Law & Crime

Law Enforcement Is Trying To Be Cannabis Cool, But It’s Not Easy - Cannabis News

How is a cop supposed to tell the difference between a consumer using a legal product, and an illegal consumer using or transporting a product from the illicit market?

Kansas City, MO mayor to pardon municipal violations for marijuana possession - Cannabis News

Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Quinton Lucas said he will begin pardoning those who have received municipal violations for marijuana possession and those non-violent offenders who were convicted for having marijuana drug paraphernalia.

How do police officers spot high drivers? - Cannabis News

It’s been over a month since recreational marijuana sales have been made legal in Illinois and medical marijuana was legalized in Missouri. So how do police officers spot high drivers on the road?

Colorado bill would protect employees from dismissal for off-duty cannabis use - Cannabis News

Lawmakers in Colorado are considering a measure that, if passed, could have wide-reaching implications on a controversial issue: employees facing dismissal from their places of work due to off-duty cannabis use.

Austin police will stop arrests, tickets in most low-level marijuana cases - Cannabis News

The decision to back away from pursuing criminal charges against people with small amounts of pot comes after state lawmakers legalized hemp last year in a way that threw marijuana prosecution into chaos.

‘Cruel and unusual’: Kansas resident faces decades in prison for medical marijuana use - Cannabis News

Kansas native Larry Burgess has spent nearly three years living in Colorado. He doesn’t know where he’ll be spending the next three years—whether in his newly-adopted home state or on probation or in prison in Kansas.

Marijuana Record Expungement Movement Growing Rapidly, Report Shows - Cannabis News

More state and local governments are signing onto not just marijuana legalization, but record expungement as well.

Pot seizures jumped at U.S. border in the year after Canada legalized cannabis - Cannabis News

Marijuana seizures at the U.S. border jumped in the year after Canada legalized recreational cannabis.

Medical marijuana advocates urge Tennessee police not to oppose new legislation - Cannabis News

Currently, Tennessee is among a dwindling number of states where marijuana has been neither decriminalized nor legalized for medical or recreational use.

Illinois Governor Issues More Than 11,000 Pardons For Low-Level Marijuana Convictions - Cannabis News

Gov. JB Pritzker has pardoned more than 11,000 people convicted of misdemeanor marijuana cases, in the first step toward clearing the records of hundreds of thousands of low-level pot convictions, a day before the state legalizes cannabis in 2020.


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