Starting next year, Oregon will decrease its current25 percent taxon recreational pot to 17 percent, with an option for cities and counties to collect up to an additional 3 percent more in taxes, if voters agree. Read article here: High Times
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Denver Seeks to Allow Marijuana in Bars and Restaurants
After a year and a half of retail pot sales in Colorado, activists have decided to take the concept of legal weed to the next level by campaigning to allow social pot consumption in businesses where booze is served. Read article here: High Times
Steelers’ Bell Seeks First Offender Program for Marijuana
Pittsburgh Steelers running backLe'VeonBell has applied for a first-offender's program on marijuana possession and driving under the influence charges, which could result in the charges being dismissed and his arrest record expunged, his attorney said … High Times
Holder Seeks To Avert Mandatory Minimum Sentences
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is set to announce Monday that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or large-scale drug organizations will no longer be charged with offenses that impose severe mandatory sentences. The new Justice Department policy is part of a comprehensive prison reform package that Holder will reveal in […]
Justice Dept Seeks To Curtail Stiff Drug Sentences
In a major shift in criminal justice policy, the Obama administration will move on Monday to ease overcrowding in federal prisons by ordering prosecutors to omit listing quantities of illegal substances in indictments for low-level drug cases, sidestepping federal laws that impose strict mandatory minimum sentences for drug-related offenses. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., […]
D.C. Council Bill Seeks To Decriminalize MJ
Marijuana advocates in the District have a few friends on the D.C. Council. D.C. Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) unveiled a bill Wednesday morning that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, according to WUSA9. Under the bill, anyone caught with less than one ounce of marijuana would face a civil penalty of a […]