Legal Related Seattle Will Vacate Unjust Marijuana Convictions that Targeted People of Color by Sophia Vida September 25, 2018 Every judge on Seattle's municipal court agreed this week to vacate over 500 convictions from 1996 to 210 for misdemeanor marijuana possession. The seven judges agreed that the convictions had dis-proportionally impacted people...
Legal Related Seattle Aims to Abolish Hundreds of Marijuana Related Convictions by Sophia Vida April 28, 2018 Prosecutors in Seattle are looking to wipe out over 500 convictions against people that have been caught with small amounts of marijuana in the city. Before 2010, 542 people had been convicted for minor possession charges. It w...
Legal Related Seattle May Be On Its Way to Dismissing Marijuana Misdemeanors by Sophia Vida February 09, 2018 This week the Mayor of Seattle as well as the city attorney announced plans to ask the courts to vacate all misdemeanor marijuana possession convictions that were prosecuted before the state legalized the drug in 2012. Many peo...
Trends & Articles New Study Finds that A Quarter of Cancer Patients Have Used Marijuana by Sophia Vida September 25, 2017 According to a new study in the journal Cancer, around a quarter of cancer patients have used cannabis in the last year. The study involved over 900 cancer patients in Seattle, where both recreational and medicinal marijuana ar...
