Law and Politics

22 May

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WSU researchers need volunteers to smoke marijuana for study

• May 22, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

PULLMAN, Wash. - Researchers at Washington State University are looking for volunteers for a study to develop a breathalyzer that detec...

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21 May

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Medical marijuana advocates in Orlando call for special session to end legal uncertainty

• May 21, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Medical marijuana advocates and local lawmakers gathered in Orlando on Thursday to call for a special session in the Florida Legislatur...

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21 May

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Vermont’s legal marijuana bill faces final hurdle in Republican governor

• May 21, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Phil Scott, the first-term Republican governor of Vermont, has until Wednesday to act on a bill that would make his state the ninth in ...

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21 May

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Who’s against the new pot legalization bill in NJ? You’d be surprised

• May 21, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Ricardo Rivera was alone, surrounded by a crush of reporters and lobbyists, when he watched the unveiling Monday of a bill that would f...

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21 May

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Marijuana, cocaine and money seized in Waynesboro

• May 21, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

WAYNESBORO — Three people were arrested in a drug bust in Waynesboro this week. The Waynesboro Police SWAT Team and Skyline Dr...

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21 May

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The Future of Driving, comsuming Marijuana, And Being Stoned Behind The Wheel

• May 21, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

I’m not a fan of driving while stoned — mostly because it makes me super paranoid — but I know plenty of other people who swear by it. ...

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20 May

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Strange bedfellows Coffman, DeGette fight feds’ marijuana meddling

• May 20, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

It’s a marriage made over marijuana; specifically, Colorado voters’ decision to legalize it in 2012, and the federal government’s seemi...

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20 May

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State Approves Forms For Marijuana, Prevailing Wage Petitions

• May 20, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

From the Associated Press — Groups that want to legalize recreational marijuana and repeal a law that requires union-level wages on sta...

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20 May

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DeGette, Coffman Introduce Bill to Respect States’ Rights on Marijuana

• May 20, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

Washington, DC – Representatives Diana DeGette (CO-01) and Mike Coffman (CO-06) today introduced a bill to ensure that the federal gove...

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20 May

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Could Jeff Sessions’ new order hinder NFLPA’s push for marijuana policy change?

• May 20, 2017
• By Shelby Pierce

In a two-page memo issued to his staff and made publicly available last Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered federal prosecut...

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