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.
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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.
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 [...]
Monday, December 28, 2009
Washington is one of four states where measures to legalize and regulate marijuana have been introduced, and about two dozen other states are considering bills ranging from medical marijuana to decriminalizing possession of small amounts of the herb.
“In terms of state legislatures, this is far and away the most active year that we’ve ever seen,” [...]
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The medical marijuana debate is gathering steam in California, as two disparate engines are catapulting headlong down parallel paths that appear destined to collide in the distance. The impending collision could chart the future course on legalization of marijuana in America.
In just the past year, California has seen a proliferation of “pot doc” clinics sprouting [...]
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
With a philosophy seemingly diametrically opposed to that of elected law enforcement officials in Los Angeles, the attorney general of Colorado, John Suthers (a Republican), has advised the governor of that state that medical marijuana sales should be regulated and taxed like alcohol and tobacco (and not tax- exempt like pharmaceuticals are, as medical cannabis [...]
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 [...]
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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