Article by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post via The Denver Post New details released by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department last weekend indicated that suspected marijuana use was a key factor in police officers’ decision to approach Keith Lamont Scott in a confrontation that turned fatal. Plainclothes officers were sitting in an unmarked car waiting to serve a warrant in an ...

Article by Kasia Gregorczyk and J.R. Oppenheim, KOB4 State lawmakers will be arriving in Santa Fe Friday for a much-anticipated special session, where they will try to hammer out a solution to the state’s budget crisis and possibly talk about reinstating the death penalty.  … One House representative has an idea for how to being revenue to state. To combat ...

Article by Steven Nelson, US News Congress has offered the public an unusual civics lesson: A piece of legislation can pass both houses of Congress and never reach the president’s desk – and veterans seeking easier access to medical marijuana aren’t amused. The House and Senate in quick succession passed a spending package Wednesday that will keep the government fully ...

Article by Kristen Wyatt, The Associated Press via Metro News Wondering if that brownie contains pot? Colorado has you covered. A requirement that edible marijuana products come with a diamond-shaped stamp and the letters T-H-C — not just on the packaging but on the brownies, candies and other edibles themselves — takes effect Saturday. The rule referencing marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient ...

Article by Marc Stewart, ABC 7 Denver At Starbuds on Evans Avenue in Denver and at dispensaries across the state, pot sales are strong.  July transactions set a record.  But a force outside of Colorado could wilt the success. Voters in Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Arizona and California could all give the green light for recreational sales this November, extinguishing the ...

Article by The Associated Press via Metro News Albanian police say they have seized three metric tons of cannabis and destroyed some 13,000 plants in a northern district. A statement Friday said that a day earlier in Mat, 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of the capital, Tirana, after three days of operation destroying the cannabis plants police found the half-dried ...

Article by Yes On 64 Today, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United, the nation’s largest state organization of nurses, announced that it has endorsed Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, which will be on the statewide ballot in November. “California Nurses believe strongly that the prohibition and criminalization of marijuana has ruined generations of lives, wasted hundreds of ...

Article by Mahita Gajanan, Time Colorado plans to distribute millions of dollars in surplus marijuana tax revenues to schools in an effort to prevent bullying. The money, totaling about $66 million, is available due to Proposition BB, which permits the state to keep the surplus tax revenues from marijuana,Denver7, an ABC affiliate, reported. About $2.9 million of the surplus funds ...

Article by Sam Levin, The Guardian Charlo Greene did not plan to curse on live television, but on 22 September 2014, the words came pouring out. Then a reporter for KTVA, a station in Alaska, Greene ended her segment on marijuana by revealing that she was a proponent of legalization – and was the owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, ...

Article by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post Speaking at a town hall at Youngstown State University over the weekend, Chelsea Clinton made a remark about the risks of marijuana usethat left many drug reform advocates scratching their heads. The daughter of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton suggested that legal marijuana use had contributed to the deaths of people who were using other ...