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Canada’s new mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenders are based on “very bad criminal law policy” and constitute a threat to public health as well as the concept of judicial proportionality, former Supreme Court of Cana…
Former Supreme Court Justice Blasts Minimum Sentences for Marijuana Offenders
April 2, 2012 | 3 views | No Comments
Federal Agents with DEA, IRS, Raid Marijuana Trade School Oaksterdam University
April 2, 2012 | 8 views | No Comments
OAKLAND – Federal agents swooped in Monday morning to search Oakland’s Oaksterdam University in Oakland, the state’s first cannabis industry training school. Agents with the U.S. Marshals Service, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Internal Revenue Service’s criminal investigation division are searching the university at the corner of 16th Street and Broadway, in the heart of the city’s widely recognized downtown cannabis-oriented district, authorities said. The university has been cordoned off by yellow caution tape. Arlette Lee, an IRS spokeswoman, said she could not say why the agents were there other than to [...]
D.C. Picks Six Companies To Grow Medical Marijuana
March 30, 2012 | 2 views | No Comments
The District has selected six companies to grow marijuana and supply medical cannabis to users — clearing the way for growers to start producing hundreds of plants in as little as a month. The Health Department is expected to announce Friday that it has selected the winning bidders for cultivating plants that will feed the [...]
Rasmussen Poll: 47% Say Legalize, Tax Marijuana
March 30, 2012 | 2 views | No Comments
Support for legalizing and taxing marijuana outmuscled opposition to it in the latest Rasmussen poll to ask respondents about the issue. Support was at 47%, while opposition was at 42%, with 10% undecided in the p…
This Week in Weed: March 25th-31st
March 30, 2012 | 3 views | No Comments
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