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Did the Colorado Supreme Court just throw the state’s marijuana-legalization regime into question? The chief justice seems to think so.

Colorado’s Supreme Court on Monday sidelined state police dogs trained to sniff for marijuana — the necessary consequence of marijuana no longer being entirely illegal, a slim majority of the court reasoned. But, writing an unusually fiery dissent, the court’s chief justice said his colleagues may have also opened the door to deeper questions about […]

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Anyone who works in marijuana — legal or not — can be denied U.S. citizenship, immigration authorities say

By Astrid Galvan, The Associated Press PHOENIX — Immigration authorities on Friday said that anyone with any involvement with marijuana, regardless of whether it’s legal in the state where they live, can be denied citizenship because the drug is still illegal under federal law. The announcement comes weeks after officials in Colorado, where recreational marijuana […]