The 2019 end-of-year report finds that the number of federal defendants charged with cannabis-associated crimes declined 28 percent.
Category: Federal
BREAKING: Bill To End Marijuana Prohibition Passes Key Committee
“This is a truly historic moment in our nation’s political history. For the first time, a Congressional committee has approved far-reaching legislation to not just put an end to federal marijuana prohibition, but to address the countless harms our prohibitionist policies have wrought, notable on communities of color and other already marginalized groups.”
URGENT: Biggest Marijuana News of the Year
We won’t lie, this is HUGE.
URGENT: Biggest Marijuana News of the Year
We won’t lie, this is HUGE.
Rick Steves: Let’s Make a Better America Together
“Today, Congress will hold its first hearing on the federal criminalization of marijuana. This is a big day: after patient years of steady gains one state at a time, we’re finally ready for serious marijuana policy reform at the federal level.” – Rick Steves
New Federal Legislation To Quantify The Health and Economic Impacts Of Regulated Marijuana
Reps. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) and Carlos Curbelo (FL-26) led a group of bipartisan lawmakers in introducing The Marijuana Data Collection Act. The act calls upon the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to collect and synthesize relevant data and to generate a formal report to Congress quantifying the impact of statewide marijuana legalization on matters specific to public health, safety, the economy, and criminal justice, among other issues.
Don’t Let Congress Roll Back Marijuana Protections
Tell your federal officials to maintain this common sense protection for the 30 state medical marijuana programs and the 2,000,000 plus registered patients nationwide.
Last Chance To Protect Medical Marijuana Patients and Providers From Jeff Sessions
Today is the final day that Congress has to pass a short-term budget to fund the federal government and it’s up to us to make sure that lawmakers reauthorize the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment. This critical amendment stops Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice from targeting state-sanctioned medical marijuana patients, growers, caregivers, and providers.
Trump Should Abolish the Drug Czar’s Office
There is no place for ‘Czars’ in today’s American government, particularly those like Marino who still cling to the outdated and failed drug war policies and misplaced ideologies of the past.
Sessions’ DOJ Reviewing Marijuana Enforcement, Governors Fight Back
This week, Attorney General Jeff “Marijuana Consumers Aren’t Good People” Sessions issued a memo outlining a requested task force inquiry into a number of public safety issues, one of which being the enforcement of federal marijuana laws.
The memo was sent to 94 U.S. Attorney’s Offices and Department of Justice component heads to provide “an update on the Department¹s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety.”