The Obama administration has allowed Colorado and Washington state to implement their recreational marijuana laws since being approved by voters in their respective states in 2012. The Justice Department outlined in 2013 guidelines that geared enforcement to eight specific areas. The memo requires federal prosecutors to focus their resources on preventing the growing of marijuana…
Chicago will soon be the largest city in America with a minimum wage of $13 an hour or more. The Chicago City Council today passed a minimum wage ordinance that will gradually raise the minimum wage from $8.25 to $13 in 2019. The city’s minimum wage will increase to $10 an hour on July 1….
A California public safety measure to reclassify low-level crimes, including drug possession, won a clear victory on Tuesday, as voters paved the way for thousands of non-violent offenders to be resentenced and potentially released from the state’s notoriously overcrowded prison system. Voting 58.5 to 41.5 percent to pass Proposition 47, California residents “spoke clearly” on…
A reporter with a local CBS affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska quit her job on live TV Sunday night, dropping an f bomb in her announcement during a segment titled “Voting for easier access”. Charlo Greene said during the segment that she was leaving the station to run a pro-marijuana organization known as the Alaska Cannabis…
