Why Are There So Many Marijuana Arrests in New York City?

How can it be that after the state of New York decriminalized possession of personal use quantities of marijuana, New York City police still manage to rack up tens of thousands of marijuana arrests every year -- including 33,000 arrests just in.

Defendant was convicted by a jury in the Northern District of Illinois for defrauding LaSalle Bank and sentenced to 96 months in prison, ordered to forfeit $16,241,202 in money that he obtained from the fraud, and ordered to pay restitution in the.

The LA Times has a long article today that must surely warm the heart of the politicians and law enforcement officials who are pushing to dismantle Prop. 36. Prop. 36, of course, is the voter-approved California initiative that allows first- and second-time.

The interpretation of fairly arcane drug jargon could provide a sufficient basis to determine the quantity of drugs an individual was conspiring to distribute, a Ninth Circuit panel held Wednesday in United States v. Rosales , No. 05-30260. The drug traffickers in this.

Why would African American defendants being prosecuted for in federal court on charges that could carry the death penalty adopt a bizarre defense developed by white supremacists, one that the trial judge himself  describes as legal "suicide"? The full story of the.

Back at the end of 2006 I posted an item about the need to focus on "winnable" areas of drug law and policy and to push actively for change in those areas. In response, both in the comments to the post and.

The Associated Press notes that Measure B was passed by voters in Medocino County yesterday, repealing a measure that set fairly liberal quantity limits on the amount of marijuana a medical marijuana patient can grow under state law. The reporter includes no.

Over at the California Policy Report, Frank Russo notes a tension between California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger'sstated position on "the will of the voters" as expressed through initiatives and his approach to Prop. 36, the California initiative that allows first- and second-time nonviolent.

As reported by Chris Herring over at the Wall Street Journal Law Blog, the trial of former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi is scheduled to commence next Monday. And now the government has obtained Tannin’s e-mails from his private Google.

  The jumping off point is a long article published in the LA Times today (4/1/07) on Prop. 36, the 2000 California initiative that allows first- and second-time nonviolent drug offenders to be  sentenced to drug treatment rather than incarceration. The article.