Marijuana businesses brace for investment chill as U.S. changes policy
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cannabis businesses across the United States said they are bracing for an investment slowdown following the U.S. Justice Department’s Thursday directive that will allow the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized the drug.
Accused Colorado abortion clinic gunman can be forcibly medicated
DENVER (Reuters) – A man accused of fatally shooting three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015, who was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, can be forcibly medicated in an effort to restore him to competency, an appeals court ruled…
Trump administration drops Obama-era easing of marijuana prosecutions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday rescinded an Obama administration policy that had eased enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that legalized the drug, instead giving federal prosecutors wide latitude to pursue c…
U.S. FCC chairman cancels tech event appearance after threats: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has canceled a scheduled appearance next week at a large consumer electronics event in Las Vegas after receiving unspecified deaths threats, two sources briefed on the matt…
States with legal pot denounce federal marijuana crackdown
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawmakers in U.S. states that have legalized marijuana denounced a move by the Trump administration on Thursday to cancel a policy that kept federal prosecutors at bay from the fledgling cannabis industries and vowed to uphold thei…
Man charged with kidnapping two girls after their mother was killed
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A man suspected of abducting two girls from an Austin, Texas-area home, where their mother was found dead, has been arrested in Colorado and charged with kidnapping, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.
Blizzard wallops U.S. Northeast, knocks out power, snarls travel
BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – A powerful blizzard battered the Northeast on Thursday, knocking out power for tens of thousands of people and snarling travel amid a long cold snap that has gripped much of the United States for more than a week and killed …
States with legal pot denounce Sessions’ marijuana crackdown
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawmakers in U.S. states that have legalized marijuana criticized the Trump administration on Thursday for cancelling a policy that had kept federal prosecutors at bay, saying the move amounted to meddling in states’ affairs and ig…
Court voids Idaho ban on secret farm videos, revives some curbs on probes
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Thursday declared unconstitutional Idaho’s bans on shooting secret videos and lying to enter factory farms to expose animal abuse, but revived other parts of the state’s law to curb undercover probes into the prac…
Puerto Rico sets 90-day target for review of hurricane deaths
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facing mounting criticism that his administration understated the death toll from September’s Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello on Thursday established a 90-day process to review the causes of thousands of recent deaths.
