By Troy Kinsey, cfnews13.com November 29, 2011 TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s facing a $2 billion budget shortfall. State lawmakers are trying to find ways to tackle it, and now some are floating the radical idea of legalizing medical marijuana. They call it a way to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue and [...]
By Jennifer Brande, wbez.org Nov. 29, 2011 North suburban Evanston is easing penalties for marijuana possession. Anyone caught in Evanston with 10 grams of marijuana or less will be getting a ticket instead of being sent to jail. The Evanston city council voted unanimously in favor of the ordinance Monday night. Councilman Donald Wilson cited [...]
By Steve Elliott, tokeofthetown.com Friday, November 25, 2011 A petition now circulating in Missouri would place a constitutional amendment on the November 2012 ballot to legalize marijuana for people 21 and older. The “Show-Me Cannabis Initiative” calls for a repeal of marijuana prohibition in the state, reports Kevin Murphy at the South County Times. The [...]
By Steve Elliott, tokeofthetown.com November 25, 2011 A new marijuana DNA database can tell if a particular batch of cannabis is one of more than 25 types that have been genetically mapped by a forensic botanist in Connecticut. DNA analysis has almost unlimited potential in helping patients and breeders — once it’s used for that [...]
By ERIK ECKHOLM, New York Times November 23, 201 UKIAH, Calif. — An intensifying federal crackdown on growers and sellers of state-authorized medical marijuana has badly shaken the billion-dollar industry, which has sprung up in California since voters approved medical use of the drug in 1996, and has highlighted the stark contradiction between federal and [...]
Chris Roberts, The Chronicle November 25, 2011 The federal Department of Justice’s crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in California has meant the loss of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue, according to cannabis advocates and government statistics. An estimated 2,500 people statewide have lost their jobs since late September, when California’s [...]
by Ethan A. Huff, The Canadian 26 November 2011 Cannabis has been linked to curing cancers and diverse diseases. Barack Obama received tons of campaign money from Big Pharma, which apparently would loose money if individuals by using marijuana could cure diverse cancers and diseases. (NaturalNews) – The battle continues to rage between the individual states and [...]
Associated Press, Nov 21 2011 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday pardoned five people convicted of charges ranging from intent to distribute marijuana to running an illegal gambling business. And he issued his first commutation, ordering the release of a woman next month after serving 10 years on a 22-year sentence for cocaine [...]
WEED WARS Premieres Thursday, December 1 at 10PM E/P, Simulcast on Discovery Channel and Discovery Fit & Health Channel (Silver Spring, MD.) – For the first time on television, a weekly series takes an up close and personal look at the controversial business of medicinal cannabis as WEED WARS premieres Thursday, December 1 at 10PM [...]
By Eric Spitznagel, Bloomberg Businessweek for sfgate.com November 19, 2011 At the 2011 Hempcon medical marijuana convention in Denver in October, business lectures and panel discussions shared the program with more provocative events, like a Miss Hempcon pageant, in which scantily clad women – many dressed as nurses – danced for the audience. Offering a [...]
In suing U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and the top federal prosecutor in Northern California, Americans for Safe Access accuses the Obama administration of using coercive tactics to interfere with powers delegated to the states. By John Hoeffel, Los Angeles TimesOctober 29, 2011 Medical marijuana advocates want a federal court to halt the recent raids [...]
The Associated Press, Sacramento Bee Oct. 28, 2011 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Medical marijuana advocates appear to be on their way to qualifying a referendum that would repeal a package of zoning regulations designed to limit how and where pot dispensaries can operate in the city of San Jose and initially cap their number at [...]
otcquity.com Oct 28 2011 It’s hard enough to run a successful business when you’re competing with other companies in a particular industry but it becomes infinitely more difficult when your business faces a steady stream of obstacles thrown up by the Federal Government. As confident as Cannabis Science, Inc. (OTCBB: CBIS) is about their future [...]
Prohibition benefits organized crime, group says CBC News Oct 27, 2011 A coalition of prominent B.C. police officers, health professionals, legal experts and academics is calling for the legalization and regulated sale of marijuana. The group Stop the Violence, which includes former B.C. Supreme Court justice Ross Lander and B.C.’s former chief coroner Vince Cain, [...]
