Philadelphia DA drops 50 marijuana possession cases

The Cannabist
Denver, Colorado marijuana news, culture, resources

The Cannabist
Denver, Colorado marijuana news, culture, resources
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The owner of a Chicago convenience store and two employees have been charged with selling synthetic marijuana that has been linked to two deaths. Federal prosecutors have charged 48-year-old Fouad Masoud and 44-year-old Jad Allah, both of suburban Justice, and 44-year-old Adil Khan Mohammed of Chicago with conspiring to distribute and sell…
Published: Oct 11, 2017, 3:18 pm • Updated: Oct 11, 2017, 3:18 pm By Matt Bonesteel, The Washington Post Cleveland Browns wide receiver Josh Gordon has not played in an NFL game since December 2014, his NFL-mandated suspensions piling up one after the other. But now, in a short documentary for LeBron James’ Uninterrupted digital…
Published: Aug 7, 2017, 10:39 am • Updated: Aug 7, 2017, 12:09 pm By Joel Shannon, York Daily Record ABBOTSTOWN, Pa. — What would they think? His congregation. His representatives. All those people in the town hall. He didn’t look like a rebel. And he didn’t look like a stoner — because he wasn’t one….
Published: Sep 28, 2017, 8:34 am • Updated: Sep 28, 2017, 8:34 am By The Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine — A legislative committee plans to consider a bill to double the recreational marijuana sales tax to 20 percent and ban marijuana social clubs until 2019. The Legislature’s Joint Select Committee on Marijuana Legalization Implementation is…
Published: Jan 9, 2018, 4:43 pm • Updated: Jan 10, 2018, 8:43 am By Ryan J. Foley, Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa State University’s unconstitutional crackdown on a pro-marijuana student group’s T-shirts is expected to cost state taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal costs, according to a tentative settlement released Tuesday….
Published: Aug 8, 2017, 9:06 am • Updated: Aug 8, 2017, 9:28 am By Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post Deaths from drug overdoses rose sharply in the first nine months of 2016, the government reported Tuesday, releasing data that confirm the widely held belief that the opioid epidemic worsened last year despite stepped-up efforts by…