The massive spending plan signed by President Donald Trump Friday includes language barring the Department of Justice from using federal funds to prosecute medical marijuana programs in states where they are legal, defying Attorney General Jeff Sessions.Sessions had made personal pleas to lawmakers not to renew the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment, which bars the…
La Mesa California
A quarter-acre garden along Imperial Avenue in southeast San Diego is growing a lot more than vegetables.“It’s a wonderful food oasis in a food desert in southeast San Diego,” explained Trisha Gooch, of the local non-profit organization Second Chance, which strives to help those struggling with addiction, incarceration, homelessness and…
Unfounded threats of explosives allegedly placed at two high schools in San Diego’s North County Friday were likely cases of “swatting,” officials confirmed.Swatting is the act of falsely reporting an emergency to authorities, triggering a law enforcement presence to an unwitting person’s address who is not at all involved with…
After two mistrials, a San Diego judge ruled Friday there will be no retrial in a case involving a 15-time deportee accused in a DUI hit-and-run crash that seriously injured a boy on his way home from Disneyland.A judge decided there would be no new evidence for either side to…
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions move to urge federal prosecutors to seek death for drug traffickers “dealing in extremely large quantities” this week has some in the legal cannabis community worried, NBC News reported.The guidelines for capital punishment include selling 60,000 kilograms of marijuana product annually or $20 millon in…
