• Attorney General Eric Holder announced sweeping changes in federal drug sentencing.
• A federal judge ruled New York's controversial stop and frisk policy, which results in thousands of marijuana arrests annually, is unconstitutional.
• Seattle police said they'd be handing out bags of Doritos along with literature explaining the state's new rules about marijuana, which is legal in Washington, to Hempfest attendees.
• Gov. Kitzhaber signed a bill allowing for cannabis dispensaries in Oregon.
• New York Comptroller and mayoral candidate John Liu announced his plan to tax and regulate marijuana in the Baked Apple.
• Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell when Nevada police found 392 pot plants on her property.
