Seattle Wants All Marijuana Misdemeanors Cleared

Five years after Washington state legalized marijuana, Seattle officials say they’re moving to automatically clear past misdemeanor convictions for pot possession.

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jeff Sessions’s Wrong Turn on Marijuana

Cato Institute’s Trevor Burrus reminds us: While Sessions is misguided in his antiquated, if not antediluvian, views on marijuana, he’s not wrong that, under current law, Congress has prohibited marijuana use everywhere in the country for any reason. In fact, federal law regards marijuana as one of the most dangerous drugs in the world.

Source: NATIONAL REVIEW

Sessions to Rescind Obama-era Rules In States Where Pot is Legal

In a seismic shift, Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce Thursday that he is rescinding a trio of memos from the Obama administration that adopted a policy of non-interference with marijuana-friendly state laws, according to a source with knowledge of the decision.

SOURCE: CNN

Sessions: Obama Marijuana Policy Remains In Effect

In a House oversight hearing, the anti-legalization attorney general also admits that marijuana is not as dangerous as heroin.

Source: FORBES

CDOT, Lyft and Marijuana Industry Group Partner to Stop Coloradans from Driving High

Source: ABC DENVER7

Visit Colorado’s Number-One Spot for Busting Foreign Marijuana Growers

The headline of a post published in Westword last year posed the question, “Is Pueblo the Drug Bust Capital of Colorado?”

Source: WESTWORD

US Law Firm Helping Cannabis Companies Tap Into Israel

With a growing cannabis industry in the United States in recent years–to keep up–a new area of legal practice is growing up to provide services to companies with needs ranging from navigating regulatory hurdles to assisting with finance issues.

Source: LAW.COM

Amazon Warehouse Deal Bonus: 65 Pounds of Marijuana

It’s funny and bizarre, but it’s also scary from a business viewpoint.

Source: INC.

Raids on Marijuana Grow Houses Often Find Chinese ‘Farmers’ Inside

Chinese immigrants have been arrested in multiple recent police raids on marijuana grow houses in California, Colorado and other states, raising questions about how they are recruited.

Source: SACRAMENTO BEE

11% Of Government Employees In D.C. Area Have Bought Legal Marijuana, Survey Suggests

Of the survey respondents who were government employees, 11% had bought marijuana legally, slightly higher than the 8% overall rate, and government employees accounted for 16.7% of the total number of buyers.

Source: FORBES

29 States Have Legal Pot. Jeff Sessions Wants to Stamp It Out, and He’s Closer Than You Think

One of the only thing stopping Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions from cracking down on medical pot is an obscure budget amendment passed almost as an afterthought late in the Obama administration. Now Congress may rescind it.