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In effect, the proposed law would legalize cannabis cafes similar to those popular in Amsterdam.

The legislation would clarify that banks, credit unions, armored car services, and accounting services are not subject to prosecution under state law for simply working with legal cannabis businesses.

Titled “Prohibit Red Flag Gun Seizure Act,” the new law prohibits any state or local agency “from implementing or enforcing any federal statute, rule, executive order, judicial order or judicial findings or any state statute, rule, executive order, judicial order or judicial findings that would enforce a red flag gun seizure order against or upon a resident of Wyoming” who is legally allowed to possess a firearm under state law. It also prohibits the state and its political subdivisions ...

Law enforcement agencies lined up to oppose the measure, including the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Kansas Peace Officers Association, the Kansas Sheriffs Association, and the Kansas Association of Chiefs of Police. The police lobby groups all complained that prohibiting them from helping to enforce federal gun control would jeopardize their "partnerships" with federal law enforcement.

Titled the Kansas Gun Rights Preservation Act, the bill would prohibit an agency of the state, a political subdivision of the state, and their employees from knowingly and willingly participating in any way in the enforcement of any federal act, law, executive order, administrative order, rule or regulation regarding a firearm, firearm accessory or ammunition against a law-abiding citizen.

Titled “Prohibit Red Flag Gun Seizure Act,” the proposed law prohibits any state or local agency “from implementing or enforcing any federal statute, rule, executive order, judicial order or judicial findings or any state statute, rule, executive order, judicial order or judicial findings that would enforce a red flag gun seizure order against or upon a resident of Wyoming.”

Titled the Second Amendment Preservation Act, the bill would prohibit a state or municipal agency in Alask from knowingly enforcing, attempting to enforce, or participating in the enforcement of "an order of the President of the United States, a federal regulation, or a law enacted by the United States Congress relating to firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition if the enforcement or implementation is against a law-abiding citizen." It would also bar state and local agencies from ...

The Arizona Senate passed the Defend the Guard Act, a bill that would empower the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s National Guard troops.

The proposed law would legalize the possession of marijuana for adults 21 and over, and create a tax and regulatory scheme for the commercial cultivation and sale of cannabis and cannabis products. A maximum of 15 licensed stores would begin opening approximately two years after the law was enacted.

On Wednesday, the South Carolina Senate passed a bill to legalize medical marijuana, ban the state from enforcing federal banking laws related to cannabis, and prohibit state and local agencies from informing the federal government about any firearm owner who uses medical marijuana.