The case was an anomaly in the legal state.
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Federal prosecutors agreed to drop charges against Devontre Thomas, a 19-year who faced prosecution for being caught with a very small amount of weed at a federally run boarding school for Native Americans in Oregon.
A Massachusetts court ruled that smoking MED violated a man’s probation.
Two men face criminal charges connected with the failed attempt to open a cannabis resort on a reservation in South Dakota.
Following a robbery at a Portland dispensary, police said Oregon pot shops are not attracting a disproportionate amount of crime .
The DEA’s criteria for whether a home contains a grow operation are very broad.
The New York Times reports on Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s unapologetically brutal war on drugs.
In Connecticut, schoolchildren will used seized grow lights to produce food.
The Kind investigates the judging of High Times Cannabis Cups, and speaks to Max Montrose, a connoisseur and critic of the high stakes process.
Vice learns about life as a “ trim bitch” on an illegal weed farm. The money is good, but conditions aren’t and sexual harassment is a problem.
Rapper Snoop Dogg is the executive producer of the new MTV weed comedy “Mary + Jane.”
Recently retired NFL player Eugene Monroe has a new column at The Cannabist.
Frankie Schnarrs, owner of Frankie’s Sports Pub in Olympia, Wash. said he’ll continue to allow patrons to use cannabis despite a recent fine and suspended liquor license, which he’s also ignoring. “I want them to take my license from me. They can go to Hell,” he told a reporter. “Get out of here. Get off my property.”
The Guardian hangs out with three elderly British women in Amsterdam, while they try pot for the first time. They enjoyed themselves at a playground, swinging on the swings.
Artist Tony Greenhand is well paid to roll joints that resemble guns, animals and other elaborate shapes.
Leafly looks back at jazz great Louis Armstrong’s long fondness for cannabis, which he called “the gage.”
Butane extraction has reached the U.K.