Video discussion: What might a federal crackdown on cannabis look like?

Published: Jul 24, 2017, 2:43 pm • Updated: Jul 24, 2017, 5:48 pm By Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg View I support marijuana legalization, but I wish pot smokers would stop stinking up the sidewalks. I’m not alone. In places where using marijuana no longer carries the threat of a jail sentence, the pungent odor of ganja…

Published: Feb 21, 2018, 12:30 pm • Updated: Feb 22, 2018, 9:47 am By Dan Zak, The Washington Post. WASHINGTON – Everybody went to high school with Matt Gaetz, in some form. You know the type. Contrarian, but well-argued. Obnoxious, but not a bully. An OK baseball player, but a much better debater: loud, fast…

Published: Nov 3, 2017, 8:49 am • Updated: Nov 3, 2017, 8:49 am By The Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska — State revenue generated by Alaska’s legal marijuana industry continues to grow. The state says it collected more than $720,000 in excise taxes from cultivators in September, the most recent month for which data is available….

Published: Dec 19, 2017, 10:29 am • Updated: Dec 19, 2017, 10:29 am By Kimberlee Kruesi, The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho — A small-business owner with hopes of selling oil extracted from cannabis plants in staunchly anti-marijuana Idaho has found himself in conflict with local officials who say such products might be illegal in the…

More than 110 pounds of marijuana was seized and two people were arrested following the bust of an illegal marijuana grow operation in El Paso County on Wednesday. Members of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Rural Enforcement Outreach, SWAT, Crime Reduction Unit and the Metro Vice Narcotics Intelligence executed two search warrants Wednesday at…

Published: Mar 7, 2017, 7:28 am • Updated: Mar 7, 2017, 2:30 pm By Kristen Wyatt, The Associated Press Colorado is moving toward limiting growing marijuana at home under a bill that sets a max of 12 plants per residential property. A House committee voted 11-2 Monday to curb the nation’s most generous allowances for…