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New Hampshire Officers Post Funny Sign at Site of Marijuana Seizure

Officers with the Marlborough (NH) Police Department left a sign with a message for the grower of 25 illegal marijuana plants. "Sorry about your luck. Plants may be claimed, in person, at the Marlborough Police Department. Please bring your photo ID."

August 27, 2018

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Legal Weed Putting Some Canadian Police Dogs Out of Work

"Our interdiction dogs are often used to form grounds to continue searching or to arrest people," said Staff Sgt. Gary Creed, a senior trainer with the RCMP's police dog service in Innisfail, Alberta., where all of the national police force's dogs are trained. If they are trained to sniff marijuana, some of their evidence would not be admissible in court, he said.

July 25, 2018

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President Trump’s Supreme Court Short List Shrinks

The president may make an announcement about his pick as soon as Monday, some speculate.

July 6, 2018

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NYPD Unveils New Policy to “Reduce Unnecessary Marijuana Arrests”

According to NYPD projections, the new policy will likely reduce overall marijuana arrests in New York City by about 10,000 per year based on 2017 arrest records and patterns.

June 21, 2018

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Two Hospitalized After Unwittingly Consuming ‘Edibles’

Two hotel housekeepers in Vermont were hospitalized Wednesday after they unknowingly ate marijuana edibles.

June 14, 2018

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Minneapolis Police Cease Undercover Marijuana Operations

The Minneapolis Police Department has ordered its officers to discontinue sting operations that target “low-level” marijuana possession and sales.

June 8, 2018

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Nebraska State Patrol On Track to Break Marijuana Busts Record

The Nebraska State Patrol said they've already confiscated more than 4,500 pounds of marijuana this year and it's only May.

May 11, 2018

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K-9s Would Have to be Killed if Illinois Legalizes Pot, Official Says

Legalizing marijuana in Illinois could lead to possible euthanasia or early retirement for law enforcement K-9s in the state already trained to sniff out the drug, according to Macon County officials.

May 9, 2018

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North Carolina Agency Offers Munchies to People Arrested on 4/20 Weed Holiday

Photos of a holding cell stocked with Oreos, Coca-Cola and Cha-Ching wavy potato chips in a bowl accompanied the post. A pair of handcuffs was casually placed next to the Oreos.

April 20, 2018

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Trump Administration Ends Crackdown on Legal Marijuana

In conversation with Trump this week, Gardner said he was assured that the federal government would not interfere with Colorado's marijuana industry and that Trump would champion a new law that gives states the authority to set their own pot policies.

April 13, 2018

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San Francisco to Wipe Out Thousands of Marijuana Convictions

San Francisco will retroactively apply California's new marijuana legalization laws to prior convictions, expunging or reducing misdemeanor and felony convictions dating back to 1975, the district attorney's office announced Wednesday.

January 31, 2018

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Former California A.G. Launches Cannabis Company

Bill Lockyer has experience fighting Washington on the issue of legal marijuana. He is among a small but growing group of people making the switch from government to the cannabis industry.

January 11, 2018