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...federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is estimated to have spent more than $10 million from 2005 to 2007 on raids on California dispensaries alone. (Twelve other states have legalized medical marijuana.) Legal costs are almost impossible to calculate in the Golden State. "I suspect it's well above $10 million, and that doesn't even take into account the fee for the time it's taking me to defend these cases. The government doesn't have to pay for that, but it's certainly an expense," says Joe Elford, ASA staff attorney. "It's the beginning of the end, hopefully...
However, though enforcement on the state and federal level may now be virtually the same in the affected states, a large legal gray area remains. "They've only begun to scratch the surface on this," says Dale Gieringer, California coordinator for NORML, a group lobbying to legalize marijuana. "They're going to have to change the whole treatment of marijuana under federal law because you can't just have a law lying around and say, 'Well, we're just not going to enforce it in this case,' and leave it like that. If they don't change the law, there...
...business license for his dispensary, a nursery license for the marijuana plants he cultivated and the blessing of city officials, including the mayor - was charged with violating both state and federal laws. Lynch's defense team was not allowed to inform the jury that medical marijuana was legal in the state or that Lynch was compliant with state law. (See if pot is good...
...Palin, Gov. Sarah • continuing complaints about ethics of lead to incurring of more than $500,000 in legal bills by • inability of to find someone on the McCain campaign worthy of sharing a prayer with...
...rupture came after French legal investigators indicted nine members of Rwanda's government - and implicated President Paul Kagame - for alleged complicity in the political assassinations that proceeded the Hutu genocide of Rwandan Tutsis. The indictments also charge those officials with acts aimed at amplifying the slaughter of their fellow Tutsis. Rwanda rejects those charges as seeking to cover what they describe as France's involvement in aiding, arming, and assisting the Hutu genocide effort, insisting Paris wants to cleanse its own guilt by casting Tutsi rebels who halted the massacre as the culprits behind it. Critics...