BY LISA DONOVAN AND FRAN SPIELMAN, Denver Post October 27, 2011 Cook County Commissioner John Fritchey and a handful of Chicago aldermen are calling for the city and neighboring towns to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana possession. The move would allow officers to issue a $200 ticket to someone suspected of carrying 10 grams or [...]
marketwatch.com Oct 28 2011 PHOENIX and DENVER, Oct. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Altitude Organic Corporation (erbb:OTC), a leading national, publicly-traded medical marijuana company, is pleased to update on the progress of its brand-licensed Altitude Organic Medicine dispensaries. Despite the constantly changing medical marijuana industry and evolving national regulations, Altitude Organic Medicine is currently [...]
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer October 28, 2011 The Obama administration’s campaign against medical marijuana dispensaries in California is an unconstitutional attack on the state’s authority to set its own health policies, an advocacy group charged in a lawsuit Thursday. While the federal government is entitled to enforce its laws against marijuana possession, cultivation and [...]
by Dan Riffle, mmp.blog October 21, 2011 If you’ve been following news in the drug policy world, you know that Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) is sponsoring the National Criminal Justice Commission Act. The bill would create a blue-ribbon panel that, according to Webb, would “take the long-overdue step of undertaking a comprehensive review of the [...]
by Cyndi Woo, Fence Viewer October 26, 2011 ELLSWORTH — Business has been good since the new medical marijuana dispensary on Bucksport Road opened July 2. Maine Organic Therapy now serves over 100 patients. The dispensary is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. “We do see that changing, however, to [...]
by John Ingold, The Denver Post Oct 27 2011 Colorado has begun issuing the first state medical-marijuana business licenses in the nation, the culmination of a more than year-long application process for dispensaries and marijuana- infused-products makers. The state has issued 11 licenses to businesses in Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and Littleton, according [...]
by Rachel Gordon, sfgate.com Oct 25 2011 In light of a recent federal crackdown on medical marijuana, seven San Francisco supervisors signed in support of legislation urging the feds to reverse course. “I believe it’s important for us at this time for the City and County of San Francisco, for the Board of Supervisors, to [...]
By Associated Press,Washington Post October 26 2011 DENVER — A high-ranking U.S. Justice Department official who wrote a memo saying state medical marijuana laws do not provide immunity from federal prosecution refused to say Wednesday whether a recent crackdown in California signals a shift in federal policy that may result in a crackdown in other states. [...]
Lucia Graves, Huffington Post Oct 27 2011 WASHINGTON — U.S. attorneys have a message for California’s medical marijuana advocates: Don’t blame Barack Obama. After it was announced that the crackdown on medical pot establishments in the Golden State was a collective decision by the four U.S. attorneys in California and not the result of any [...]
By Lisa Satayut, Midland Daily News Oct 25 2011 The faint smell of medical marijuana wafted through parts of the Delta College Lecture Theater during an Oct. 19 event that brought public officials to campus to talk about the controversial law. The event was open to the public and attracted medical marijuana patients, Delta College [...]
By SUSANNA KIM, abc news Oct. 26, 2011 In its effort to shut down California’s booming medical marijuana dispensaries, the Justice Department is seeking to seize the property where the clinics are based, even going after at least one bank that holds the mortgage on a clinic. Chase bank received a letter to evict the [...]
By Steve Elliott, The Daily Weekly Oct. 25 2011 The first thing I noticed about Have-a-Heart CC, a medical-marijuana dispensary on Aurora Avenue, was the bright-green trimming on its compact offices–an eye-catcher for sure, making it easy to spot among its more sedately painted neighbors.But what I’ll remember most about Have-a-Heart was the excellent customer [...]
Robin Wilkey, Lucia Graves, Huffington Post Oct 25 2011 SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of marijuana advocates gathered in downtown San Francisco Tuesday to protest recent federal crackdowns on California’s medical cannabis industry while President Obama attended a fundraising luncheon at the nearby W Hotel. Among the demonstrators was an employee at a local marijuana collective. [...]
Kate Moser, The Recorder October 24, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeal court on Monday tossed a pound of marijuana as evidence in a case where police had opened a shipped package that smelled strongly of pot. “Was the warrantless search justified based on smell alone?” wrote Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert of the Second [...]
By: Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator October 24th, 2011 As 50% of Americans now support marijuana legalization, the prohibitionists are coming out in full force with hysterical propaganda to once again terrorize voters about cannabis. We intended to scour multiple sources to compile the five most common scare tactics they use, but Joseph Summerill, director of the Summerill [...]
By Associated Press, washingtonpost.com October 24, 2011 PRAGUE — A government advisory body in the Czech Republic is working on a new law to legalize growing and consuming medical marijuana. The experts have proposed that marijuana would be imported or grown locally by registered firms licensed for such activity, which is currently illegal. The group also [...]
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