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Police have arrested a 67-year-old man from Chigona village in Chipinge for unlawful cultivation of cannabis as the law enforcement agency intensifies efforts to reduce drug abuse cases in the country. Following a tip off, detectives from the Criminal Investigations Department in Chipinge on...

The U.S. Department of Justice is issuing another reminder that marijuana businesses don't have a right to bankruptcy proceedings. "Marijuana continues to be regulated by Congress as a dangerous drug, and as the Supreme Court has recognized, the federal prohibition of marijuana takes...

Justice for pot smokers in America has become ridiculously uneven. They can light up legally in many states, while a second arrest for mere possession in Wisconsin remains a potential felony. Gretchen Schuldt got to wondering who is being snared here by this increasingly outdated law, and...

It's a June evening and a Racine police officer spies a suspiciously parked vehicle on Roosevelt Avenue. Approaching the car, he sees a 27-year-old man sitting in the driver's seat smoking what appears to be a joint. A few minutes later, after recovering 1.4 grams of marijuana, he issues the...

Thousands of criminal cases related to marijuana are being reviewed since the passage of Proposition 64, allowing those with felony convictions or charges to reduce their sentences to misdemeanors or have their offenses dismissed altogether. "I heard the Sacramento County Sheriff's...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions this month announced that the Justice Department will begin charging defendants in federal cases with the stiffest possible sentences, rescinding an initiative by former Attorney General Eric Holder. That policy had prosecutors take offenders' individual...

The U.S. Sentencing Commission has released its overview of 2016. Marijuana accounts for close to a quarter of federal drug cases, but this overview found that cannabis consumers typically have less serious criminal histories than users of other drugs. Reading through the report, we noted five...

On Saturday, Brazilians took to the streets in a nationwide Marijuana March to call for drug policy reform. The Supreme Court first gave the green light for a pro-legalization rally in 2011. Before, judges had prohibited the protest as an "incitement to criminal acts". For the first time...

Clark County - The Clark County District Attorney's Office is holding off on prosecuting simple marijuana possession cases, following the passage of Question 2. The new law, set to take effect on January 1, allows Nevadans 21 years and older to possess up to an ounce of marijuana for...

Legalizing up to an ounce of marijuana in Arizona could save taxpayers at least $1.3 million in jail booking costs alone, plus more than two man-years of police officers' time. New Times came up with the figures by analyzing jail bookings and costs in Maricopa County, plus arrests statistics...

A little over a month after the Illinois General Assembly decriminalized possession of small amounts of marijuana, Kane County State's Attorney Joe McMahon said Tuesday that the new law has had little effect so far on his prosecutors' workload. McMahon said his office is handling about 1,000...

Some Texas cities are taking direct action to dial back the drug wars and reduce their jail population. As lawmakers have wrestled in recent years with easing restrictions on marijuana use — an issue they likely will confront again when they convene in January — prosecutors in the state's...

Austin - Prosecutors in the most populated areas of Texas have in recent years dismissed a significantly larger number of marijuana offenses involving smaller amounts of the drug, according to a newspaper analysis. In the five most populous counties - Bexar, Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Travis...

Around 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 6, 2012, John Myers was returning home from visiting a friend when a Lakeway officer pulled him over along RM 620 for a broken tail light on his Ford pickup. After questioning, Myers, then 42, confessed to hiding marijuana under his seat and stashing a pipe in the...

The U.S. Department of Justice cannot spend money to prosecute federal marijuana cases if the defendants comply with state guidelines that permit the drug's sale for medical purposes, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The ruling, from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, comes as...

The U.S. Department of Justice cannot spend money to prosecute federal marijuana cases if the defendants comply with state guidelines that permit the drug's sale for medical purposes, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The ruling, from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, comes as...

For years now, the city has said it will dial back arrests and prosecution of low-level marijuana cases: in 2014, Mayor de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bratton said the city would start handing out more tickets and summonses in place of arrests, and the Brooklyn District Attorney's office said...