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A Los Angeles lawyer has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for his involvement in large-scale marijuana cultivation operations in Sacramento and Sutter counties. Nathan Hoffman, 57, was sentenced Tuesday in Sacramento by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez for conspiring to...

A 30-year-old Mexican national has been sentenced to three years in prison for running a large illegal marijuana operation that caused extensive damage to a large prehistoric Tűbatulabal archaeological site, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced Monday. Rafael Torres-Armenta (Torres) had...

A Colorado man, who shot a pair of would-be pot purchasers who became upset when they realized they'd been duped with a bag of broccoli, was sentenced to 16 years in prison last week. Sababu Colbert-Evans, 26, of Aurora, Colo. was sentenced on July 21, according to Fox 31 Denver. Colbert-Evans...

Washington, DC: Eight percent of defendants sentenced to federal prison in 2015 were convicted of violating marijuana laws, according to a June 2016 federal report issued by the United States Sentencing Commission. According to the report, the US government prosecuted 71,184 cases in 2015 in...