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During the campaign, Donald Trump endorsed medical marijuana and said pot legalization “should be a state issue, state-by-state.” Attorney General Jeff Sessions, on the other hand, is a fierce opponent of marijuana and has opposed measures that would limit the federal government’s ability to...

A judge in San Francisco, in the first known ruling of its kind, has halted federal prosecution of two North Coast marijuana growers because Congress has prohibited the Justice Department from interfering with states' medical marijuana laws. Anthony Pisarski and Sonny Moore pleaded guilty in...

School districts are in a quandary over students who use medical marijuana, with some fearing that any help they offer could land them in jail. Voters in November agreed to legalize pot for medical purposes but it's also a popular recreational drug considered illegal by the federal...

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., has recently introduced legislation to legalize marijuana at the federal level. His bill will no doubt inspire the standard criticisms, one of which is that legalization does not eliminate the black market. Kevin Sabet, director of the Drug Policy Institute, claims that...

The National Conference of State Legislatures, a body of hundreds of lawmakers representing all 50 states, passed a resolution this week urging the federal government to remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, signaling a significant shift towards marijuana legalization. The...

Two former Kern County Sheriff's deputies avoided prison time Monday for stealing and selling marijuana that was seized during drug busts. Logan August and Derrick Penney were sentenced Monday to three years' probation for the charge of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to...

It turns out seedlings dry out in the Montana sun quicker than the federal government can act. A 12-acre crop of hemp plants in the Helena Valley died after getting caught up in a legal dispute over water access this summer. Kim Phillips, the hemp farmer, was in full compliance with state...

This week, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, sponsored the Marijuana Justice Act of 2017. Without question, this is the most progressive piece of marijuana-related legislation ever filed in the United States Congress. It goes far beyond the popular Rohrabacher-Blumenauer legislation that...

One big question marijuana entrepreneurs will face in states like Massachusetts is whether federal agents will crack down on the state-sanctioned business, which is still illegal under federal law. At a gathering of policymakers from around the country on Monday, a lawmaker from Washington...

A New Jersey senator has fired a shot across the bow of the lead ship in the War on Drugs. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker has proposed the Marijuana Justice Act, which would legalize marijuana at the federal level and encourages states to legalize the narcotic through the use of financial incentives...

This week Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) introduced a sweeping bill that would not only legalize marijuana at the federal level, but would attempt to reverse the impact that the war on pot has had in poor and minority communities. The Marijuana Justice Act would remove marijuana from the list of...

former congressional aide was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of taking a bribe from a Compton marijuana shop, federal officials said. Michael Kimbrew, 44, was working as a field representative for former Rep. Janice Hahn out of Compton City Hall when he allegedly promised to "make things...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker introduced legislation Tuesday that would legalize marijuana at the federal level. Booker (D-N.J.) said current drug laws disproportionately hurt minority communities. "Our country's drug laws are badly broken and need to be fixed," Booker said. The Marijuana...

Senator Corey Booker introduced a bill Tuesday seeking to drop marijuana from America's list of controlled substances, making pot legal across the U.S. Federal law right now considers weed as dangerous as heroin and more dangerous than cocaine. The proposal rides a wave of recreational...

Presented today, a new congressional bill aims to get government and cannabis on the same side of the law by ending a decades-long federal ban on the plant. Introduced by New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, the 'Marijuana Justice Act of 2017' seeks to end federal prohibition of cannabis and...

If Sen. Cory Booker's new legislation is successful, the United States will be one step closer to legalizing marijuana. Refinery29 has learned that the New Jersey Democrat is introducing the Marijuana Justice Act today, a new bill that would remove cannabis from the U.S. list of controlled...

Sen. Cory Booker is introducing a longshot bill to incentive states to legalize marijuana. Legislation unveiled Tuesday from the New Jersey Democrat, who hasn't ruled out running for president in 2020, would remove cannabis from the federal scheduling system, which currently classifies the...

A Georgia father whose young son is treated with medical cannabis is part of a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the federal government's stance on marijuana. Filed this week, the lawsuit argues that a federal law that views marijuana as dangerous as heroin is irrational and...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the acting head of the Drug Enforcement Agency Charles Rosenberg have both been named in a new federal lawsuit challenging marijuana's Schedule I status as unconstitutional. The 89-page lawsuit was filed Monday in the Southern District of New York by...

Former Jets defensive end Marvin Washington is now tackling Attorney General Jeff Sessions – suing the head of the Department of Justice to decriminalize marijuana. Washington is one of five plaintiffs in a new Manhattan federal lawsuit against Sessions, the DOJ and the Drug Enforcement...