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A Talk With Bruce Mirken of the Marijuana Policy Project

Bruce Mirken is the communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, the largest cannabis policy reform organization in the United States.

Q: When the Justice Department told federal prosecutors not to prosecute medical marijuana distributors as long as they followed state law, you called it “the most significant change in federal policy on medical marijuana in at least three decades.” Now that the dust has settled a bit, does the reality of what’s happening in California match your expectations? Continue Reading

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A Talk With Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko

When voters approved Proposition 215 in 1996, California became one of two states to decriminalize marijuana on a medical basis. (Arizona voters passed the similar Proposition 200 on the same day.) Proponents of medical cannabis didn’t have long to rejoice,… Continue Reading