Current events
-Denver has approved a first-in-the-nation law allowing willing bars and restaurants to give patrons the option to use pot
-Colorado's attempt to create a bank to service its marijuana industry has suffered another setback and could be facing an impossible legal dilemma.
-College kids smoked marijuana more regularly in 2014 than cigarettes, a survey published Tuesday by researchers at the University of -Michigan found.
-A crowd of hundreds demanded that New York state legalize marijuana, as three other states have already done, during a rally at Union Square Saturday.
-Recreational pot — set to go legal in Washington, D.C. on Thursday — is less dangerous than both alcohol and tobacco, scientists assert.
-Nebraska and Oklahoma on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to declare Colorado's legalization of marijuana unconstitutional.
-A woman in Texas claims she has been cast out of her church because she uses medicinal marijuana.
-The bill would make it harder for people to use welfare payments to buy pot in states where the drug is legal. It has little chance of becoming law.
-Jacob Lavoro, 19, is accused of selling brownies for $25 and is facing felony charges that carry penalties ranging from five years to life in prison.
-As states continue to relax marijuana laws, Congress on Thursday turned its attention to the tricky question of how to handle “drug driving.”
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