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President-elect Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, represents a "worst-case scenario" for the future of legalized cannabis in Humboldt County, local officials said Friday. Sessions, a Republican and loyal supporter of Trump, has previously called marijuana...

An opinion issued Wednesday by Tennessee's Attorney General said the Memphis City Council's ordinance that decriminalizes marijuana possession is illegal. Attorney General Herbert Slatery said in the opinion the ordinance conflicts with the provisions of the state's Drug Control Act and the...

San Diego - The city attorney and the city's 14 regulated medical marijuana dispensaries are teaming up. They want medical marijuana users to only patronize the law-abiding clinics. Hard to believe, but the local weekly, San Diego Reader, with all of its medical marijuana dispensary ads in the...

San Diego - The city attorney and the city's 14 regulated medical marijuana dispensaries are teaming up. They want medical marijuana users to only patronize the law-abiding clinics. Hard to believe, but the local weekly, San Diego Reader, with all of its medical marijuana dispensary ads in the...

Marijuana is not the substance that pushes people to use harder drugs such as opioids, according to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. In a Richmond, Kentucky town hall meeting on Tuesday, Lynch told a group of high school students that prescription pills can have a greater chance of...

Juneau, Alaska - Alaska's attorney general says marijuana social clubs are illegal, addressing what had been a hazy area following the state's legalization of recreational pot. The opinion does not apply to licensed retail marijuana shops, for which state regulators are considering rules for...

Confused about Nevada Ballot Question Q2? Learn what Denver's District Attorney Mitchell Morrissey has experienced since passage of Colorado's recreational marijuana bill. Morrissey will be among a panel of guests scheduled to speak at the Sept. 13 Sierra Nevada Forums. The topic is...

Confused about Nevada Ballot Question Q2? Learn what Denver's District Attorney Mitchell Morrissey has experienced since passage of Colorado's recreational marijuana bill. Morrissey will be among a panel of guests scheduled to speak at the Sept. 13 Sierra Nevada Forums. The topic is...

For eight years, Rajuawn Middleton, an assistant at a major downtown law firm, lived in a four-bedroom, red-brick home she rented on a quiet, tree-lined street in Northeast Washington - until she was forced out over a few cigarettes containing a "green leafy substance." In March 2014 police...

For N.A. Poe, a marijuana-legalization activist from Philadelphia, running for state attorney general was a lark to draw attention to the issue. The state Republican and Democratic Parties didn't find it funny. Both parties filed legal challenges Monday seeking to remove Poe - a stage name...

The New Hampshire Attorney General's office is appealing a November court ruling that opened the door for state residents to obtain therapeutic cannabis in other states. The ruling allowed qualified patients waiting for the state's alternative treatment centers to open this spring to receive ID...

Arkansas' attorney general has now rejected seven marijuana ballot titles since taking office, the latest one on Wednesday. Little Rock Attorney David Couch, who filed two of them, plans to file an amended version next week. Most of the reasons given by Attorney General Leslie Rutledge for...

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana in Arkansas. The proposal by Mary Berry of Summit seeks to legalize the cultivation, production, sale, possession and use of the cannabis plant and all products produced by the...

Check out my girl Emily Shelton. Former prosecutor. Specializes in criminal, juvenile and family law. Her office is downtown (801 Congress) She is on Facebook and Twitter (@sheltonlaw) She is especially good at cases relating to search and seizure. Her voice mail number is 713.305.7915...