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Why Jeff Sessions’ marijuana crackdown will make legalization more likely

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who hates marijuana, may get what he wants for now. But in the end he probably did a great service to the legalization movement.

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Trump signs stopgap spending bill extending federal medical marijuana protections for a few more weeks

“Patients around the country who rely on medical marijuana for treatment–and the businesses that serve them–now have some measure of certainty,” said Rep. Earl Blumenauer. “Our fight, however, continues to maintain these important protections in the next funding bill passed by Congress.”

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Opioid epidemic shares chilling similarities with the past

While declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency Thursday, President Donald Trump said: “Nobody has seen anything like what’s going on now.”

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Opioid commission members pessimistic that Trump, Congress will act

Members of Trump’s commission to combat the opioid epidemic are increasingly worried the Trump administration will not have a robust response.

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Spending bill eyes cuts to disaster relief to fund Trump’s border wall

Disaster relief after Harvey-caused epic flooding in Texas tops an already crowded agenda when President Donald Trump meets next week with House and Senate leaders at the White House.

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Trump worried Americans might be clobbered by “sacks of drugs” thrown over border wall

President Donald Trump said his proposed border wall would have to be “transparent” to prevent Americans from being killed by 60-pound sacks of drugs tossed over from the Mexican side.

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It took the Trump Administration just a month to turn Obama-era drug policy on its head

In the month of May alone, the Trump administration steadily ratcheted up its tough-on-crime rhetoric and put in place some policies that give that rhetoric some real-world bite.

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“He lied to me”: Trump’s budget lets down families hit by drug addiction crisis

Trump’s budget proposal cuts insurance coverage for addiction treatment and funding for research and prevention, moves some are taking as a betrayal of campaign promises.

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Colorado governor suggests he may veto pot clubs bill without changes

Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday expressed reservations about two major pieces of marijuana legislation in Colorado — in one case citing concerns about the Donald Trump administration’s potential crackdown.

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Sessions: More violence around marijuana than ‘one would think’

“I am definitely not a fan of expanded use of marijuana,” he said. “But states, they can pass the laws they choose.”

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