NORML Match Grant: Extended Two Days To Lament Marijuana Prohibition’s Founding
Dear NORML members and supporters, Over the last month $26,650 has been raised by NORML members and supporters in a $100,000 donor match put forward by new NORML board members Rick Steves and Justin Hartfield. Thank you to the hundreds of donors who’ve contributed thus far—and employing football season jargon, I’m employing a national director ‘audible‘ to extend the match grant two…
Everything is Bigger in Texas Including Support for Marijuana Legalization
They say things are bigger in Texas and, according to new survey data just released by Public Policy Polling, that includes support for marijuana law reform. PPP’s polling found that 58{2b4a1a3f3bbc9c5a43771f34362679a3afcf9df24c0d9f4fe2fa80a69d802033} of Texans support regulating marijuana like alcohol and only 38{2b4a1a3f3bbc9c5a43771f34362679a3afcf9df24c0d9f4fe2fa80a69d802033} were opposed. This change in policy was supported by 59{2b4a1a3f3bbc9c5a43771f34362679a3afcf9df24c0d9f4fe2fa80a69d802033} of women, 70{2b4a1a3f3bbc9c5a43771f34362679a3afcf9df24c0d9f4fe2fa80a69d802033} of Democrats, 57{2b4a1a3f3bbc9c5a43771f34362679a3afcf9df24c0d9f4fe2fa80a69d802033} of Independents, a majority of all racial demographics, and a majority of all age demographics. The survey also reported that 58{2b4a1a3f3bbc9c5a43771f34362679a3afcf9df24c0d9f4fe2fa80a69d802033} of Texans supported…
International Marijuana Laws: Three Takes In Three Countries
Three countries, one week and three different public policy views about cannabis laws: Switzerland — After years of debate, and with a number of cantons having already done so, the entire nation of Switzerland began a cannabis possession decriminalization policy for adults. This is not unlike similar penalties in fifteen states in America and likely a prelude to eventual legalization in the infamously ‘neutral’ country (certainly more than most countries as the Swiss …
FusionPharm Expands Production and Sales Facility
DENVER, Colo. — FusionPharm, Inc, FSPM, the Denver based manufacturer of the PharmPods™ cultivation system today announced that it has secured a new manufacturing and sales center facility in the Denver area. The new facility, which will house executive offices, a sales center complete with demo containers and approximately 6,000 square feet of manufacturing, will allow the company to grow with it’s ever expanding marketplace.
Medical Marijuana Inc.’s HempMedsPX Leading the Industry With Hemp-Based Cannabidiol (CBD) Products
SAN DIEGO, Calif.— Medical Marijuana Inc. (OTC Pink:MJNA) is pleased to inform shareholders and the general public that HempMedsPX—a corporate portfolio company of Medical Marijuana Inc. and the exclusive master distributor and contracted marketing company for CannaVest Corp. and Medical Marijuana Inc.— entered the “High CBD (cannabidiol) Award”-winning product at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup in Seattle, Washington. Submitted by HempMedsPX on behalf of PhytoSPHERE Systems, the prototype product
Top 50 Most Influential Marijuana Users Named By the Nation’s Largest Marijuana Policy Organization
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A list of the “Top 50 Most Influential Marijuana Users” in the United States was released Wednesday by the nation’s largest marijuana policy organization.
WA, CO Governors Seek Bank Access for Marijuana Industry
The governors of both Washington and Colorado sent a letter yesterday to federal bank regulators asking for “inter-agency guidance” that would give state-licensed marijuana businesses access to banks.
Washington State Board Adopts Rules For Marijuana Industry
It’s official. The state of Washington has formally adopted new rules for recreational marijuana — how and where it can be grown, sold and distributed. The state Liquor Control Board predicts a 30-day licensing window for growers and sellers to open on Nov. 18.
