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Flawed report reflects drug warriors’ desperation to discredit Colorado’s...
A new report from the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA) gathers together all the horrible things that have happened in Colorado since the state began loosening its marijuana...
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Nebraska and Oklahoma’s odd attempt to force pot prohibition back on Colorado
Yesterday Nebraska and Oklahoma sued Colorado, arguing that marijuana legalization there is having spillover effects on neighboring states and should be reversed because it violates federal law. The...
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Denver DA’s prosecution of jury nullification pamphleteer runs afoul of First...
Last week Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey charged a local political activist, Mark Iannicelli, with seven counts of jury tampering, a felony punishable by one to three years in prison, for...
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Case dismissed: Judge tosses Denver jury tampering charges as unconstitutional
Last August, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey charged two local activists, Mark Iannicelli and Eric Brandt, with seven felonies each for passing out jury nullification pamphlets at the...
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Nebraska, Oklahoma show fair-weather federalism with Colorado pot lawsuit
On January 6, two days before Mexican authorities recaptured Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a.k.a. El Chapo, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt pointed to another drug lord, this one hiding in plain sight:...
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Despite federal approval, selling hemp and CBD remains legally risky
WASHINGTON DC–At the end of last year, Congress passed a farm bill that legalized hemp, defined as cannabis containing no more than 0.3 percent THC by weight, and its derivatives, including cannibidiol...
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Sullum: ‘Red Flag’ law erodes civil liberties based on future behavior
In April, Colorado became the 15th state to enact a “red flag” law that authorizes court orders forbidding gun possession by people deemed a threat to themselves or others. The new law, which has drawn...
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Colorado Supreme Court: Alert by pot-detecting dog can’t justify search,...
DENVER–Drug-sniffing dogs in states that have legalized marijuana should be worried about their job security in light of a decision that the Colorado Supreme Court issued on Monday. Confirming the 2017...
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Survey data show decline in adolescent marijuana use after legalization
WASHINGTON DC–Notwithstanding fears that legalizing marijuana for adults would lead to an increase in underage consumption, a new analysis of survey data finds that legalization is associated with a...
View ArticleFiscal analysis assumes 95% of gun confiscation orders to be granted under...
DENVER–The Colorado legislature’s official fiscal analysis of the state’s new “red flag” law, which took effect last week, projects that police and “family or household members” will use it to seek gun...
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