Federal Judge Considers Declaring Marijuana ‘Schedule I’ Status Unconstitutional

Schedule I classification mandates that the substance have “no currently accepted medical use,” as well as “a lack of accepted safety… under medical supervision.”

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Jake Dimmock, of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, works with flowering plants in a grow room.  Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP A federal judge in Sacramento, California just heard closing arguments in a case that challenges the constitutionality of the federal government’s Schedule I classification for

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Police Raid LEGAL Marijuana Store Of Former Pro-Pot News Anchor Who Quit Over Media Propaganda

“By opening back up bright and early, less than 24 hours after the local police department’s failed scare tactic, we, at the Alaska Cannabis Club, have made it clear that the will of the people is stronger than any force they have — and we aren’t going anywhere.”

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Former Alaska KTVA anchor Charlo Greene. The video of former Alaska KTVA anchor Charlo Greene made headlines last year after she quit on the air. She said she had grown increasingly frustrated with the media’s anti-cannabis propaganda and had decided to focus on her pro-marijuana campaign for the Alaska Cannabis Club where she now

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DC Legalizes Pot In Capital, Despite Threats From Congress

The District becomes the first place east of the Mississippi River where recreational pot is legal. Alaska also legalized pot this week, joining Colorado and Washington state.

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FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2014 file photo, posters encouraging people to vote yes on DC Ballot Initiative 71 to legalize small amounts of marijuana for personal use are readied in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

WASHINGTON  — The District of Columbia defied threats from Congress and moved forward Thursday with legalizing possession of marijuana after a voter-approved initiative. Despite last-minute maneuvers by Republican leaders in Congress and threats that city leaders could face prison time, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the city was implementing

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Alaska Becomes 3rd State To Legalize Marijuana

As of Tuesday, adult Alaskans can not only keep and use pot, they can transport, grow it and give it away. A second phase, creating a regulated and taxed marijuana market, won’t start until 2016 at the earliest.

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Peter Lomonaco, co-founder of the Alaska Cannabis Club, and CEO Charlo Greene share a joint at their medical marijuana dispensary in Anchorage, Alaska. Alaska is the third state in the nation to legalize marijuana. JUNEAU, Alaska  — Smoking, growing and possessing marijuana becomes legal in America's wildest state Tuesday, thanks to a voter

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American Indian Tribes To Discuss Legal Marijuana At Conference

There’s been a lot of discussion among tribes since the Justice Department announced in December that it would allow them to grow and sell marijuana.

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SEATTLE  — American Indian tribes wrestling with whether to legalize marijuana have scheduled a national conference on the topic next month in Washington state. Organizer Robert Odawi Porter, a tribal law expert and former president of Seneca Nation in New York, says there's been a lot of discussion among tribes since the Justice Department

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Colorado Sells $34 Million Of Cannabis: $3.4 Million Goes To Schools, Crime Down 15%

Colorado is expected to generate over $30 million in taxes from legal cannabis sales next year alone.

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Different strains of pot are displayed for sale at Medicine Man marijuana dispensary in Denver, Friday Dec. 27, 2013.  (AP/Brennan Linsley) In 2012, Colorado and Washington state legalized the recreational use of marijuana, much to the dismay of anti-pot advocates. They frequently alleged that it would make it easier for children to acquire,

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