ASA Executive Director to be Honored at International Drug Policy Reform Conference
Steph Sherer, Founder and Executive Director of Americans for Safe Access will be awarded the Robert C. Randall Award for achievement in the field of Citizen Action, October 26, at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver. The Robert C. Randall Award honors citizens who make a democracy work in the difficult area of drug law and policy reform. “I’m truly grateful to be receiving the Robert C. Randall Award,”said ASA Executive Director Steph Sherer. “I started ASA in 2002 as a campaign response to Asa Hutchinson and now ASA …
DOJ Abandons Some But Not All Medical Marijuana Forfeiture Cases in California
In an unexpected but laudable move, the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California announced last week that it was dropping pending forfeiture lawsuits against several landlords of medical marijuana dispensaries. For months, the Obama Administration, and U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. in particular, had pursued the property of numerous landlords in southern California. Software engineer Tony Jalali of Anaheim was…
Update on SocalPure Raid
Below is an update from SoCal Pure a legal, state sanctioned medical cannabis collective raided last week in San Diego County. On October 9, SocalPURE was raided. Keep in mind that this was a legal medical marijuana collective operating under the law of the State of California. At approximately 9:40 …
Urgent: POW Jerry Duval is Going Blind from Neglect
Medical Cannabis patient Jerry Duval is serving a 10-year sentence for cultivating cannabis under Michigan’s medical cannabis laws. While we all know 10 years is a ridiculous sentence for a medical cannabis patient, unnecessarily losing his eyesight because of neglect is inhumane. When Jerry was a young boy he was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. This later forced him to undergo…
Arizona Judge Prevents Local Governments from Banning Dispensaries; If Only Californians Were As Fortunate
An Arizona judge overturned a Maricopa County ordinance Monday, claiming that local governments cannot adopt a prohibition on medical marijuana dispensaries as an “attempt to prevent implementation of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act.” In his ruling, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Gordon held that a county “may not …
“The Clear” By Clear Concentrates
“The Clear” is a line of high purity concentrates extracted using a “solvent-free” method developed by the scientists at Clear Concentrates. Though it was once only available to patients at Harborside Health Center in Oakland, CA, this “solvent-free” concentrate is now accessible at a number of Southern California dispensaries including Varieties For Life and Aardvarks in LA. We spoke to a representative – we’ll call him Lens for the sake of anonymity – from Clear Concentrates who explained to us that their concentrate is solvent-…
Study: Cannabis May Treat Aggressive Forms Of Breast Cancer
Medical Marijuana May Benefit Breast Cancer Patients Contrary to popular belief, breast cancer is not one disease – it is an umbrella term used for many different diseases, according to HER2 Support Group. HER2-positive breast cancer is a particularly aggressive type that forms when there is an over-expression of the HER2 gene. Not only does HER2-positive breast cancer grow rapidly, but it is often associated with …
Mystery Marijuana Plane Lands in Houston
Monday, November 20, at the Executive Airport in Houston, Texas, a small aircraft failed to answer calls from the control tower, leaving them in the fog… After landing with the wind behind it, the small twin-engine plane skidded off the track ending up with its nose in the grass. The plane that landed full of marijuana …
Cannabis in California: A local and federal divide
The recent history of cannabis in California demonstrates a split between state and federal law that is rapidly widening. The first U.S. state to have, in 1913, prohibited the use of the devil’s herb imported by Mexican immigrants that was “marijuana”, California was also the first to legalize the medicinal use of cannabis in 1996. 15 years of legal ambiguity on medicinal marijuana Dancers prepare…
Switzerland and Copenhagen – beyond cannabis tolerance (part two)
Switzerland and Denmark are considering measures which could lead to the return of decriminalised cannabis in 2012. In both cases, the main reason for the proposed change is to reduce the harm caused by pushing cannabis onto the black market. The simple, inarguable fact is that cannabis will continue to be consumed for its medicinal and recreational properties, so allowing otherwise law-abiding people to grow or purchase it legally…
Switzerland and Copenhagen – beyond cannabis tolerance (part one)
The policy of ‘soft drug tolerance’ in the Netherlands is probably the most well-known example of a country attempting to regulate the use and sale of cannabis. Recognising that marijuana and hashish consumption cause very little social or personal harm, Holland’s laws were changed to differentiate relatively benign soft drugs from genuinely harmful hard drugs. Low rate of cannabis consumption Not only did this free citizens from unreasonable prosecution, the law change had the positive effect of separating the cannabis market from the hard drug black market, so…
Over medicated America – a few figures to understand why cannabis is still illegal
Here’s a chart that puts into simple words and figures a system that shows no benefits: Created by: Medical Billing and Coding Online What this work prove is that profit is more important to the people in charge of the health system than the health of the people that generate their profits. Just over a week ago the FDA pushed to approve a …