1) New counsel to steward city of Oakland through pot farm permitting. Last week, Oakland’s City Attorney John Russo — a longtime medical cannabis ally — publicly told the City Council he wasn’t going to help them with their embattled plan. The firm Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson will now be representing the city of Oakland on all of its pot farm-related legal proceedings.
2) Let’s stop printing money to keep 9,000 non-violent drug offenders in California jails, the Drug Policy Alliance’s Margaret Dooley-Sammuli argues. The Cato Institute estimates California will spend $1 billion per year on its pot laws alone. More news after the jump.
.The Roundup: Oakland’s Got New Pot Lawyers; 2012 Drug War Budget Grows
