Topic: U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Federal pot case in Colorado highlights worry among growers of medical marijuanaPot smoker Chris Bartkowicz thought he had hit pay dirt, bragging to a local television station he would make $400,000 off a basement medical marijuana operation in a well-heeled Denver suburb ...
4 Colorado lawmakers ask US attorney general to stop medical marijuana raids A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers trying to regulate the state's medical marijuana industry is calling on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to stop raids of medical marijuana operations, saying ...
Denver medical marijuana lab says it was raided by DEA, ordered to turn over customer recordsA lab that tests medical marijuana for dispensaries and patients said Thursday it was raided by federal drug agents and ordered to turn over patient records.Full Spectrum ...
Montana issues 1st industrial hemp-growing state license to Bozeman womanMontana this month issued its first license for an industrial hemp-growing operation to a woman who said she wants to develop a domestic market for the plant despite federal law barring its cultivation.Laura ...
Federal government won't prosecute medical marijuana users if they comply with state lawPot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers should not be targeted for federal prosecution in states that allow medical marijuana, prosecutors were told Monday in a new policy memo issued by ...
Federal government won't prosecute medical marijuana users if they comply with state lawFederal drug agents won't pursue pot-smoking patients or their sanctioned suppliers in states that allow medical marijuana, under new legal guidelines to be issued Monday by the Obama administration.Two Justice ...
Marijuana advocates are gathering signatures to get as many as three pot-legalization measures on the ballot in 2010 in California, setting up what could be a groundbreaking clash with the federal government over U.S. drug policy.At least one poll shows voters would ...
Attorney General Holder announces hands-off approach to medical marijuana After California in 1996 became the first state to permit individuals to purchase marijuana for medicinal purposes as long as they have a doctors prescription, Nevada and 11 other states followed with similar ...
Obama may end raids on California medical marijuana dispensaries as policy undergoes reviewThe White House won't say it explicitly. "Anyone possessing, distributing or cultivating marijuana for any reason is in violation of federal law," Sarah Pullen, a DEA spokeswoman in Los Angeles, ...
