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Cory Gardner’s siege of the Justice Department over marijuana enters second month

It’s been a month since the pot-blockade began and U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner is standing firm in his vow to jam all appointments to the Department of Justice until Attorney General Jeff Sessions changes his approach to federal marijuana policy.

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“We’re going to do something about it”: Oregon’s federal prosecutor holds summit on black market marijuana

Oregon’s top federal prosecutor convened a marijuana summit Friday to hear how state leaders plan to address the black market.

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San Francisco plans to erase thousands of marijuana convictions

San Francisco’s district attorney says his office will toss out or reduce thousands of criminal convictions for marijuana dating back decades.

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Colorado marijuana deliveries could be arriving this fall, if legislature agrees

A new Colorado bill aims to establish a marijuana delivery pilot program in the state, allowing for home-delivered medical and recreational cannabis.

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California marijuana demand greater than legal distribution network can handle

Cannabis dispensaries and others are concerned that too few operators have been licensed to support a pipeline of growers, distributors and retailers.

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Authorities raid marijuana grow, lab in Woodland Park

Authorities say marijuana and hash oil were seized after raiding an illegal grow and processing lab in a rural area in central Colorado.

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After sounding alarm about increased crime, Sessions credits Trump with crime rate drop in first half of 2017

Sessions is making the case Trump administration anti-crime policies are working, even though the trend already was apparent when he repeatedly warned that crime was out of control.

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Polis, Buck butt heads on spending bill amendment to protect state-legal marijuana

Colorado Reps. Jared Polis and Ken Buck butted heads in a House Rules Committee meeting over a proposed federal amendment protecting state-legal marijuana.

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Congressmen: Rescinding marijuana banking guidance would be “dangerous and imprudent”

A letter from Reps. Perlmutter and Heck in support of Obama-era marijuana banking guidance has been signed by 29 additional members of Congress

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19 state attorneys general back Colo. Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s marijuana banking bill

The recent rescission of prior Obama-era guidance from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) for banks doing business with marijuana firms has made the need for Congressional action more urgent, the attorneys general said.

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