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Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates announced that the feds will cease using private prisons.

DOJ Medical Marijuana Raid Ban Affirmed as the Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals decided today that the Department of Justice may not spend taxpayer dollars to conduct prosecutions of patients and their providers in states that have legalized medical marijuana.

Oregon State Fair First to Judge Cannabis as people flocked to Oregon’s first-ever marijuana growers’ fair on Saturday where a competition for best pot plants was being held.

An Oregon Teen Faces Marijuana Possession charges over a single gram of marijuana and is facing federal drug charges and up to a year in prison.

Missouri Medical Marijuana On Ballot: 2,000 Signatures Short as per the attempt by New Approach Missouri to place a medical marijuana initiative on the ballot.

The 2016 Rio Summer Olympic games begin this week and US athlete Nicholas Delpopolo who was disqualified from the 2012 London Summer Olympics for marijuana use will finally get to compete. In Ohio, Scott’s Miracle-Gro, the company famous for its lawn and garden products, has made another big investment in the legal marijuana industry by paying $136 million to purchase Gavita, a Dutch grow-light company. Colombian farmers are beginning to plant their first legal cannabis crops since the government legalized medical use of marijuana. The New Jersey Supreme Court has upheld the right to privacy for a man whose aunt reported his closet marijuana grow to the police. Chief Wana Dubie’s dream of representing Missouri in the U.S. Senate has gone up in smoke. A woman has been caught in Mexico more than 25 years after she failed to appear in federal court in Texas to be sentenced on a drug charge.

New Jersey Medical Marijuana Option for PTSD Considered as Governor Chris Christie to Consider Bill That Provides a Medical Marijuana Option for PTSD Patients.

South Dakota Cannabis Resort Developers arrested as South Dakota's top prosecutor charged two consultants who worked with a Native American tribe on its plans to open the nation's first marijuana resort.

Northern Mariana Islands Marijuana Legalization Possible with chance to pass legalization in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory just southeast of Japan.

Illinois Marijuana Possession Decriminalized as Marijuana possession is now decriminalized in the state under a bill signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner today.

Australian Hemp For Consumption Being Considered as the Australian Government moves closer to approving the legalization of hemp seed as a food product.

The Democrats have become the first major political party in the United States to endorse a reasoned pathway for marijuana legalization in their party platform at their convention in Philadelphia.

Marijuana activists carried on Monday afternoon a 51-foot-long joint from Philadelphia’s City Hall to the Wells Fargo center, the home of the Democratic National Convention.

Bernie Sanders Supporters Demonstrate During Day 1 of DNC 2016 as several hundred Bernie Sanders supporters and other demonstrators marched down Philadelphia’s sweltering Broad Street on the opening day of the Democratic convention Monday, chanting Nominate Sanders or lose in November!and Hey, hey, ho, ho, the DNC has got to go!

Italy Marijuana Legalization Voted on as the Italian Parliament discussed a proposal for marijuana legalization. If passed, the bill on the table — similar to the proposal Colorado voters passed in 2012.

The Oregon State Police have reported to Portland’s FOX TV affiliate that there have been a 163 percent increase in stoned driving arrests in the first six months of marijuana legalization. Eugene Monroe, the NFL offensive tackle who was dropped by the Baltimore Ravens following his call for medical marijuana acceptance in the sport, has retired from football. A candidate for state assembly is calling for the legalization of marijuana in New York by noting that many of the citizens she visits are smoking it. Two leaders of a cannabis-focused religion were arrested by Rhode Island State Police for cultivation and possession of marijuana. An American judoka who was expelled from the 2012 Olympic Team for failing a marijuana drug test will be back competing in judo at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. A lawmaker in the lower house of Parliament has introduced a bill to legalize medical marijuana in Ireland.

A new poll shows that Massachusetts may be the least-likely of the five states voting to pass a marijuana legalization initiative this November. An Arizona judge has set August 12 as the date to hear a challenge by anti-marijuana campaigners to strike a legalization initiative from the November ballot. The Colorado State Medical Board has suspended the licenses of four doctors over allegations they routinely recommended massive plant count limits for medical marijuana grows. Former running back Ricky Williams says he went through "at least 500" drug tests during his 11-year NFL career. Tallahassee grower and dispensary Trulieve will be the first medical marijuana facility in the state of Florida to open its doors for the sale of CBD oil. Mystery surrounds the sudden departure of Executive Director Mike Elliott from the Marijuana Industry Group.

Arizona Marijuana Legalization initiative To Be Heard as a Judge is set to hear challenge of Arizona marijuana legalization initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana.

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws has endorsed the 2016 Arizona Cannabis Ballot initiative to legalize marijuana that appears poised to make the 2016 ballot.

Colorado Cannabis Post-Legalization Economy Booming as a new economic report shows that since marijuana legalization, Colorado’s economy is booming.