The Senator seeks assurances from the Obama Administration that State Officials will not be prosecuted for implementing new laws By Ethan Nadelmann | Published by The Drug Policy Alliance In a letter to U.S. Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) asked how the federal government intends to deal with states like [...]
By Law Enforcement Against Prohibition In a historic night for drug law reformers on Tuesday, Colorado and Washington passed measures legalizing and regulating marijuana, Massachusetts became the 18th state to allow medical marijuana, and six localities voted to modernize policies on marijuana. “Because of the victories in all of these places, we awakened this morning [...]
Medical Marijuana Community Decries Federal Threats Against Public Officials By Kris Hermes | July 1, 2011 Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole issued a controversial memorandum Wednesday in an apparent attempt to clarify federal policy with regard to medical marijuana. Calling marijuana “a dangerous drug,” Cole’s memo threatened enforcement actions against “Persons who are in [...]
By W. Zachary Malinowski | Published in The Providence Journal Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a bill into law on Thursday that allows the establishment of up to four dispensaries to sell marijuana and marijuana-related products to patients registered in the state’s medical-marijuana program. Vermont joins Maine and Rhode Island as the only New England [...]
By Rhonda Winter | Published in Ecolocolizer.com Lost this week amid the deafening cries for the bloody corpse of Osama bin Laden, is the fact that the state of Vermont has passed a single payer universal health care plan for all of its residents. On Thursday lawmakers in Vermont’s State House approved the final version of [...]
“When the law is unjust, the law should be broken” Ernesto “Che” Guevara By Sam Sabzehzar When the laws of the land (including a lack of law that would otherwise protect individuals or minority groups) would infringe on the rights that would ultimately be granted to a group of people, be it the right to [...]
By Phillip Smith | Published in StoptheDrugWar.org A bill that would create a system of state-regulated medical marijuana dispensaries passed the Vermont Senate Friday on a 25-4 vote, but not before being amended to limit patients’ ability to grow their own. The bill, Senate 17, is backed by Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) and now heads [...]
Medical marijuana has been legal in Vermont since 2004, for those with qualifying illnesses — including cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis — who sign up for the state’s registry. The 2004 law allows patients to grow their own marijuana, but advocates say many find that a daunting task, leaving them with the prospect of making illegal deals for street dope.
The state’s medical marijuana registry specifies, “The Marijuana Registry is neither a source for marijuana nor can the Registry provide information to patients on how to obtain marijuana.”
By Tracy Breton | Published in The Providence Journal Fifteen states plus the District of Columbia have legalized medicinal marijuana: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. But the laws allowing it in three of those locations Arizona, New Jersey and the District of [...]
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