California Is Pondering a New Kind of Bank
A marijuana consultant helps a customer at a San Diego dispensary on January 1, the day pot became legal in California.Brian Cahn via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. States can legalize marijuana all they want, but it’s still a federally prohibited Schedule I drug. This presents legal marijuana dealers…
The Trump Administration Just Dealt a Major Blow to Clean Water Protections
Mitchell Resnick/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt formally suspended the Obama-era Clean Water Rule for two years, while the Trump administration works to repeal and replace the rule with their own, industry-friendly version. Also known as Waters of the United States (WOTUS), the rule…
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…
Ben Carson Keeps It All In the Family
Lance Cheung/Planet Pix via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Washington Post has a story today about a “listening tour” that Ben Carson set up in Baltimore a few months ago. It seems odd that Carson felt he needed to learn more about Baltimore, considering that he worked there…
FEMA Now Claims It Never Planned to Abandon Puerto Rico
Eliud Echevarria/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. FEMA is not stopping food and water distribution in Puerto Rico, according to an agency spokesperson in San Juan, despite earlier reports that the agency would “officially shut off” such efforts on January 31 and give remaining supplies to…
The White House and GOP Keep Changing Their Story on the Nunes Memo
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes at a March 22, 2017 news conference. Clark/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press)Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Republicans and the White House can’t seem to get their story straight on the controversial but still secret “Nunes memo,” which is said…