Cannabis is big business, so it was only a matter of time before someone filed a consumer class action claiming that his cannabis was schwag. It happened in Illinois, where a judge in the Northern District promptly shot it down—not because the plaintiff’s theory was necessarily wrong, but because his theory of deception was a
Back in our AUSA days we prosecuted many drug cases. That was a significant part of our job. The defendants were uniformly unsavory and many were violent. That being said, the mandatory minimum sentences were often crazily high. Sell 50.1 grams of crack and eat ten years. If you had a prior drug conviction (hardly