The Montana Marijuana Act is headed to Governor Brian Schweitzer's desk after both Houses of the Legislature passed, in a third reading, a bill which regulates the medical marijuana industry on Wednesday morning.
The U.S. attorney for Colorado warned state lawmakers Tuesday that pending legislation adjusting rules for medical marijuana would conflict with federal law and could lead to federal prosecutions.
U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag sent the city of Oakland a strong message Wednesday: big industrial pot farms are illegal and the Department of Justice is considering “civil and criminal legal remedies” if Oakland proceeds with its plans to permit them.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Canada’s doctors have shrugged-off the role of deciding who should be a medical marijuana patient, leaving the Conservative government holding the bag. Can the politicians salvage the MMAR or will pot be legal for all?
It was just three years ago when President Obama (then candidate Obama) famously pledged to no longer use federal "Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws" regulating the physician authorized use of medical cannabis. And it was in the fall of 2009 that the administration issued the Ogden memorandum to federal prosecutors directing them to not "focus federal resources ...