Melina Delkic

These Proposed Laws Could Protect Legal Pot in 2018

These Proposed Laws Could Protect Legal Pot in 2018

It could be a big year—or a tumultuous one—for the marijuana movement. Right on the heels of California's historic legalization in early January, Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave federal ...

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Ben Carson Slams War on Drugs

Ben Carson Slams War on Drugs

Ben Carson slammed the war on drugs last week, saying it "disproportionately affected minority communities" in a break with other Donald Trump administration officials' stances. ... to drugs. When Sessions was a senator in Alabama, he supported the death penalty for drug trafficking, including for marijuana dealers. He has asked Congress to give him the power to prosecute even medical ...

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How Jeff Sessions Plans to End Medical Marijuana Before the Year is Over

Tears streamed down Claudia Jendron's face this year as her doctor patted her hand and told her, after eight years of failed pain treatments for her spinal fusion-gone-wrong, "This is going to work, Claudia."

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Former GOP Attorney General Calls Sessions' War on Weed a Waste of Time

Sessions's War on Pot Called a Waste of Time

Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s apparent plans to prosecute medical marijuana distributors in states that have legalized it are a waste of time, according to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ...

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St. Louis Cop Who Gunned Down Unarmed Black Man After Vowing to Kill Him Found Not Guilty

Police Officer Not Guilty in St. Louis Shooting Death

Update | A St. Louis judge on Friday ruled that police officer Jason Stockley was not guilty in the shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith. "It is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the State has failed in its burden of proof and the Court finds that defendant is not guilty of both charges in this case,…

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