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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 [...]
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 [...]
Recently in my quest of fighting the good fight I’ve made friends with a group on face book known as “Marijuana prohibition is unconstitutional” which eventually got me a digital copy of a book called Satan’s Smoke by Hoam Rogh which has proven to be quite the interesting read. Its purely fictional but might as [...]
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 [...]
If we want marijuana laws to change, we have to start forcing politicians to make their official stance towards both medical and non marijuana law reform. With medical marijuana laws either already passed or being considered in over half the states in the U.S., this issue is no longer one that can be ignored. Politicians [...]
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 [...]
Thanks again to Jodie Emery for giving me permission to post this, and to all you TWB readers – WRITE MARC EMERY A LETTER! I know I will. Here is Marc’s post: At 6:00pm on Thursday, June 24th, I was finally released from solitary confinement after three weeks of isolation. The Disciplinary Hearing Officer was [...]
Some of my best stoner memories came when I was attending college. Getting really high after a test and pigging out on teriyaki chicken and rice near campus; good times indeed. I was talking with an old college friend today, and we were debating which is the most marijuana friendly college in America. I did [...]
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, [...]