Medical marijuana has been legal since Oregon voters approved it in 1998, but the dispensaries which distribute cannabis to patients have evolved in a legal gray area. Full Text of HB 3460: http://www.leg.state.or.us/13reg/meas…
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May 202013
Moms for Marijuana’s main focus is to bring education and awareness and to create honest discussion in our communities about the cannabis plant. In doing so, we are fighting decades of lies, fear and propaganda, propagated by our government and big industries that don’t care about anything other than their huge profits. Today we need your help in stopping some of this “Reefer Madness” from affecting our families. Mayor Tammy de Weerd of Meridian Idaho has signed a $625,000 Executive Order to establish the Mayor’s Anti-Drug Coalition (MADC), which received its [Continue Reading]
May 192013
There is a big vote this Tuesday in Los Angeles, California that will largely determine the future for medical marijuana dispensaries in the area. Below is a message that I received from my friends in Los Angeles: On May 21 join Angelenos for Safe Access - a coalition of business, collectives, doctors and patients – in voting Yes on F and No on D. Proposition D is a fraud that doesn’t work. Proposition D doesn’t protect minors, patients or the public. Ordinance F is the solution to create sustainable and healthy rules [Continue Reading]
May 182013
After “only” 10 years of lobbying in Springfield, MPP has finally succeeded at persuading the Illinois Legislature to legalize medical marijuana. The Senate approved the measure 35-21 Friday, and it received approval from the House of Representatives by a vote of 61-57 on April 17. If Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signs the bill, Illinois will become the 19th or 20th state to legalize medical marijuana. (New Hampshire is also on the verge of passing MPP’s medical marijuana legislation, so it’s a race to see which state will be first!) If the Illinois bill becomes [Continue Reading]
May 182013
The case of Bob Redden and Torrey Clark ends in victory for the embattled patients; 7 year felonies reduced to non-reporting misdemeanors in Michigan’s toughest venue OAKLAND COUNTY- They were the first to be charged under Michigan’s new medical marijuana law, and their case has the distinction of being the longest-running medical marijuana case in the state, but now it’s over. Attorneys Michael Komorn and David Rudoi announced that Bob Redden and Torey Clark have agreed to plead guilty to minor misdemeanors and end the case that has hounded them [Continue Reading]
May 182013
By Don Duncan, California Director, Americans for Safe Access The California Supreme Court ruled that cities and counties can ban storefront medical cannabis patients’ cooperatives and collectives, even though they are legal under state law. That ruling is disappointing, but not the end of the line for activists working to overcome barriers to safe and dignified access to medicine in their communities. In their unanimous ruling, the Justices specifically said that “nothing prevents future efforts by the Legislature, or by the People, to adopt a different approach.” Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is [Continue Reading]
May 182013
The Israel Government has recently introduced new regulations on the medical marijuana program in the country, including limitations on what patients and conditions qualify for treatment. Now, doctors and patients are protesting the new restrictions. One of their methods; a hunger strike outside the home of Health Minister Yael German. The new list of qualifying conditions is short, and many illnesses, such as Parkinson’s disease, glaucoma and psychiatric disorders are left off. In addition to the hunger strike, Dr. Ilya Reznick of the Reut Hospital in Tel Aviv (Forum Chairman), Dr. Jonathan [Continue Reading]
May 172013
By Clarence Walker Dispensaries providing marijuana to doctor-approved patients operate in a number of states, but they are under assault by the federal government. SWAT-style raids by the DEA and finger-wagging press conferences by grim-faced federal prosecutors may garner greater attention, but the assault on medical marijuana providers extends to other branches of the government as well, and moves by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to eliminate dispensaries’ ability to take standard business deduction are another very painful arrow in the federal quiver. The IRS employs Section 280E, a 1982 [Continue Reading]
May 172013
According the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll, 78% of Kentuckians support the legalization of medical marijuana, and 25% say they would be okay with regulating recreational use as well. Only 38% oppose any form of legalization. Proponents were split when it came to legislative action. Almost half thought the decision should be left up to voters, 23% thought state legislators should change the law, and another 23% believed ending prohibition was the job of the federal government. Citizens of Kentucky will be happy to know that State Senator Perry Clark (D-Louisville) has been tireless [Continue Reading]
May 172013
By Doug Fine In September, 2011, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms banned state law-abiding medical cannabis patients from owning firearms. A bureaucratic decider simply swiped away hundreds of thousands of Americans’ Second Amendment rights by way of an added item on a pre-sale questionnaire. Using an ancient herb as recommended by your doctor, one that any law enforcer will tell you makes people less aggressive? Sorry. Whacked on Oxycontin? Fire away. My friend Carl, a Vietnam veteran, concealed handgun permit holder, political conservative of the John Wayne [Continue Reading]
