“Federally-regulated Marijuana research must be implemented…” Senator Carolyn Allen (R-AZ) By Sam Sabzehzar | Americans for Scientific Freedom Watch Dr. Sisley discuss how medical marijuana may help symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Calling it a disorder is about as accurate as the scheduling of cannabis in the CSA, especially when it is war-related. [...]
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With its decision, the Court has ensured that the debate over the medical use of marijuana will continue to take place through political battles rather than through scientific research. By Brad Burge | Published in MAPS.org The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit rejected University of Massachusetts-Amherst Prof. Lyle Craker’s lawsuit against [...]
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Patients who are terminally ill, have impaired mobility or simply lack the space, deserve a safe, local and well-regulated facility By Eugene Davidovich | Published in UT San Diego Seventeen years after California voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 215, many prohibitionists have distorted the law and voters’ intent, claiming “medical marijuana” was only supposed to be [...]
53-year-old transplant patient Jerry Duval recently received a federal surrender order to serve out 10-year sentence By Kris Hermes | April 15, 2013 Late last week, 53-year-old Michigan medical marijuana patient Jerry Duval received a Justice Department order to surrender to federal authorities on June 11th to begin serving a 10-year prison sentence at the [...]
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Published by The Brookings Institute Stuart Taylor, Jr. examines how the federal government and the eighteen states (plus the District of Columbia) that have partially legalized medical or recreational marijuana or both since 1996 can be true to their respective laws, and can agree on how to enforce them wisely while avoiding federal-state clashes that [...]
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With a myriad of major announcements surrounding San Bernardino’s budget crisis, could well-regulated and controlled medical marijuana dispensaries be the solution? By Sam Sabzehzar | April 8, 2013 The City of San Bernardino is going through a crisis few cities in the U.S. have ever seen. Scandal after scandal among the elite circles of San [...]
Order a copy of the DVD Today! By Steph Sherer | Executive Director, Americans for Safe Access Americans for Safe Access first ever National Medical Cannabis Unity Conference was a huge success! More than 250 patients, advocates, and others from thirty-four states met in Washington, DC, for three days of education, strategy, and skills building, [...]
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By Diane Goldstein | Published in Ladybud.com In 1983 I was hired as a police officer in the community that I grew up in. If you had asked my friends, they would have said law enforcement was an unlikely professional choice for me, but I understood that it would not just challenge me personally, but [...]
By Phillip Smith | Published in Stop The Drug War Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) joined Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) in introducing legislation that would give federal judges greater flexibility in sentencing in cases where mandatory minimum sentences are involved. The bill, Senate Bill 691, also known as the Justice Safety Valve [...]
Patient plaintiffs argue that federal appeals panel has set unreasonable standard for medical efficacy By Kris Hermes | Published in SafeAccessNow.org Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed a petition with the federal court of appeals today in a widely watched case that seeks to reclassify marijuana for medical use. Plaintiffs [...]
