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I found out about an interesting change to the medical marijuana process in Oregon this last week. Like many of the 36,000+ OMMP participants, I needed to make a minor change of address for my garden, which happens from time to time. In the past, this was an easy, seamless process that only involved sending [...]
The New England School of Alternative Horticultural Studies, a New England-based medical marijuana training center, yesterday announced the September 2010 launch of its Basic Medical Marijuana training class in Warwick, RI, the first professional medical marijuana training class in the north eastern United States. Rhode Island State law allows registered patients or their caregivers to [...]
A Denver man gets paid to smoke pot and write about it as one of the first medical marijuana critics in the country. A decade after medical marijuana was legalized in Colorado, it’s estimated about 2 percent of residents, or more than 100,000 people, have applied for medical marijuana licenses. According to one Harvard economist, [...]
The Oakland City Council voted 5-0 to tax medical marijuana dispensaries and growers 5% of their total revenue in a meeting Monday. Under the plan, Oakland will also levy a 10% tax on recreational pot if state voters pass Proposition 19 and legalize the drug in November. Council members Desley Brooks, Ignacio De La Fuente, [...]
Rutgers University will not be getting into the marijuana growing business. New Jersey’s largest university has declined a request from Gov. Chris Christie to become the lone grower of the state’s medical marijuana crop. Suppliers are needed because of a new law allowing patients with chronic health conditions to access the drug. The university issued [...]
Oakland City Council voted Tuesday to license up to four large-scale marijuana farms in industrial areas to supply the city”s four medical marijuana dispensaries, and promised to later review policies that could include smaller and medium-size farmers. The city will not enforce the new ordinance until the cultivation permits are issued in January. The ordinance [...]
As I was going through the marijuana news today, I came across this great article from The Bozeman Daily Chronicle about the struggles and rewards of medical marijuana growers: Standing in an indoor-growing barn where hundreds of marijuana plants are becoming tall and lush under bright lights, partners Robert Carpenter and Blake Ogle know it [...]
According to the Oregonian newspaper, ‘Secretary of State Kate Brown said Friday that both petitions (one being I-28 of course) had more than the 82,769 valid signatures needed to make the Nov. 2 ballot. Neither has been assigned a ballot measure number yet. That’s because signatures collected on behalf of four other citizen petitions are [...]
Marijuana, Inc. announced the pending application for a true cannabis derived remedy. Marijuana, Inc. intends to file a patent application as the owner of a cannabis-based capsule to be taken orally. This formulation for pain management, one of the integral properties of cannabis, may help those suffering pain from a myriad of diseases. Formulator and [...]
If medical marijuana is legalized in Arizona, 66,000 people would register to be recipients of prescribed cannabis — that’s according to a legislative budget assessment of what the impact would be on the state should medical weed be legalized in Arizona. Analysts predict that 39,600 people would register and that another 26,400 designated caregivers would [...]
For the last year, many Montanans have received their medical marijuana approval via the ‘Montana Caregivers Network (MCN).’ The organization used a business model that involved traveling to various locations around the state and signing up patients the same day they came in with their medical records. As a result of the efficiency of this [...]
I got a disturbing email today from Hawaii medical marijuana patient Nick Stennet. The email detailed how he had recently been offered a job at Home Depot and then had the offer rescinded after failing the pre-employment drug screening. While this discrimination is a fact of life for many medical marijuana patients, it was the [...]
I received the following e-mail from the great people at ASA – San Diego. It seems that the Obama DOJ memo is only worth its weight in toilet paper: San Diego, CA — Federal agents raided at least three San Diego-area medical marijuana dispensaries today in the early morning hours. Sources say that Green Kross, [...]
Medical marijuana experts from around the United States and the local vicinity will be in Kalamazoo, Michigan this weekend to discuss a wide variety of topics related to what organizers call “Cannabusiness.” The two-day “Science and Compassionate Care Seminar,” put on at the Radisson Plaza Hotel & Suites in downtown Kalamazoo by 420 University, will [...]
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden Condemns Marijuana Consumers
In a midterm election year, there is nothing more satisfying to me than harassing political candidates. I spend a lot of my free time and work breaks calling and e-mailing campaigns, trying to get them to go on record with their ‘official stance’ on marijuana policy. Yesterday I received a response that was so ridiculous, [...]