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4 Dec 2017, 1:04 pm
As regular readers know, my status as both a lawyer and as a law professor training lawyer, I am always distinctly interesting in stories about the intersection of marijuana reforms and the legal profession. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 12:11 pm
Over the last few years, state legalization of marijuana has had just such a major effect, even though marijuana remains illegal under federal law. [read post]
4 Dec 2017, 6:07 am
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 4, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: Spies more free to use cellphone surveillance tech without warrant, under court ruling2 Toronto policemen who mocked woman with Down syndrome plead guilty to misconduct'Our collective shame': Trudeau delivers historic apology to LGBT CanadiansFederal marijuana legislation clears House of Commons, headed for the SenatePM Trudeau to name new Supreme Court judge to replace… [read post]
3 Dec 2017, 9:57 am
The final student presentation this year in my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar is looking at how communities of color are participating in the marijuana industry. [read post]
3 Dec 2017, 9:14 am
An important and enduring issue, and one being covered by a student presentation this week in my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar, concerns labor and employment law in the era of state marijuana reforms. [read post]
2 Dec 2017, 8:00 am
As my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar is approaching its final class, a final set of students are scheduled to deliver presentations on the marijuana-related topics of their choosing. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 12:24 pm
A student in my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar is looking closely at the law, policies and practices surrounding banking activities for the marijuana industry, and he has provided for class reading the following links in preparation for his presentation this coming week: American Bankers Association 2014 Synopsis of... [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 8:00 am
At a time when President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are rolling back federal civil rights efforts and undermining criminal justice reform — with Sessions’ actually suggesting he’ll ramp up the failed war on marijuana — New Jersey has the opportunity to lead the nation by being the first state to pass marijuana legalization through legislation.While a ballot initiative would embed legalization in the state constitution, it would do so… [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 1:42 pm
As mentioned in this prior post, one student in my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar is this week giving a presentation focused on scientific studies concerning driving under the influence of marijuana. [read post]
29 Nov 2017, 7:18 am
Marijuana arrests are disproportionately made against African Americans—blacks are 3.73 times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession even though self-reporting says the use of marijuana is roughly similar between whites and blacks. [read post]
28 Nov 2017, 5:16 pm
As my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar is hitting its homestretch, the last group of students are continuing to deliver great presentations on the marijuana-related topics of their choosing. [read post]
27 Nov 2017, 1:38 pm
As mentioned in a prior post, my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar is hitting its homestretch and the last group of students are delivering presentations on a marijuana-related topic of their choosing. [read post]
26 Nov 2017, 1:11 pm
As mentioned in a prior post, my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar is hitting its homestretch and the last group of students are delivering presentations on a marijuana-related topic of their choosing. [read post]
24 Nov 2017, 5:01 pm
After the long weekend, my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar turns to its homestretch and the last ground of students are delivering presentations on a marijuana-related topic of their choosing. [read post]
22 Nov 2017, 8:44 am
As detailed in this official release, titled "A cannabis economic account – The framework," the national agency Statistics Canada has just announce how it is "preparing Canada's statistical system to capture the associated economic and social implications of the prospective legalization of cannabis. [read post]
21 Nov 2017, 9:18 am
Stateline has this effective new piece on a topic that I have long thought should get even more attention as the marijuana reform movement continues to pick up steam. [read post]
19 Nov 2017, 12:14 pm
Regular readers know that many proponents of marijuana reform have been eager in recent years to talk up the possible benefits of marijuana reform as one useful response to the on-going opioid crisis. [read post]
17 Nov 2017, 11:42 am
The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act aims to do just that. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 6:48 am
Advocates of marijuana reform are often quick to assert that nobody dies from an overdose of marijuana. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 8:15 am
A student in my Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform seminar this week in his presentation is addressing what he calls "one narrow evidentiary aspect of a much broader area of study: the effect of legalization on how society and the law treat people with marijuana-related felonies who would not have... [read post]
