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A Michigan cannabis grower won nearly $31.8 million after a jury found its buyer breached a state-legal marijuana supply agreement. Then the Sixth Circuit erased the judgment, ruling that federal courts cannot enforce a contract requiring conduct federal law still treats as illegal.
A federal judge allowed part of Hesham Alkhulaqi’s lawsuit against Madison County to continue after officers allegedly let his hemp inventory pass one traffic stop, then seized it four days later. The case challenges whether police training, drug-detection dogs and roadside field tests can reliably distinguish federally legal hemp from illegal marijuana.
Houston says low-level marijuana is not a police priority, but HPD records reportedly show misdemeanor marijuana arrests jumping from 29 to 405 in the same eight-month period. As voters prepare to decide the Houston Freedom Act on November 3, the city owes the public more than a slogan about priorities.
Filed Under: Drug War, Built for Television Seven deputies entered a Kansas family’s home and searched it for more than two hours. What sent them there was stranger than anything they found. It was a chilly April morning in Leawood, Kansas, an affluent suburb of Kansas City, when seven Johnson County sheriff’s deputies converged on... Continue Reading →
Massachusetts Question 8 would close adult-use cannabis stores, cut the penalty-free possession limit back to one ounce, preserve medical cannabis, and leave consumer demand behind. Pot Culture Magazine examines the legal trap, the $1.65 billion adult-use market, polling, tax consequences, campaign money, and the question repeal supporters still have to answer.
Pot Culture Magazine launches YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP, a new weekly series built from completely true cannabis stories too absurd to invent. The debut follows Irvin Rosenfeld, the federal patient who received a wax-sealed tin containing 300 government joints while Washington continued insisting marijuana had no accepted medical use.