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Bipartisan legislation seeks to undermine Jeff Sessions’ sentencing memo

A bipartisan group of senators are introducing legislation to give federal judges more discretion to impose lower sentences, pushing back on Jeff Sessions’ order.

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Canada weighs risks and benefits of setting 18 as minimum age for weed use

The most controversial part of Canada’s national marijuana legalization may be setting the minimum age for use at 18 — three years lower than U.S. states that have legalized.

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Colorado lawmakers remain divided on whether you can smoke marijuana on your front porch

The question about where you can consume marijuana in Colorado continues to stress lawmakers, even as the state approaches five years of legalization.

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Colorado looks to marijuana tax as budget fix, stretching the limits of what voters approved

In last-minute negotiations between Colorado lawmakers on a major spending bill, a dubious budget-fixer has emerged: an increase in marijuana taxes. And it represents a little-noticed but significant shift in how Colorado spends marijuana tax dollars.

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Colorado leaves police free to help with pot crackdown

Colorado law enforcement officers are free to help in a potential federal marijuana crackdown.

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After meeting with Sessions, Colorado gov thinks AG unlikely to crack down on marijuana

After meeting with AG Jeff Sessions, Gov. John Hickenlooper says on “Meet the Press Daily” he thinks the AG is unlikely to crack down but won’t “encourage” marijuana biz “in any way.”

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Dispute over marijuana taxing authority in Colorado may continue — despite state bill designed to defuse it

Lawmakers are expected to pass a bill Monday to stop a standoff over local marijuana taxes, but that may not stop a protracted legal battle between Adams County and three of its cities from winding up at the state’s high court.

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Sessions’ right-hand man, Steven Cook, thinks Holder DOJ was “soft on crime”

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has brought Cook into the Justice Department to help undo the criminal justice policies of Obama and former AG Eric Holder Jr.

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Cannabis companies flock to Canada as US laws keep them off stock exchange

While more than half of U.S. states allow marijuana for medical or recreational use, the drug is still outlawed by the federal government, starving pot entrepreneurs of institutional capital.

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New law: Courts can’t force medical marijuana abstinence for users awaiting trial

Marijuana use can’t be banned while people await trial in Colorado, according to a new law signed by the governor Thursday.

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