Articles Posted in Orange County marijuana arrest

One of the benefits of expanding marijuana legalization across the country is that it has afforded an opportunity to correct the disparity in marijuana arrests along race and socio-economic lines. These disparities have negatively impacted black people, Hispanics, and other oppressed groups. The efforts, however, are not producing immediately successful results. A report from New…

The U.S. Supreme Court has just handed down two rulings that may have widened the ability of law enforcement to conduct illegal searches – something our Los Angeles marijuana arrest lawyers find deeply troubling. In one case, there was an expansion of the exception to a long-standing rule that unlawfully-gathered evidence had to be discarded.…

A Colorado woman whose son was injured when he jumped out of a window after consuming a marijuana-laced brownie his mother had procured for his friend will serve 30 days in jail. That’s according to the latest from The Coloradoan, which also noted the district court judge tacked on two years of probation as well.…