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...And now a message from US Attorney Andrew Lelling; a Trump appointee who took office on Dec. 21 on his take regarding recreational marijuana dispensaries in Massachusetts.
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The top federal prosecutor in Massachusetts on Monday refused to rule out a crackdown on regulated marijuana companies, setting the state up as a front line in the war between President Trump’s administration and the dozens of states where cannabis is legal for recreational or medical use.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...ey/ESFSOneZK2FKF2WtBWyQkL/story.html#comments
 
macbill

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BLACK PEOPLE MORE PRONE TO EFFECTS OF MARIJUANA DUE TO 'GENETICS,’ ‘CHARACTER MAKEUP,’ KANSAS REPUBLICAN SAYS

Kansas State Representative Steve Alford said Sunday blacks are more affected by marijuana because of their “character makeup” and “their genetics” when trying to explain why drugs should be “outlawed” to a room of 60 people—none of whom were African American.

Alford made the comment during a legislative coffee session in response to a comment that marijuana would offer an economic boost to Kansas.
 
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macbill said:
Kansas State Representative Steve Alford said Sunday blacks are more affected by marijuana because of their “character makeup” and “their genetics” when trying to explain why drugs should be “outlawed” to a room of 60 people—none of whom were African American.
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Jesus Fucking Christ.

Remember to vote all of these motherfuckers out in November.
 
Tranquility

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CarolKing said:
I decided to put this here instead of under WA cannabis news.


Larry Harvey poses for a photo outside the federal courthouse in Spokane, Wash., on Feb. 12, 2015. Harvey, 71, was among a group of defendants known as the "Kettle Falls Five" in a federal case involving medical marijuana growers in rural Washington state. (Dan Pelle, The Spokesman-Review via AP)
Washington man at center of high-profile federal medical pot case dies
Larry Harvey, who had pancreatic cancer, and four others faced federal charges after they were caught growing medical marijuana on their rural property near Kettle Falls
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    COLVILLE, Wash. — A northeastern Washington man at the center of a nationally watched medical marijuana case has died of pancreatic cancer, six months after the federal government dropped charges against him.

    Larry Harvey was 71. He died Thursday in a hospital in Colville, Washington.

    Harvey and four others — including his wife, two relatives and a friend — faced charges after they were caught about three years ago growing about 70 pot plants on their rural property near Kettle Falls. They were known as the “Kettle Falls Five.”

    Harvey said he used the drug to ease pain from gout, but the government argued that the operation did not comply with the state’s medical marijuana law.

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    The case outraged medical marijuana advocates because Harvey faced at least 10 years in prison. Also, while marijuana use remains illegal under federal law, its recreational and medical use is legal in Washington.
I wonder how the stress that this elderly gentleman had to go through attributed to a quicker death. The family should be able to sue the Federal Government.
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Apparently, the Trump administration, under Sessions, has stopped prosecution of three of the five arrested and prosecuted by the Obama administration.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4343300/Kettle-Falls-Five-Dismissal.pdf
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jan/03/3-of-kettle-falls-five-pot-convictions-vacated/

Because the dismissal was "without prejudice", it is possible some of the charges can be refiled. I suspect they won't be.
 
florduh

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OldNewbie said:
Apparently, the Trump administration, under Sessions, has stopped prosecution of three of the five arrested and prosecuted by the Obama administration.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4343300/Kettle-Falls-Five-Dismissal.pdf
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jan/03/3-of-kettle-falls-five-pot-convictions-vacated/

Because the dismissal was "without prejudice", it is possible some of the charges can be refiled. I suspect they won't be.
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This is great news. Though forgive me if I'm not ready to throw Jeff Sessions a ticker tape parade just yet.

Two days after the dismissal, on the same day Sessions tore up the Cole Memo, he appointed a new US Attorney to the Eastern District of Washington. I'm sure it was just a coincidence.
 
Tranquility

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Ticker tape for 'ol Jeffey? You can be assured there is no one reading who will attend. But, for Jeffey to reach the evil of Obama...I just don't see it. (Some might say, that as in the case of the Five, it is the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment hat has limited the Administration(s) and not a memo. If 'ol Jeffey gets Congress to not renew that, then we might see a reversion to the dark times of Obama.)

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/obama-pot-_n_3479283.html
 
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florduh

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This is good news, I guess.
http://bangordailynews.com/2018/01/...ys-he-will-focus-on-hard-drugs-not-pot-users/
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I'm not 100% convinced yet.

The US Attorney said:

“We have also prosecuted large-scale marijuana distribution organizations and did so even while operating under the recently rescinded DOJ guidance. Prosecution of drug possession cases has not been a priority.”

I was never concerned that the Feds would start prosecuting end users. I am concerned that they will work to dismantle the legal cannabis market. Nothing this guy said has quelled my fears.
 
mitchgo61

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florduh said:
I'm not 100% convinced yet.

The US Attorney said:

“We have also prosecuted large-scale marijuana distribution organizations and did so even while operating under the recently rescinded DOJ guidance. Prosecution of drug possession cases has not been a priority.”

I was never concerned that the Feds would start prosecuting end users. I am concerned that they will work to dismantle the legal cannabis market. Nothing this guy said has quelled my fears.
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I don't disagree, but at the moment there is no retail structure here in ME to disrupt. The only legal sales are MMJ and they cannot currently go after that. The only likely affect this will have here is to further delay the setup of retail recreational business, which, unfortunately, our minority-elected governor has been trying to do since we passed the law.

(The one "large scale" operation they disrupted was a farm the feds had been investigating under Obama....it went on for over three years before they finally busted the guy. He had 1000s of kilos of weed....it was most definitely "large scale".)
 
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Silver420Surfer

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Vermont Senate passes recreational marijuana bill, gov has said he’ll sign


MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont is poised to become the first state in the country to approve the recreational use of marijuana by an act of the Legislature rather than through a citizen referendum.


The state Senate approved [URL='https://legislature.vermont.gov/bill/status/2018/H.511']bill H.511 Wednesday by voice vote. Republican Gov. Phil Scott has indicated he would sign the bill, which was approved by the House last week.


The bill would allow adults over 21 to possess of up to 1 ounce of marijuana and have two mature marijuana plants or four immature plants. The legislation does not contain a mechanism to regulate the production and sale of marijuana, as has been done in some other states.

Scott [URL='http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/05/24/vermont-marijuana-legalization-governor-phil-scott-veto/80190/']vetoed similar legislation last May.[/URL][/URL]
http://www.thecannabist.co/2018/01/10/vermont-marijuana-recreational-senate-vote/96455/
Some backers of the proposal call it a baby step and they hope the Legislature will pass a tax-and-regulation system.


This story is developing and will be updated.


:rockon::tup: Fuck you Sessions!!





http://www.thecannabist.co/2018/01/10/vermont-marijuana-recreational-senate-vote/96455/
 
macbill

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CarolKing

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Ha Ha WA DC’s flea markets sounds just like our farmers medical cannabis markets we used to have in WA state before legal cannabis. We could find all kinds of edibles, creams, waxes and shatters plus 60 different cannabis flowers or more to choose from. These were all sold at reasonable prices. We cannot have farmers markets any longer. It’s only sold in WA state stores. Everything is followed with a barcode from seed to sale of the products.
 
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