Published: Oct 11, 2017, 9:29 am • Updated: Oct 11, 2017, 9:29 am By The Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee prosecutors say a 20-year-old man used Facebook Live to arrange marijuana sales. Charging documents from the Milwaukee District Attorney’s Office released Wednesday say Jeffery S. Kirk interacted with people on Facebook Live and told them […]
Published: Oct 4, 2017, 8:19 am • Updated: Oct 4, 2017, 3:18 pm By John Frank and Jesse Paul, The Denver Post Colorado lawmakers’abbreviated special session ended Tuesday in political finger-pointing without resolving a mistake by lawmakers that is costing the Regional Transportation District and other entities across the state millions of dollars. A Republican-led […]
Published: Oct 13, 2017, 8:29 am • Updated: Oct 13, 2017, 8:29 am By Randy Wyrick, Vail Daily EAGLE — Suicide kills an American every 12 minutes — 44,000 Americans every year and 10 in Eagle County so far this year. “Think about that,” said Andrew Romanoff, with Mental Health Colorado. “If someone attacked the […]
Adam Eidinger may be Washington’s best-known cannabis crusader. He led a successful campaign to decriminalize possession and private use of small amounts of pot. He held a smoke-in outside the White House that featured a 51-foot replica of a joint. And he’s been arrested nearly two dozen times. But Eidinger says he reached the limit […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says he will work to oppose a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana in the state. The Republican governor said in a statement Thursday that he believe the proposal has major flaws and lacks safeguards for the growing and distribution of marijuana that “would potentially open the […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. health regulators on Monday approved the first prescription drug made from marijuana, a milestone that could spur more research into a drug that remains illegal under federal law, despite growing legalization for recreational and medical use. The Food and Drug Administration approved the medication, called Epidiolex, to treat two rare forms of […]
Published: Jan 22, 2018, 1:23 pm • Updated: Jan 22, 2018, 1:23 pm By Robert O’Harrow Jr., The Washington Post A former Trump campaign worker appointed at age 23 to a top position in the White House’s drug policy office had been let go from a job at a law firm because he repeatedly missed […]
Published: Dec 15, 2017, 1:15 pm • Updated: Dec 15, 2017, 3:44 pm By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun LAS VEGAS — Officials want to make Las Vegas the country’s first city to allow marijuana smoking lounges, and hope to do so by March or April of 2018. “We’re still trying to work out the […]
Published: Aug 2, 2017, 7:25 am • Updated: Aug 2, 2017, 7:25 am By Danica Coto, The Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Jesus Aponte pushes a door open to reveal hundreds of aromatic, spiky green plants, a crop that Puerto Rico hopes will help it ease a grinding economic crisis by generating millions […]
Published: Jan 11, 2018, 12:10 pm • Updated: Jan 11, 2018, 12:10 pm By The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey lawmakers kicked off the new session by again introducing legislation to legalize marijuana. Democratic state Sen. Nicholas Scutari introduced the measure allowing the recreational use of marijuana on Tuesday, the same day the […]