State Needs To Clean Up Medical Marijuana Mess

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Medical marijuana in California is an utter mess, a mockery of what most voters intended when they approved Proposition 215 in 1996. It was supposed to be a nonprofit enterprise, but has spawned a $1.5 billion industry in which networks of storefront dispensaries and large growing operations are reaping millions of dollars. Cities and counties [...]
October 12, 2011 · Posted in California, Highlight, Medical Marijuana, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

Federal Prosecutors Launching Crackdown on CA

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Federal prosecutors in California are cracking down on some of the state’s medical marijuana dispensaries, signaling an escalation of the ongoing conflict between the U.S. government and the nation’s burgeoning medical marijuana industry. The four U.S. attorneys in California, the first state to pass a law legalizing marijuana use for patients with doctors’ recommendations, have [...]
October 8, 2011 · Posted in Bush Administration, California, DEA, Federal Government, Highlight, Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

AG Schuette Looks To Crackdown on Pot ‘Profiteers’

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Over the past three decades, Bill Schuette has served as a state senator, the Michigan agricultural director, a congressman and a state appeals court judge. But he probably never envisioned that the latter stage of his career would be spent as the chief weed killer of Michigan. As the state attorney general, Schuette has led [...]
October 6, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Michigan, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

Doctors Question Whether Marijuana Can Lessen Pain

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The medical community has made progress in dealing with chronic pain, but doctors still disagree on whether marijuana could be used to lessen pain. “There’s been a huge improvement in understanding chronic pain,” said Dr. Todd Lininger, who has a practice in Bloomfield Township and Clarkston and works out of St. Joseph Mercy Oakland in [...]
October 4, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Medical Marijuana, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

Minor Pot Crimes To Be Enforced Again in Missoula

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Marijuana once again is a priority for law enforcement in Missoula County. So says Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg, who issued a reminder about a new law that took effect on Saturday. “We’ll be prosecuting the misdemeanor marijuana cases that we have not been doing for the last 4-1/2 years,” he said. Under the [...]
October 3, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Marijuana Law Enforcement, Marijuana Laws, Missoula, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

In Decades-Old Program, Uncle Sam Provides Pot

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Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found less than an ounce of pot on one passenger: A chatty 72-year-old woman blind in one eye. She insisted the weed was legal and was approved by the U.S. government. The trooper and his [...]
September 29, 2011 · Posted in DEA, Highlight, Medical Marijuana Patients, Reefer Madness, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

N.M. Medical Cannabis Program Needs Work

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Four years after New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Program was created, nearly 4,000 New Mexico residents have been approved to use the herb as medicine, and 25 nonprofit producers have been licensed to sell it to them. New Mexico’s system for regulating those producers is being adopted by other states as a model for allowing medicinal [...]
September 26, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Medical Marijuana, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

Child rapist to get less time than Pot Growers

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is getting tougher on pot growers than he is on rapists of children. Under the Tories’ omnibus crime legislation tabled Tuesday, a person growing 201 pot plants in a rental unit would receive a longer mandatory sentence than someone who rapes a toddler or forces a five-year-old to have sex with [...]
September 22, 2011 · Posted in Canadian Cannabis News, Conservatives, Federal Government, Highlight, Mandatory Minimums, Marijuana Law Enforcement, Marijuana Laws, Stephen Harper  
　　　　

Rand Study Finds Less Crime Near Pot Dispensaries

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Medical marijuana dispensaries — with storerooms of high-priced weed, registers brimming with cash and some clientele more interested in getting high than getting well — are often seen as magnets for crime, a perception deepened by a few high-profile murders. But a report from the Rand Corp. reaches a startling conclusion: The opposite appears to [...]
September 22, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Los Angeles, Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

My War On Drug Laws

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Our marijuana laws are outdated, ineffective and stupid. I’m not alone in thinking this: Half of Americans believe we should stop punishing people for using marijuana. And not coincidentally, more than half of Americans have used marijuana themselves. I am one of those Americans, and I know firsthand that marijuana can be helpful and that [...]
September 21, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Marijuana Laws, Marijuana Legalization, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

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