
By Fred Gardner | Published in O’Shaughnessy’s A three-judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for Bryan Epis, 42, the first California medical marijuana grower convicted in federal court in the Prop 21 era, Jay Bybee was one of those three judges. The jugdes’ 11-page decision [...]

Daily Pilot Editor’s note: Judge James P. Gray (Ret.) was a speaker Feb. 16 at the closing banquet of an international forum titled “Drugs Unbalanced — After a Century of Their Prohibition.” The forum was sponsored by Mexico United Against Delinquency, and was held at the Anthropological Museum in Mexico City. The following is a summary of his comments. By Judge [...]

By LEAP | Published in Cops Say Legalized Drugs Pat Robertson created a firestorm when he first called for the decriminalization of marijuana in December 2010, causing even his Christian Broadcasting Network’s own publicist to deny that that’s what he actually meant. Well, in a March 1 segment of “The 700 Club” that went largely unnoticed, Dr. Robertson is [...]