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Rand Study On Medical Pot Among Year’s Worst, Scientific American Says
Remember that Rand Corporation study from earlier this year that claimed crime actually increased in L.A. neighborhoods where cops closed medical marijuana dispensaries? The one that forgot to include crime statistics compiled by the Los Angeles Police…
Reefer Madness: The Feds Seem Intent on Destroying Medical Pot
This year, federal authorities have done almost everything in their power to undermine state regulation of medical marijuana.www.alternet.org
Medical pot ranks as blockbuster drug
Sales of medical marijuana are estimated at $1.7 billion annually in the 15 states with laws that permit it, according to the first definitive study of the market. That is on par with sales of Viagra.www.msnbc.msn.com
Medical Marijuana: Is it Good for the Taxman or Is it Good for the Doctor?
Operating a medical pot farm is no small feat — especially when we know there are plenty of police and prosecutors who aren’t, ahem, kind to the industry.
But growing this cash crop could become even more costly and no safer under new legislation i…
Feds Will Study Only ‘Negative Consequences,’ Not Medical Pot
This is the federal government’s marijuana mindset, in a nutshell: That any use of marijuana is by definition “abuse”; therefore, we’ll study only “negative consequences” and not medical benefits.www.tokeofthetown.com
Rare Disease or Not, No Medical Pot Lozenges at School
A Colorado teen with a rare neurological disease wants to do two things: Take the medical marijuana he needs to control his seizures and attend high school. Sounds simple, but, of course, it’s anything but.www.chicagotribune.com
Two Medical Pot States Don’t Require Residency
Out-of-staters may now obtain medical marijuana cards in Oregon and Montana. With the discovery of a loophole in Montana’s medical marijuana law, the Big Sky State joins Oregon in longer requiring residency to obtain legal authorization to use medicina…
Vet Petitions CO Health Board to Allow Medical Pot for PTSD
At 11 a.m. on wednesday July 7th, vets, lawyers and activists hope to present a petition to Ned Calonge, Colorado’s chief medical officer, asking that post-traumatic stress disorder be added to a list of conditions that can be treated by medical mariju…
Cannabis caravans fuel medical pot boom in Montana
Posted by admin in Political News on June 4, 2010
First Montana Grow Circle signed up 15 new patients that day. One of them was a state employee who spoke on condition of anonymity because she feared repercussions.
She went to the clinic, after her personal doctor declined to prescribe medical marijuana for her severe migraine headaches. “He said I am not the type of person he would prescribe…
Medical Pot Cops Confiscate 9-Year-Old’s Minnie Mouse Wallet
Christine Casey runs a medical marijuana dispensary out of her home in Tacoma, Washington. When cops raided the place last week, they cuffed her 14-year-old son, put a gun to his head and confiscated $80 they found in her 9-year-old daughter’s Minnie Mouse wallet.
This Time, Pot Really Might Become Legal
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on March 26, 2010
This week an initiative qualified for the November ballot that would legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana use in the state of California. This follows a year of growing acrimony in Los Angeles County over the flourishing of medical pot dispensaries and efforts by local officials to rein them in.
Cancer Patient Gets Medical Pot Card Two Months After Dying
In early October, Elaine Betts sent her application for a medical marijuana card to the state via registered mail. That card finally arrived a few days ago — more than five months after Elaine had applied, and over two months since she died.
Rep. Polis to AG Holder: Stand By Your Word on Medical Pot
Posted by admin in Political News on February 26, 2010
Colorado Rep. Jared Polis wrote a letter yesterday to Attorney General Eric Holder criticizing the recent federal raids on medical marijuana in Colorado.
Promise ignored, DEA begins raids on medical pot growers
Posted by admin in Political News on February 14, 2010
A day after telling a Denver news station of his profitable medical-marijuana operation, Chris Bartkowicz found himself under arrest by drug-enforcement agents who say they will continue to arrest growers despite a promise from the Obama administration to respect state laws allowing the growing and selling of marijuana for medicinal use.
FBI: Unruly passenger blames medical pot cookies
A San Francisco man claims he was high on a double dose of medical marijuana cookies when he screamed, dropped his pants and attacked crew members on a cross-country flight, forcing its diversion to Pittsburgh, the FBI said Wednesday.
Lack of Access to Medical Pot Is the Poor’s Greatest Problem
Posted by admin in Political Opinion on December 14, 2009
If you work a minimum wage job in a community where there isn’t ready access to medical marijuana dispensaries, you can, legally speaking, spend a couple of weeks of salary getting a pot card and schlep an hour or two on the bus to get to a pot-club in the next county over. But in the real world, you won’t — access matters.
CO medical pot advocates roll out poll showing support
Posted by admin in Political News on December 1, 2009
Medical marijuana advocates released a poll Monday they said shows overwhelming support — by a 2-to-1 margin — for licensing and regulating cannabis dispensaries popping up across Colorado.
Introducing the medical pot prepaid debit card
The weirdest prepaid card news to date: A company is offering a prepaid debit card for medical marijuana users. The card — dubbed the GreenCard — will debut in California and Colorado and double as a photo ID for members and users of legal medical marijuana collectives and dispensaries.
Irony: Gov. Moonbeam Says Medical Pot Sales Illegal (Vid)
In a bitter disappointment to supporters of regulated sales of medical marijuana, California Attorney General Jerry Brown has said in a radio interview that all sales of marijuana are illegal, “no matter what.”
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