Jeff Sessions Is Out: What Does This Mean For The Marijuana Industry? Last week was high time for the cannabis industry. With lots of good news to celebrate about, it can easily be said that the highlight of it all was Trump asking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign. Even…
Trump Gives AG Jeff Sessions The Boot The 2018 midterm elections have given the cannabis community lots to be happy about, but this is easily one of the best news to come out of it. First, Pete Sessions, R, Texas, lost his seat in the midterm elections to a Democrat. …
Sessions To Open Up Federal Marijuana Testing Did US Attorney General Jeff Sessions just have a change of heart? This Wednesday, he just told a Senate panel that “there may well be some benefits from medical marijuana”, as well as he thinks that it’s “perfectly appropriate to study” pot. However,…
WASHINGTON — Marijuana has enjoyed some head winds lately, even as regulating it faces an uncertain future in the Trump administration. Over the past week, Trump promised not to go after marijuana suppliers and users who are obeying their state laws, former House speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced his formerly…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California, Oregon and other marijuana-friendly states are seeking a meeting with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in hopes of resolving the conflict between federal and state laws that has left the nation’s cannabis industry in legal limbo. Marijuana is illegal at the federal level, even as…
Published: Mar 16, 2018, 12:16 pm • Updated: Mar 16, 2018, 12:16 pm By The Associated Press FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski and a bipartisan group of senators are pushing legislation that would allow legal marijuana businesses to use banks to store profits. Murkowski and Democrat Sen.…
Doctors Afraid To Recommend Cannabis, Thanks To Sessions On January 4 of this year, Sessions made an announcement that he was going to allow federal prosecutors the liberty of going after cannabis businesses in states where MMJ laws are present. Not only did his announcement send tremors throughout the legal…
Published: Mar 10, 2018, 10:01 am • Updated: Mar 10, 2018, 10:06 am By Sadie Gurman, The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors won’t take on small-time marijuana cases, despite the Justice Department’s decision to lift an Obama-era policy that discouraged U.S. authorities from cracking down on the pot…
Published: Feb 16, 2018, 11:31 am • Updated: Feb 16, 2018, 11:31 am By Jill Richardson, Otherwords.org Recently Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave Americans suffering severe pain some advice: “People need to take some aspirin sometimes and tough it out a little.” As someone who has suffered chronic pain for…
Published: Feb 13, 2018, 5:12 pm • Updated: Feb 13, 2018, 5:19 pm By The Denver Post Editorial Board What an interesting battle Colorado’s junior senator — Republican Cory Gardner — has launched against fellow law-and-order conservative Jeff Sessions. For weeks now Gardner has blocked Senate confirmation of Justice Department…