The relationship between marijuana crops and tribal land has always been contentious and legally complicated. In a recent case, California authorities initiated a raid to seize all marijuana grown on an Indian reservation in Northern California. According to reports, tribal authorities are joining with local law enforcement to stop illegal…
Californians who might be marijuana users should certainly keep themselves informed of marijuana laws throughout the state. Our marijuana lawyers in Los Angeles want to help keep the public informed of what the law is in California and the ways in which police officers are enforcing it. Sometimes marijuana regulation…
Possessing marijuana is legal in many states but what does this mean for law enforcement officers who smell an odor of marijuana in a state where the substance is legal to possess? Our marijuana defense lawyers are encouraged by the decriminalization and legality of marijuana in multiple states but there…
It’s been a year since voters in Washington state and Colorado approved the cultivation, distribution and possession of marijuana for adult residents of the state, regardless of whether they had a medical condition requiring it. In that time frame, both states have firmly established rules for the retail production and…
A Minnesota head shop owner was recently convicted on nearly all of the criminal charges against him in a federal case that was being closely watched by marijuana defense attorneys in California and around the country. The case had to do with the sale of synthetic forms of marijuana, often…
As Washington state and Colorado prepare to organize the launch of the country’s first-ever legalized recreational marijuana industry, words of caution must be heeded. Our California marijuana lawyers know that while a number of bordering states have also approved the drug for medicinal use, recreational users and growers will find…
As federal officials pledge to ease their vigorous prosecutions of those arrested for marijuana crimes, California’s legislators have come together to pass a bill that eases drug sentencing measures throughout the state. S.B. 649 provides prosecutors with greater flexibility to charge low-level, non-violent drug offenders with misdemeanors as opposed to…
Some two dozen civil liberties advocates are publicly demanding a series of congressional hearings regarding the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s broad use of National Security Agency data and intelligence to build domestic criminal drug cases against Americans. Reuters had been the first to report last month that the DEA routinely…
When Los Angeles voters approved the strict regulatory guidelines laid forth in Proposition D, it was inevitable that the majority of the city’s marijuana shops would be forced to close or face an intense legal battle. Now, that battle has begun, with seven medical marijuana dispensaries facing criminal charges for…
The 16-year-old preparatory school student was supposed to have been grounded, after his father discovered the boy had used his credit card to purchase a glass pipe. However, his father had a last-minute change-of-heart and allowed his son to drive his friends to a local beach in Florida. The next…