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Welcome to our end of the year wrap-up post for The Week in Weed; it’s hard to believe another year has come and (almost) gone, but the calendar doesn’t lie. In what we are calling an homage to Dave Barry and his always hilarious Year in Review, we’ll organize these stories by month.
Without further ado, here’s a look at the stories that grabbed our attention in 2018.
Continue Reading The Week, No Make that the Year, in Weed: 2018
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Although tracking politicians’ changing views on marijuana has become something of a regular feature here on The Week in Weed, one public official who is unlikely to change his stance is Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
California, Oregon and other marijuana-friendly states are seeking a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in hopes of resolving the conflict between federal and…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: April 6, 2018
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Protections for medical marijuana programs were included in the recently passed budget bill.
The amendment to protect state-approved medical cannabis programs, known as the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, has been included…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: March 30, 2018
It’s only the second week of January, and it has already been a wild year in the cannabis industry. First, legal sales of recreational marijuana started in California, and then Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memorandum. What next? Here are seven stories to follow in 2018.
Continue Reading And Now for the Rest of the Year
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at legalized marijuana. And what a week it was! From California’s legalization of recreational pot to the rescinding of the Cole Memorandum, this has been a roller coaster ride for the industry.
Let’s start with California’s legalization:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California on Monday becomes the nation’s largest state to offer legal recreational marijuana sales.
For the Bay Area’s cannabis community, legalization means reckoning with capitalism never imagined in Haight-Ashbury’s “turn on, tune in, drop out” ethos of the late ’60s.Continue Reading The Week in Weed: January 5, 2018
According to reports appearing this morning in the New York Times and the Washington Post, Attorney General Sessions is expected to rescind the Cole Memorandum later today. The Cole Memorandum is a Department of Justice policy that strongly discourages federal prosecutors from enforcing federal marijuana laws in states in which possession and use of marijuana is legal under state…
Continue Reading Breaking News: Department of Justice to Rescind Cole Memorandum
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Documents reveal the AG is seeking approval to crack down on marijuana in states that have passed pro-pot laws.
See TBT’s take on this…
Continue Reading The Week in Weed: June 16, 2017
We recently reported on the inclusion of the Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment in the current Congressional budget deal. The controversy over whether the Justice Department should be permitted to enforce federal laws in states where marijuana is legal for medical purposes only seemed settled, at least until the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2017 expires in late September. Due to the signing statement that President Trump issued when approving the Act, however, we may have blogged too soon.
Continue Reading Reading the Signs: Is a Marijuana Crackdown in Our Future?
The appointment of Jeff Sessions as Attorney General created a great deal of uncertainty in the medical marijuana community. Sessions has a long history of opposing the legalization of marijuana, whether for medical or recreational purposes. “Marijuana is against federal law, and that applies in states where they may have repealed their own anti-marijuana laws. So yes, we will enforce law in an appropriate way nationwide,” Sessions said in an interview with radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt in March.
Continue Reading See You in September: Rohrabacher-Farr Amendment in Budget Deal
