BY MARY CLARE JALONICK ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation on Thursday to give judges more discretion in sentencing
BY ALAN FRAM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee took an election-year swipe Wednesday at the nation's growing drug addiction problem, approving
BY BECKY BOHRER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska will soon become the first state in the nation to allow customers to smoke pot
BY MICHAEL CASEY ASSOCIATED PRESS CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The growing number of patients who claim marijuana helped them drop their painkiller habit has intrigued
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Marijuana growing operations were discovered at some of the crime scenes where officials said eight family members were killed in a
BY TOM BELL ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine could become the first state to add addiction to opioid prescriptions and illegal narcotics like
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a 76-year-old Alabama man who was sentenced to life in prison without parole
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS SPOKANE, Wash. – The amount of money spent on legal marijuana sales in Spokane County last year was larger than the retail
BY KRISTEN WYATT ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER (AP) — A new Colorado law allowing medical marijuana use at public schools is getting a second look. That's
LONDON (AP) — Howard Marks, a convicted drug smuggler who reinvented himself as an author, raconteur and drug-reform campaigner after publishing best-selling autobiography "Mr. Nice,"
BY CATHY BUSSEWITZ ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU (AP) — A federal court has ruled that a church for Native Americans in Hawaii should not be excused
SEATTLE (AP) — A report about a convicted murderer being granted a license to open a marijuana shop in Washington has prompted a double-take by
BY MARY CLARE JALONICK ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators unveiled legislation on Thursday to give judges more discretion in sentencing offenders, a renewed push to overhaul the nation's criminal justice system after objections from some conservatives and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Legislation approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last November would allow some nonviolent
BY ALAN FRAM ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee took an election-year swipe Wednesday at the nation's growing drug addiction problem, approving federal grants that would bolster state and local efforts against the abuse of opioid painkillers. The bipartisan measure sailed through the Judiciary panel by voice vote. Its easy approval contrasted with recent clashes between the
BY BECKY BOHRER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska will soon become the first state in the nation to allow customers to smoke pot and consume marijuana edibles at authorized retail stores. But rules governing this are still being hammered out, with state regulators set to consider regulations Wednesday in Anchorage. But don't get too excited yet, especially if
BY MICHAEL CASEY ASSOCIATED PRESS CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The growing number of patients who claim marijuana helped them drop their painkiller habit has intrigued lawmakers and emboldened advocates, who are pushing for cannabis as a treatment for the abuse of opioids and illegal narcotics like heroin, as well as an alternative to painkillers. It's a tempting sell in New
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Marijuana growing operations were discovered at some of the crime scenes where officials said eight family members were killed in a "pre-planned execution," raising more questions as authorities scrambled to find a suspect or suspects in the slayings in a rural southern Ohio community. The killings at four homes near the small community of Piketon on
BY TOM BELL ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine could become the first state to add addiction to opioid prescriptions and illegal narcotics like heroin to its list of conditions that qualify for medical marijuana. Nearly 30 medical marijuana caregivers and patients told state regulators at a public hearing on Tuesday that marijuana eases the symptoms of opioid withdrawal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a 76-year-old Alabama man who was sentenced to life in prison without parole for possessing less than three pounds of marijuana that he said he grew for personal use. Lawyers for Lee Carroll Brooker said the stiff sentence under the state's habitual offender law violates the Constitution's ban
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS SPOKANE, Wash. – The amount of money spent on legal marijuana sales in Spokane County last year was larger than the retail sales of wine, bread or milk. That's according to sales numbers from the Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board and a survey of household expenses conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. Monthly sales of pot topped
BY KRISTEN WYATT ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER (AP) — A new Colorado law allowing medical marijuana use at public schools is getting a second look. That's because no school districts are allowing it, even though the law says they can. A bill up for its first vote in a state House committee Monday would make Colorado the second state to require
LONDON (AP) — Howard Marks, a convicted drug smuggler who reinvented himself as an author, raconteur and drug-reform campaigner after publishing best-selling autobiography "Mr. Nice," has died of cancer at age 70. A statement on Marks' website said he died in his sleep on Sunday "surrounded by his four loving children." Born in a coal-mining village in Wales in 1945,
BY CATHY BUSSEWITZ ASSOCIATED PRESS HONOLULU (AP) — A federal court has ruled that a church for Native Americans in Hawaii should not be excused from federal marijuana laws despite the group's claim that ingesting cannabis is part of their sacred sacrament. The Native American Church of Hawaii had asked for relief from federal marijuana laws under the U.S. Religious
SEATTLE (AP) — A report about a convicted murderer being granted a license to open a marijuana shop in Washington has prompted a double-take by state officials. The Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board selected Green Grotto LLC to open a marijuana store in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah. As first reported by The Issaquah Press, the company is run by
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