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Consumer watchdog shut down

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis and subprime mortgage-lending scandal. Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed the CFPB to

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Montana: Republican Lawmaker Calls for State Surveillance of Consumers’ Retail Marijuana Purchases

“This legislation is anti-freedom, unnecessarily jeopardizes Montanans’ personal privacy, and seeks to fundamentally undermine the will of the 57 percent of voters who decided at the ballot box to legalize the adult-use cannabis market.” The post Montana: Republican Lawmaker Calls for State Surveillance of Consumers’ Retail Marijuana Purchases appeared first on NORML.