Items tagged with medical marijuana

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Fate of LA pot shops left to voters [19-05-13] Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighbo...
DEA: Warning letters to 11 pot dispensaries don’t signal war on state law [01-05-13] The Drug Enforcement Administration sent cease-and-desist letters to 11 medical-marijuana dispensaries because they are within 1,000 feet of schools o...
Cannabis to substitute crack [22-04-13] The mayor of Bogota has recently proposed a pilot scheme with crack cocaine addicts to explore the substitution of crack made of cocaine base paste (o...
Rival marijuana measures thrown into the electoral pot [21-04-13] Dozens of medical marijuana activists rallied outside Los Angeles City Hall, declaring war on an enemy. Their target was not the federal government, w...
Denver's 4/20 pot parties a "coming out for cannabis" [15-04-13] Tens of thousands of people will attend Saturday's "4/20" rally in Denver, creating perhaps the largest collectively produced cloud of ...
Bill introduced in Congress would fix conflict between state, federal marijuana laws [12-04-13] A bill introduced in Congress would fix the conflict between the federal government’s marijuana prohibition and state laws that allow medical or recre...
A map that shows the dramatic spread of legal weed in the US [08-04-13] Looking at the recent spread of liberalized marijuana laws across the United States, it's hard not to think we're entering some kind of Weed...
Highs and lows in cannabis policy reform [30-03-13] Cannabis is the most widely produced and consumed illicit substance globally. A significant number of states have long engaged in soft defection from ...
Scathing audit throws Colorado recreational marijuana rules into chaos [28-03-13] Colorado's under-construction plan for regulating recreational marijuana nearly came unglued when lawmakers questioned whether the agency that wo...
Audit: Serious flaws in Colorado's regulation of medical marijuana [26-03-13] State regulators charged with watching over Colorado's medical marijuana industry have fallen short on everything from tracking inventory and man...
Medical marijuana dispensaries: High-tech tracking system unfulfilled [24-03-13] The technology was supposed to efficiently track medical marijuana from seed to sale — the catch-phrase that came to define Colorado's efforts to...
Wall Street sees opportunity in marijuana [23-03-13] A number of businesses in the burgeoning U.S. cannabis industry are trying to enlist Wall Street's help. Some entrepreneurs see marijuana heading...
French court rejects sick man's cannabis plea [13-03-13] A French man suffering from a muscular disease since childhood had his request to be given the right to use cannabis for medicinal reasons rejected by...
Colorado medical-marijuana businesses have declined by 40 percent [03-03-13] In the summer of 2010, after legislators passed a law legitimizing dispensaries, there were 1,117 medical-marijuana businesses in Colorado. By the end...
New Health Canada marijuana regulations may drive some into the bush [21-02-13] The Conservative government's new medicinal pot system may lead some patients to illicitly grow their pot outdoors. Under proposed changes taking...
U.S. can proceed with plans to close Oakland pot shop, court says [15-02-13] A U.S. magistrate judge on Thursday sided with federal prosecutors in dismissing a lawsuit by the city of Oakland that challenged as illegal federal a...
Battle over medical marijuana [11-02-13] More than a decade ago, after several court rulings, the federal government was forced to create regulations allowing people with legitimate needs to ...
California high court seems inclined to uphold bans on pot shops [06-02-13] The California Supreme Court appeared inclined to uphold municipal bans against medical marijuana dispensaries. Meeting for oral arguments, the state ...
Medical marijuana is greenlit [06-02-13] Medical marijuana may soon be legally sold and available via doctors' prescriptions, with senators overwhelmingly approving the legislation in a ...
Ontario’s top court upholds country’s marijuana laws in medicinal pot case [01-02-13] Canada’s ban on marijuana was effectively upheld when Ontario’s top court struck down the country’s laws related to medicinal pot much to the chagrin ...

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