Sunday, February 14, 2010
Among the cartels many sources of profit, illegal sales of cannabis account for the majority of their funds at roughly 60 percent, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
While debate over how best to fight the increasingly powerful criminal groups continues to wage within the U.S., many Mexican officials have arrived to the conclusion that [...]
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Neither the administration nor Congress is ready for a serious dialogue on ending marijuana prohibition, though. Congress is even stymied when it comes to medical marijuana — many elected officials still insist they can’t spend their political capital on it. With support for medical marijuana at 81 percent, one has to wonder — just how [...]
It’s the “catch-22″ that has plagued medical marijuana advocates and patients for decades. Lawmakers and health regulators demand clinical studies on the safety and efficacy of medical cannabis, but the federal agency in charge of such research bars these investigations from ever taking place.
But it took until now for the federal government to finally [...]
The medical marijuana debate among American voters is over.
Eight in 10 Americans — 81% overall — support allowing doctors to prescribe cannabis, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll.
That’s up from just 69% in 1997, the last time the two firms asked that question, and from 75% in 2003, according to Gallup.
via Eight in 10 [...]
Seattle’s new city attorney is dismissing all marijuana-possession cases, starting with those that were already under way under the old city attorney.
City Attorney Pete Holmes, who beat incumbent Tom Carr in November, said he dismissed two marijuana-related cases in his first day on the job, and several others are about to be dismissed.
In addition, his [...]
Gov. Jon Corzine tonight signed a measure making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes, part of a flurry of bills the Democrat penned in his last full day on the job.
via N.J. medical marijuana law signed by Gov. Corzine | New Jersey Real-Time News – – NJ.com.
The “war”, declared unilaterally throughout the world by Richard Nixon in 1969, is expiring as its strategists start discarding plans that have proved futile over four decades: they are preparing to withdraw their agents from narcotics battlefields from Colombia to Afghanistan and beginning to coach them in the art of trumpeting victory and melting away into [...]
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The N.J. Legislature on Monday approved a bill that would make the state the 14th to allow chronically ill patients access to marijuana for medical reasons.
Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine supports the legislation and could sign it before leaving office next week, making it law.
The bill allows patients with ailments such as cancer, AIDS and multiple [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Political expediency “rules the roost” over scientific advice, one of the three latest government drug advisers to resign has told BBC News.
Dr Simon Campbell quit the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs on Monday, over the sacking of chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt.
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He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “When we made our [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Med Grow Cannabis College, located in the Detroit suburb of Southfield, is set to graduate its first class of students later this month. Its co-founder and president, Nick Tennant, the 24-year-old son of a General Motors Corp. employee, said he sees a significant opportunity to teach standards and safety in an industry that can eventually [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
DENVER — A judge overturned tight restrictions Tuesday on Colorado medical marijuana providers, saying state health officials had ignored the needs of patients and violated open meetings laws while imposing the rules.
The ruling by Denver District Judge Larry Naves means medical marijuana providers can continue supplying the drug to registered users without having to provide [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
For years, one of the main arrows in the quiver of anti-pot zealots in arguing against medical marijuana (along with the federal pot prohibition, recently blunted by the Obama Administration) has been “But the American Medical Association says pot has no medical value.” As of today, that’s no longer true.
In a move considered historic by [...]
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Professor David Nutt didn’t play the game. As the chief drug policy advisor in the British Government, an unspoken part of his job description was to help maintain a public fiction about marijuana – or cannabis, as it is known in the U.K. and other parts of the world. Specifically, he was expected to further the misperception [...]
A Colorado appellate court upheld the conviction of a woman who grew marijuana at home, saying as a medical “caregiver,” she must know her patients.
Stacy Clendenin of Longmont, Colo., who was charged in 2006 with cultivating marijuana, had told a trial court the marijuana she raised was distributed by marijuana dispensaries to authorized patients, The [...]
Saturday, October 24, 2009
For medical marijuana patients, mounting evidence continues to validate the assertion that cannabis deserves an honored place in their medicine cabinet.
In 1974, a National Institute of Health study found THC slowed the growth of three types of cancers in mice. Local growers are tracking emerging research and developing cannabis strains containing greater amounts of disease-specific [...]
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