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Patrol

Marijuana Legalization Leading In All States Where On November Ballot

Marijuana advocates are heading into the final weeks of the 2016 campaign with the wind at their backs as the latest polling shows legalization measures currently favored by voters in all five states where they're on the ballot.

October 7, 2016

Technology

Hound Labs Inc. Announces Successful Field Trials of Marijuana Breathalyzer with Law Enforcement

Hound Labs Inc. announced today that it has field-tested its marijuana breathalyzer, tested by law enforcement at the roadside, and the portable breathalyzer can detect and measure recently consumed THC in breath from consumption of both smoked and edible marijuana products.

September 13, 2016

Patrol

Legal Weed States Have Trouble Defining "High" Driving

It turns out, measuring a person's THC is actually a poor indicator of intoxication. Unlike alcohol, THC gets stored in your fat cells, and isn't water-soluble like alcohol, says Thomas Marcotte, co-director of The Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research at the University of California, San Diego.

September 7, 2016

Patrol

U.S. Court Upholds Gun Buying Ban for Medical-Marijuana Users

Gun purchases are off limits in the U.S. to anyone who uses medical marijuana or holds a state-approved medicinal marijuana card, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

September 1, 2016

Patrol

Appeals Court Rules Residency In Marijuana Legal State Not Justification for Police Search

By a 2-1 vote, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver said two Kansas Highway Patrol officers violated the constitutional rights of Colorado motorist Peter Vasquez in December 2011 by pulling him over and searching his car after he had been driving alone at night on Interstate 70.

August 25, 2016

Patrol

DEA Says "No" to Loosening Marijuana Restrictions

The gap between permissive state laws and a restrictive federal policy has become increasingly untenable in the minds of many doctors, patients, researchers, business owners, and legislators.

August 11, 2016

Training

Baltimore Chief Wants State to Relax Restrictions on Past Marijuana Use for Recruits

Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis wants to relax a hiring policy for police officers in Maryland that disqualifies applicants for past marijuana use, saying it is "fundamentally inconsistent with where we are as a society" and hurts local hiring efforts.

July 22, 2016

Special Units

Video: Investigators Suspect Drug Cartel Involved in Ohio Family Murders

A law enforcement source confirmed investigators found some 200 marijuana plants. They were inside an indoor grow operation that was found in some of the homes where the eight members of the Rhoden family were executed.

April 26, 2016

Patrol

Ohio Slaying Of 8 Family Members Was 'Pre-Planned Execution'

Authorities are scrambling to determine who killed eight family members in a "pre-planned execution" that has shaken residents in their rural southern Ohio community.

April 25, 2016

Patrol

Delaware Decriminalizes Marijuana

Being caught with a small amount of marijuana in Delaware will, in most circumstances, no longer come with threats of prison time, hefty fines, or a criminal record.

December 18, 2015

Technology

Cannabix Technologies Testing Marijuana Breathalyzer Prototype

With marijuana legalization one big step closer to becoming a reality in Canada, a Vancouver company says it has developed a prototype device for catching drug-impaired drivers.

November 20, 2015

Patrol

NJ Man Busted After Pot Found Visibly in Car at Police Station

A Toms River, NJ, man who was appearing in traffic court Thursday was arrested after officers found his car illegally parked at the police station with marijuana inside.

November 17, 2015