Voters in Washington state are set to decide on a proposal that would legalize marijuana possession for non-medical use and authorize its sale in state-run stores. Initiative 502, which supporters call “a new approach to marijuana,” qualified for November’s statewide ballot Friday after a months-long petition drive, Reuters reports.

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In response to last year’s SAT cheating scandal, state Senator Kenneth LaValle has proposed a bill that would make cheating on the SAT a felony in New York. If passed, the SAT cheating bill would formally criminalize the “facilitation of education testing fraud” and “scheming to defraud educational testing.” Such……

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If you’ve been making anti-American jokes on Twitter, it’s time to stop. The Department of Homeland Security may be after you.

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Lest there be any question, the U.S. Constitution’s supremacy clause still applies to medical marijuana. A federal judge has ruled that federal laws trump Montana’s state laws about medical pot, and patient advocates aren’t pleased.

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GW Pharmaceuticals, a British company, has asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve a pot mouth spray — the world’s first marijuana-based prescription drug. The spray, called Sativex, contains THC and cannabinoids

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Will Washington legalize marijuana? Supporters sure hope so. A group called New Approach Washington has turned in more than 340,000 signatures to the state legislature in support of Initiative 502

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WA Voters May Soon Legalize Recreational Pot

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Questions of excessive force are being raised in the police-related death of 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez, Jr. Police were called to Cummings Middle School in Brownsville, Tex.

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Pellet Gun Gets TX Boy, 15, Shot Dead by Cops

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Can the police decide not to arrest someone who has committed a crime? Yes, and approximately 250 California teens are probably very happy that such police discretion exists. The group of high school students was pulled over while recently en route to Utah for a ski weekend

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A witness to last month’s gruesome New York City elevator accident is planning to sue for trauma. Kathleen Mullahy, 36, of Queens, was inside an elevator in a midtown Manhattan office building Dec. 14 when the elevator malfunctioned

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Rapper Freddie Gibbs has gone public with a personal habit and a personalized note from a federal baggage inspector. Gibbs claims a TSA agent found pot in his checked luggage and scribbled two words on an inspection notice: “C’mon son.” Gibbs, also known as Gangsta Gibbs, got such a chuckle…… Continue reading this article, and get more legal news and information, at FindLaw.com

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TSA’s Pot Inspection Notice to Rapper Freddie Gibbs: ‘C’mon Son’

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