San Francisco Plans to Walk Back Thousands of Marijuana Convictions
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon.Eric Risberg/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Now that recreational marijuana is officially legal in California, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office has announced that it will seek dismissals for more than 3,000 misdemeanor marijuana convictions dating as far back as 1975. The move is a result of California’s…
Vermont Just Became the First State To Legalize Pot Through Its Legislature
A man rolls a joint.Mark Allen Johnson/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The state of Vermont legalized the recreational use of marijuana on Monday, making it the ninth state to do so, and the first since Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced changes to the Department of Justice’s approach to prosecuting marijuana…
California’s Cannabis Crowd Isn’t Afraid of the Big Bad Attorney General
A legal pot shot in Santa Cruz, CA.Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Lots of people, obviously, are unhappy with Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ reversal of Obama-era guidelines de-prioritizing federal enforcement of marijuana laws in states that have legalized pot for recreational or medicinal use. Thursday’s announcement drew…
Pot Legalization Is Transforming California’s Criminal Justice Landscape. Here’s How.
An arrest for marijuana DUI in 2016—California’s laws on that front haven’t changed.Bill Alkofer/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You’ve probably already heard legal weed is coming to California in 2018. Actually, possession of an ounce or less and private recreational use both became legal in November 2016, when…
A Quick Guide to Legal Pot in California
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For Californians, legal cannabis is right around the corner. But we have questions. And as it turns out, many of you do, too. A couple weeks ago we wanted to know what questions you had about pot, and the responses were overwhelming.…