10 committee hearing on the conflict between state and federal cannabis laws. Saying the federal government needs...
View ArticleWashington Officials Confident Feds Will Like Legal Pot
SEATTLE, WA — On Thursday the U.S. Department of Justice broke its ten-month silence on voter-enacted legal pot laws in Colorado and Washington State, saying the feds are going to allow the laws to...
View ArticleFeds Apply Drug Reforms to Pending Charges, Order Some Cases Refiled
The Obama administration has announced another step in its plans to de-escalate the federal drug war. Last month Attorney General Eric Holder unveiled plans for the federal government to stop...
View ArticleTen Stories that Made 2013 the Year of Legal Pot
What a difference a year makes! With pot now legal in Colorado and Washington, 2013 saw more marijuana news than ever before. Here are some of the top stories from this historic year in cannabis law...
View ArticleHolder: Pot Shops ‘Will Be Able To Use The Banking System’
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder made some of his strongest promises yet that legal marijuana stores will be able to access banking services, even though the drug remains federall illegal. Reuters...
View ArticleMarijuana not most dangerous drug, says former Attorney General Eric Holder
Former US Attorney General Eric Holder believes marijuana should not be considered among the most dangerous drugs on the planet, he told PBS’s Frontline. “I certainly think it ought to be rescheduled,”...
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