Sentences with phrase «marijuana crimes»

David Debolt, reporting for East Bay Times says, «Oakland ramped up its counterattack to the U.S. war on drugs, expanding its one - of - a-kind program to help people jailed for marijuana crimes enter the booming cannabis industry.»

OAKLAND — Oakland ramped up its counterattack to the U.S. war on drugs, expanding its one - of - a-kind program to help people jailed for marijuana crimes enter the booming cannabis industry.

Prosecutors there have always focused on marijuana crimes that «create the greatest safety threats» and will continue to be guided by that, he said.

With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

Prop 64 facilitates resentencing and expungement of records for perhaps hundreds of thousands convicted of nonviolatent marijuana crimes, improving their chance of finding jobs and purchasing guns.

«In recent weeks, the Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions promised to crack down on federal marijuana crimes,» his office wrote.

Nearly half of the people polled say they also support making the sale and possession of synthetic marijuana a crime in New York state.

In 2014, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson announced he would no longer prosecute low - level marijuana crimes.

There is also a federal appropriations bill which prohibits expenditure of federal funds to prosecute marijuana crimes which are legal under state law, although these bills only last a year at a time.

For decades Oakland police arrested people for marijuana crimes.

While federal law still makes the possession, production and sale of marijuana a crime, Holder's announcement means the Justice Department won't file lawsuits against state laws in Colorado and Washington that allow people to possess marijuana for personal use.

And the Manhattan and Brooklyn district attorneys said they would significantly limit prosecutions for marijuana crimes.

A group advocating decriminalization of pot in New York supports Nixon's contention that there's a stark disparity in the number of whites busted for marijuana crimes, compared to minorities.