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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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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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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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America’s mass incarceration problem in 5 charts — or, why Sessions shouldn’t bring back mandatory minimums

Today, the United States is a world leader in incarceration, but this has not always been the case.

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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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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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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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Four governors team up, urge feds to keep marijuana enforcement status quo

In an open letter sent Monday, the governors ask Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to “engage with us before embarking on any changes to regulatory and enforcement systems.”

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DEA asks Colorado AG’s office for info on marijuana crimes, “for the new administration”

The Drug Enforcement Administration has requested basic information about marijuana cases from the Colorado attorney general’s office, a move that comes amid speculation over how the Trump administration will approach cannabis legalization in Colorado and other states.

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