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Nevada regulators have cunning plan to keep July 1 recreational marijuana sales on track

Nevada regulators reaffirmed Friday that they intend to issue licenses necessary for retailers to begin selling pot for recreational use on July 1, despite a court order that threatens to scuttle the plan.

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Cannabis industry organization forms to “be ready” for national legalization

Three Colorado businesses are among the National Association of Cannabis Businesses’s seven founding members.

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Mexico’s former president slams Trump and Sessions in keynote at Cannabis Summit

Former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox, delivered a keynote address to a crowd full of cannabis industry businesses at the Cannabis Summit in California.

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein: “From a legal and scientific perspective, marijuana is an unlawful drug.”

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appeared before the Senate Appropriations committee to discuss the Justice Department’s budget, and was faced with questions on law enforcement, the investigation into Russia’s influence on the 2016 election and a question on the DOJ stance on marijuana.

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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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DEA seeks dismissal of hemp industry lawsuit fighting drug code for “marihuana extracts”

The Drug Enforcement Administration stands firm on its drug code for “marihuana extracts” in a brief filed Friday to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and seeks to have a federal lawsuit by the hemp industry dismissed.

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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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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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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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