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A Mt. Lebanon man is accused by Allegheny County detectives of taking $153,800 over seven years from a Shadyside financial planning and advising firm where he used to work, according to court papers.
Black Pennsylvanians were arrested for marijuana possession at more than three times the rate of whites in a five-year period from 2014 through 2018, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
Gov. Tom Wolf says he is now in favor of legalizing marijuana for recreational use in Pennsylvania, and is asking lawmakers to consider it.
The criminalization of the possession and use of cannabis has had an unequivocally negative effect on our communities. As Allegheny County’s next District Attorney, Turahn Jenkins for District Attorney is committed to ending prosecution of such offenses
Pennsylvania’s classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug with no accepted medical use runs counter to the state’s own medical marijuana program and should be eliminated, a defense attorney and legalization advocate told a Superior Court of Pennsylvania panel Wednesday.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman will wade into the weeds to gauge public interest in legalizing recreational marijuana during a 67-county tour of the state beginning Saturday in Pittsburgh.
The case against the Carrick man accused of killing a man and dismembering his body is moving forward.
Nearly 12,000 people have signed up for Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program. A law, created in 2016, gives people under a physician’s care access to medical marijuana if they suffer from 17 qualifying conditions. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), cancer and epilepsy are on the list, among others. But a new hurdle could make the choices of patients even more difficult. Due to federal law, any illegal drug use disqualifies a person from owning or puchasing a firearm.
Are you a gun enthusiast who plans to participate in the state’s medical marijuana program? If you’re planning on buying a new firearm, attorneys suggest you make that purchase before you take the first dose of your legally-obtained medicine.
The choice between having access to medical marijuana or keeping his firearms isn’t one Patrick Nightingale will make. The Pittsburgh-area criminal defense attorney and executive director of the Pennsylvania Medical Cannabis Society is sticking to his guns and state-issued medical marijuana card and wants others to do the same.