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  
　　　　

Crackdown Gets Tighter on Medical-Marijuana

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Authorities from Lansing to Oakland County further tightened their grip this week on those they said abused Michigan’s medical-marijuana law over the protests of those who use and distribute the drug for health purposes. A state Appeals Court decision Tuesday — the second such ruling in a week against medical-marijuana users — upheld the conviction [...]
September 1, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Medical Marijuana, Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Medical Marijuana Patients, Michigan, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

Ex-Mountie Sues Over Medical Pot Raid

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A former RCMP officer living with severe multiple sclerosis is suing the Mounties and Health Canada for damages suffered after his former colleagues raided his medical marijuana nursery. Carlos (Cam) Cavaco, 50, and his wife Marnie O’Neil, who also acts as his sole caregiver, on Thursday filed a B.C. Supreme Court lawsuit alleging that on [...]
August 27, 2011 · Posted in Health Canada, Highlight, Medical Marijuana Canadian, Medical Marijuana Patients, RCMP  
　　　　

Spliff Decision: Angel Of Medical-Marijuana Mercy, Or Drug Dealer

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FACEDOWN ON the pavement with two pounds of pot in her trunk and a cop punching her in the side, Colleen Begley could have packed her bohemian lifestyle away and called it quits. The Moorestown native could have dimed out all her longtime friends for a lesser sentence, with the hope of someday returning to [...]
August 24, 2011 · Posted in Activistism, Highlight, Medical Marijuana, Medical Marijuana Patients, NORML, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

Marijuana as Medicine

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A panel that met Wednesday to explore whether Maryland should modify its marijuana laws may have come up with the most practical proposal yet to allow the medical use of marijuana by people suffering from chronic pain or illness, while discouraging the abuses that have plagued other states’ efforts to legalize the drug. The plan, [...]
August 19, 2011 · Posted in Baltimore, Highlight, Medical Marijuana Laws, Medical Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana Patients, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

Michigan Legislators Seek Changes To Marijuana Law

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Prompted by an abundance of pot-oriented shops, confused law enforcement officials and numerous legal disputes, some Michigan lawmakers are planning a major push to change or clarify a voter-approved state law allowing marijuana to be used for medical purposes. New bills are being drafted for introduction to the state Legislature within the next few months, [...]
August 15, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Marijuana Law Enforcement, Medical Marijuana Laws, Medical Marijuana Patients, Michigan, Police, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

Bills Tackle Misuse of MMJ Law, AG Says

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Michigan’s medical marijuana law has been abused, exploited and hijacked by pot profiteers, said state Attorney General Bill Schuette in pushing a package of bills that will close loopholes in the law that was intended to provide pot to people with terminal, debilitating and chronic diseases. “The law has been hijacked by drug dealers who [...]
August 10, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Medical Marijuana Bills, Medical Marijuana Laws, Medical Marijuana Patients, Michigan, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

No Medical Marijuana for N.S. Welfare Recipients

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Nova Scotians on social assistance will no longer be able to get medical marijuana, gym memberships or hot tubs as a special need. The Department of Community Services is tightening the rules for its special needs funding. Until now, some people on income assistance were able to force the department to pay for pot or [...]
August 9, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Medical Marijuana, Medical Marijuana Canadian, Medical Marijuana Patients, Nova Scotia  
　　　　

Medical Pot Patients Say They Were Denied Care

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Since mid-June, several medical marijuana patients have been denied care at Mark Twain St.  Joseph’s Hospital clinics, and one doctor is telling patients to stop using medicinal marijuana, according to Collective Patient Resources founder Tom Liberty, of Mountain Ranch.  Several patients have been denied care unless they sign a Patient Responsibility Agreement put out by [...]
August 5, 2011 · Posted in California, Highlight, Medical Marijuana Patients, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

N.J. & R.I. Are In Process of Getting Dispensaries

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Medical marijuana advocates in Connecticut have been looking at New Jersey and Rhode Island as potential models for how to create a state-regulated system for growing and dispensing pot to patients in need. Both states’ programs have been in holding patterns for weeks because of potential federal legal objections, but that logjam appears to have [...]
July 26, 2011 · Posted in Highlight, Medical Marijuana, Medical Marijuana Dispensaries, Medical Marijuana Patients, United States Cannabis News  
　　　　

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