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President Jimmy Carter's solemn state funeral in Washington, D.C.’s National Cathedral Thursday brought together five living U.S. presidents, including President-elect Donald Trump, who was seated next to Barack Obama, with whom he seemed to be having a lively conversation.   Carter was...

President Joe Biden announced the largest single-day act of clemency by a U.S. president, commuting the sentences of nearly 1,500 individuals and pardoning 39 others convicted of nonviolent offenses. The measure, announced on Thursday, comes two weeks after after Biden pardoned his son, Hunter...

Crude oil prices dropped sharply late Monday afternoon after The Washington Post reported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Biden administration he is willing to strike military targets rather than oil or nuclear facilities in Iran.  The Details: Netanyahu told President Joe...

“Optimism is required if you're going to fight the War on Drugs for over half a century,” reflects Vince Sliwoski in a poignant piece on The Canna Law Blog about Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s impending retirement. As Blumenauer prepares to step down next month, his legacy as one...

It’s been two years since Joe Biden's announcement to pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession. Although almost everyone has likely noticed that not a single person among the approximately 3,000 people incarcerated for federal cannabis offenses has been released. To...

In a re-run of a bill that didn’t make it through Congress two years ago, Congressman Troy A. Carter, Sr. (D-LA) and Congressman Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) have re-introduced the bipartisan Marijuana Misdemeanor Expungement Act. “No one should be in jail just for using or possessing...

An active cannabis prohibitionist group represented by the law firm founded by Donald Trump‘s Attorney General Bill Barr is urging the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to extend the public comment period for President Joe Biden's recent cannabis rescheduling proposal. Smart Approaches to...

President Joe Biden recently acknowledged that his marijuana pardons did not expunge records, despite previous claims. At a campaign event last month in Philadelphia with VP Kamala Harris, Biden reiterated his commitment to ensuring that no one should be in jail merely for using or possessing...

President Joe Biden‘s May 16 announcement to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule III drug has been framed as a racial justice policy aimed at reversing long-standing inequities. Biden said it himself about cannabis arrests: “Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and...

Akanda Corp. (NASDAQ:AKAN) shares are trading higher Friday amid increased volaility in marijuana stocks after President Biden announced the Department of Justice is taking the next step towards the reclassification of marijuana from a Schedule I substance to a Schedule III.  The Details: President...

Shares of marijuana growers and cannabis-related companies are trading higher Thursday after President Biden announced that the Department of Justice has moved to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I substance to a Schedule III.  The Details: The White House announcement comes several weeks after...

On the same day the DEA announced its decision to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) called upon President Joe Biden to extend clemency and compassionate release to individuals with federal...

President Joe Biden pardoned 11 people convicted of non-violent drug charges and commuted the sentences of five others. He said the move was part of his commitment to addressing racial disparities as many of them received disproportionately longer sentences than they would have under current law...

In the hallowed chambers of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, a testy exchange took place between Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. The bone of contention was the proposed rescheduling of marijuana under federal law. Cornyn grilled...

Vice President Kamala Harris plans to meet rapper Fat Joe and several people pardoned by the Biden administration for marijuana-related convictions for a White House public discussion about criminal justice reform, reported Reuters. A five-time Grammy nominee, Fat Joe is a proponent of criminal...