Denver Police Reddit AMA on Weed: Ten Highlights
Now that Colorado’s Amendment 64 effectively decriminalized marijuana for both medicinal and recreational use, Denver PD’s Lieutenant Matt Murray recently took to Reddit’s AMA forum to field questions...
View ArticleWashington Liquor Cop Demands Dispensary Access
Last Friday, one day after the federal government announced it would allow Colorado and Washington State to license legal pot stores, an enforcement officer from the Washington State Liquor Control...
View ArticleRoadside Pot Breathalyzer Coming Soon
A new study published in the journal Clinical Chemistry suggests roadside breath testing is effective at catching stoned drivers without ensnaring potheads who smoked the previous day, reports the...
View ArticleNM Cops Sued Over Traffic Stop Anal Probes
A 54-year-old man filed a federal lawsuit against police in New Mexico after a routine traffic stop turned into a fifteen-hour nightmare in which police, hyper-concerned that he might be hiding drugs...
View ArticleJustin Bieber’s Cookie Jars Full of Weed Found in Police Raid
Even though Justin Bieber sings sappy teen pop songs, it turns out he has the drug and weed habit of a Dirty South rappper. According to TMZ, police raided the singer’s Calabasas mansion and found two...
View ArticleWatch: Police Entrapping Disabled Teens in Pot Stings
Turns out that there’s nothing funny about 21 Jump Street at all. VICE recently reported on Jesse Snodgrass, a Temecula teenager with Asperger’s Syndrome who was bullied into buying drugs for an...
View ArticleTexas cop says pot is safer than alcohol
A retired police officer gets vocal against marijuana arrests in a new Texas television ad that aired on Tuesday. “I know of no instance in my entire career where someone was acting out under the...
View ArticleBusted: Police on film eating edibles during pot shop raid
Nevermind Jurassic World. Recorded footage of police officers behaving badly are now the action blockbusters of the summer. During a police raid on an unpermitted medical marijuana dispensary late last...
View ArticleVideo confirms Santa Ana cops eating marijuana edibles during raid
Video of a police raid on a Santa Ana dispensary went viral in June, with footage of cops feasting on medical marijuana edibles while generally behaving badly. Santa Ana police offers were filmed by...
View ArticleSnoop Dogg busted for pot in Sweden, calls arrest ‘Racial Profiling’
Snoop Dogg has vowed never to visit Sweden again after getting arrested over the weekend on suspicion of marijuana possession, reports the Guardian. The rapper and stoner icon posted a series of NSFW...
View ArticleWashington D.C. pot arrests at near zero after legalization
After one full year of legalizing cannabis in the nation’s capital, arrests for marijuana possession have dropped to single digits. Data provided by the Metropolitan Police Department shows that they...
View ArticleStudy: Cops now take more personal property than burglars
Civil asset forfeiture has become a widely abused practice among police departments, a recent study illustrates. According to stats from the Institute for Justice, the Treasury and Justice departments...
View ArticleSanta Ana cops charged with stealing pot edibles during dispensary raid
A group of Orange County police are now paying a costly price for the pot-laced edibles they ate while raiding a dispensary. Officers Brandon Matthew Sontag, 31, Nicole Lynn Quijas, 37, and Jorge...
View ArticleCalifornia marijuana legalization supported by law enforcement leaders
The majority of Californians are ready to legalize cannabis, but the state’s law enforcement officials remain divided. While many involved in law enforcement naturally oppose marijuana law reform, some...
View ArticleNYPD commissioner blames majority of city’s violence on marijuana
New York Police Chief Bill Bratton is blaming pot for the city’s problem with crime and violence. In a local radio show interview over the weekend, Bratton claimed that marijuana was responsible for...
View ArticleCalifornia marijuana enforcement 4 times more severe for black people, study...
Marijuana laws may have eased up throughout the years, but a new study shows that minorities are being punished more than ever for possessing cannabis. In racial data obtained from the cities of Los...
View ArticleCops can’t pull over cars licensed from legal marijuana states, court rules
Cops are not allowed to pull over out-of-state motorists from states with legal weed, a federal appeals court rules. In a 2-1 decision, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled that it’s...
View ArticleMarijuana breathalyzer field tested by California police
After recent successful field tests, breathalyzers for pot may soon be a new tool for law enforcement. A handheld device that determines the presence of THC from breath samples has completed successful...
View ArticleMarijuana arrests drop to lowest rate in 20 years
The amount of arrests for simple marijuana position has dropped to its lowest level in two decades, according to newly released federal data. An annual crime statistics report released on Monday by the...
View ArticlePolice make more arrests for pot than all violent crimes
Despite the push for further marijuana legalization throughout the U.S., a new study finds that arrests for possessing small amounts of pot outnumbered those made for all violent crimes combined in...
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