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Recently, I conducted a Preliminary Hearing on a felony arrest by a local law enforcement agency (which shall go nameless). The person arrested was a member of a medical marijuana collective and was stopped for a traffic violation, after which his car was searched and the deputy found 817 grams (About 1 ½ pounds) of marijuana in the trunk.

A recent article appeared on Facebook making a wild claim of a large number of Overdoses on marijuana on the day it became legal in Colorado. There are many problems facing the State of Colorado because of the legalization of marijuana, but the risk of overdose, however, is not one of them

Other than the failure of the president's AFFORDABLE health care, Marijuana is one of the hottest topics in the news today. There are few newspapers or television news/talk shows that do not talk about it every day.

Family Law is an extremely broad category of laws that include, divorce actions, paternity actions, custody and visitation issues, child support issues, property division issues as well as conservatorship actions.

As stated by numerous news sources, the United States Deputy Attorney General has set forth and published new guidelines regarding marijuana enforcement that is applicable to people living in specific states that have laws allowing medical marijuana as well as states where marijuana has been legalized. While the updated policy is a significant step in the right direction, it is important to note that it is not a Get out of jail free card.

Medical marijuana collective dispensaries are required to follow the same building codes, land use and local permitting ordinances as other businesses. They need to obtain building permits before doing most lease hold improvements.

Sex Crimes is a general category of violations of the penal code that can range from simple misdemeanors to aggravated felonies.

When two persons enter into a family law court in order to obtain a divorce, one of the functions of the court will be divide the community property equally between the parties. The court generally is required to equally divide the parties' community assets and liabilities. Although an ideal property disposition by a court would be a mathematically equal division it is not always possible that each community estate asset be precisely divided.

Business and civil litigation is a "Catch all Phrase" that includes a myriad of several different types of lawsuits. In reality, business and civil rights litigation can be broken into several main principles:

The court has a tremendous amount of discretion to choose a parenting plan that is in the best interests of the child. To guide the courts in exercising discretion, the Legislature has set forth certain specific issues that the court must consider which include: