Showing posts with label medical marijuana. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical marijuana. Show all posts
High Hopes: The Marijuana Movement's 2014 Playbook
by Miranda Green. After years in the political wilderness, marijuana lobbyists find themselves in a strange position as 2014 approaches: Suddenly their power and support are growing, lawmakers are courting them, and the prospects look brighter to build on major progress the movement made in 2012. Last year, voters in Colorado and ... MOREBiden Recruited To Hand Out Free Joints
by Radley Balko. The Denver Westword reports
that a pro-pot group fighting a new proposal to impose a 30 percent tax
on the drug -- which is now legal under Colorado law -- wants Joe
Biden's help. Earlier this month, a group opposed to Proposition AA, the measure to
establish tax rates on recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, staged a
rally at Civic ... MOREThe Republican Argument For Legalizing Marijuana
by Ryan Schuette. “Children are growing up with a total lack of respect for the
Constitution and for the law," Pauline Sabin, the first woman to sit on
the Republican National Committee, said in regard to prohibition in
1932. "The young see the law broken at home and upon the street," she
added. "Can we expect them to be lawful?” ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Tolerating Pot With A Frown
Why the feds had to let legalization happen. Last month, 296 days after voters in Colorado and Washington
decided to legalize marijuana, the U.S. Justice Department responded
with a memo that leans toward accommodation rather than
confrontation. Last week, testifying before the Senate Judiciary
Committee, the author ... MOREThousands Cited For Possessing Pot On Federal Land
The victims of Obama's low priority. Karen Strand didn't think she'd get in trouble for having a small container of medical marijuana when she went hiking in Olympic National Park this summer. President Barack Obama, she remembered, had said the federal government had "bigger fish to fry" than people who follow state marijuana laws, ... MORESix Ways The Drug War Intrudes On Your Life
Whether you use illegal substances or not. Many Americans who do not use illegal "drugs" assume exemption from drug war policies. But regardless of how much marijuana you do or don't smoke, the U.S. war on drugs affects nearly everyone. While some prohibition tactics are more obvious than others, the drug war has slyly pushed its way into ... MOREFeds Patented Medical Marijuana -- While Fighting It
They acknowledged medical benefits a decade ago. On Oct. 7, 2003, the US government issued Patent No. 6,630,507. Actor Michael J. Fox and many millions of other Americans — my dear late wife, Tricia, included — could have gotten very excited about this development back then. But it was, apparently, not the sort of thing Washington ... MOREPete Yost: Congress Looks At Justice's Marijuana Decision
A big government vs individual liberty tug-of-war. The Obama administration is facing criticism over its attempt to
straddle the federal law that makes marijuana illegal and state laws
that permit recreational use of the drug. In the first congressional hearing since the administration announced a
new, permissive enforcement ... MOREThe Reasons To Doubt The Feds Respect For Pot Laws
by Jacob Sullum. Last week, nearly 10 months after voters in Colorado and Washington decided to legalize marijuana, the U.S. Justice Department finally responded. Its announcement, which took the form of a memo to U.S. attorneys from Deputy Attorney General James Cole, promised neither acceptance nor confrontation, saying only ... MOREState Takes Children Because Vet Dad Used Medical Pot
California took couple's children away for a year. Citing the discovered marijuana as a ‘hazard’ in their official report, the agents removed the couple's two young boys - Cameran, then aged four, and Bailey, aged two - and placed them in an emergency shelter for ‘abused, abandoned, and neglected children’ in San Diego. Even though ... MOREMedical Marijuana Stops Severe Seizures In Children
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| Charlotte Figi, patient |
View the following links: A case documented by CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Modesto, California father gives testimonial. 5-year-old boy given Arizona marijuana card, in attempt to fight severe seizures. British researches say cannabis may be treatment for epilepsy. Woman claims seizures stopped after medical marijuana.
Paul Armentano: Marijuana Legalization Is Inevitable
And it is time for the Feds to admit it. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy is demanding Congressional hearings in September to address the growing divide between state and federal marijuana laws. With twenty states now having legalized the medical use of cannabis — and two additional states having legalized non-medical marijuana ... MORE
Feds Seize Property Of Landlord Following California Law
Federal policing for profit runs roughshod over rights. In a city that hosts a pot expo, Tony Jalali thought renting space to medical marijuana outlets was perfectly legal. Guess again. Marijuana policy, like immigration policy, is something the country just can't seem to get right. For the latest evidence of how confusing pot laws can be, just ... MOREJohn Stossel: Beware The Warrior Cop
To serve and protect who? We need police to catch murderers, thieves and con men, and so we give them special power — the power to use force on others. Sadly, today's police use that power to invade people's homes over accusations of trivial, nonviolent offenses — and often do it with tanks, battering rams and armor you'd expect ... MORE
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