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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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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By Phillip Smith | Published in StopTheDrugWar.Org Medical marijuana became legal Monday in the Czech Republic and is now available for sale in pharmacies. Monday was part of the Easter holiday there, so it didn’t actually go on sale until Tuesday. Medical marijuana is available by prescription only and has been approved for people suffering [...]
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L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, a cancer patient, says ‘life is now worth living’ thanks to his weed regimen. But his story also illustrates the pitfalls of a patchwork DIY system. By Gale Holland | Published in the Los Angeles Times Bill Rosendahl lifts his walker over the threshold and carries it into the grow [...]
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Americans for Safe Access Foundation (ASAF) has created a three-part program to address product and distribution safety in the medical cannabis industry. By Jill Lamoureux | Published in SafeAccessNow.org As states across the country have granted patients’ rights to access medical cannabis, a new industry has formed to meet these needs. Many states and localities [...]
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By Lauren Payne | February 4, 2013 The AP is reporting that Democratic Representatives from Colorado & Oregon will be introducing legislation tomorrow to regulate cannabis in states that choose to legalize marijuana. Regulatory oversight would be vested with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, rather than the Drug Enforcement Agency. The proposed legislation [...]
By Tamsyn Burgmann | Published in HuffPost Canada Ottawa’s decision to snuff its role in dispensing medical marijuana has ignited a debate over how the move will impact public health and safety. A range of groups — including those representing law enforcement officials, physicians and medical cannabis advocates — were reacting Sunday after the federal health [...]
By S.E. Smith | Published in TruthOut.Org The debate over marijuana legalization is heating up across the United States with numerous legalization or decriminalization attempts in recent years and growing numbers turning out in support of reforms to America’s drug policies. The war on drugs costs the United States billions of dollars annually, funds which come [...]
Second SF Dispensary Closes Under Federal Pressure By Chris Roberts | Published in SF Weekly An eviction notice was never so welcome. Last Wednesday, California’s oldest storefront medical marijuana collective, Fairfax-based Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, received an eviction notice from its landlord — which means the dispensary gets to defy the federal government’s new war on [...]
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Now that harvest season is upon us, it’s more important than ever to take every measure to protect the quality of your crops as medical cannabis patients are demanding stricter quality control. By Kat Young | September 27, 2011 THC will rapidly degrade after a cannabis plant has been cut down if exposed to heat, [...]
