"Members of the Oakland City Council have voted to exemptcannabis from a proposed ordinance barring smoking in multi-unit residential dwellings.
“Unlike tobacco, cannabis is illegal to consume in any public place in California. As a result, a ban on residential smoking would effectively leave the many Oaklanders who don’t have their own houses with no place to legally inhale cannabis, even for medical purposes,” California NORML opined."
"Agents affiliated with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) have been instructed to stop searching travelers at airports or other “mass transportation facilities” without a warrant, following a directive issued by Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General.
The directive, issued earlier this month, followed an investigation by the IG’s office. That investigation determined that DEA personnel lacked adequate training and often failed to properly document their search-related activities."
"A Nebraska district court judge has rejected a legal challenge that sought to invalidate a pair of citizen-initiated measures regulating the possession, use, and production of medical cannabis.
Voters on Election Day overwhelmingly approved both measures, despite the ongoing litigation. Seventy-one percent of voters decided in favor of Measure 437, which permits qualified patients to possess and use cannabis. Sixty-seven percent of voters backed Measure 438, which establishes a regulated system for the production and distribution of medical cannabis.
Opponents of the initiative campaign argued that advocates had fraudulently gathered some of the signatures necessary to qualify the measures for the ballot."
"Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed litigation that seeks to halt the city of Dallas from adopting a voter-approved measure prohibiting police from making low-levelmarijuana possession arrests.
On election day, voters in Dallas (population 1.3 million) and two other cities (Bastrop and Lockhart) decided in favor of municipal ballot initiatives limiting the ability of local law enforcement to make misdemeanor marijuana possession arrests. Those cities join Austin, Killeen, and several other Texas municipalities that have previously passed similar measures. The Attorney General has also filed suit against several of those cities, but his office has thus far been unsuccessful in halting their implementation.
“Cities cannot pick and choose which State laws they follow,” AG Paxton said. “The City of Dallas has no authority to override Texas drug laws or prohibit the police from enforcing them. This is a backdoor attempt to violate the Texas Constitution, and any city that tries to constrain police in this fashion will be met swiftly with a lawsuit by my office.”
"Justices on the state Supreme Court have determined that police can search a motor vehicle without a warrant based solely on the “odor of raw cannabis” emanating from the car.
The majority’s decision hinged on statutory language in the state’s Vehicle Code prohibiting the possession of cannabis in a motor vehicle unless it is in a “sealed, odor-proof, child-resistant cannabis container.” Lawmakers amended the Code when it established regulations legalizing the adult-use marijuana market in 2019. Violators of the law may face civil or criminal penalties."
"Chronic pain patients enrolled in Utah’s medical cannabis access program significantly reduce their opioid intake, according to an analysis provided to the state’s Medical Cannabis Advisory Board.
Researchers assessed prescription opioid use trends in 157 patients enrolled in the program."
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