by Katie Kuntz. A 70% Tax? Voters in Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C., will decide Tuesday whether to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana. But any new pot shops that voters approve may not be able to survive a drug war-era tax code that already threatens many businesses in Colorado and Washington state. Under this tax code the federal ... MORE
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Showing posts with label medical marijuana. Show all posts
IRS Rules Make Federal Government Primary Pot Profiteers
by Katie Kuntz. A 70% Tax? Voters in Oregon, Alaska, and Washington, D.C., will decide Tuesday whether to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana. But any new pot shops that voters approve may not be able to survive a drug war-era tax code that already threatens many businesses in Colorado and Washington state. Under this tax code the federal ... MOREFederal Court: Doctors Testify War On Pot Defies Science
by David Downs. Separating propaganda from science. Three medical experts testified in federal court in California Friday and Monday that modern science renders the war on marijuana unconstitutional. Decades of medical research show the drug is not the danger the government has made it out to be, they told a federal judge. ... MORE
Doctors Go To Court To Fight Government's Marijuana Lies
by David Downs. The U.S. government claims marijuana is a dangerous, addictive drug with no medical benefits. But that claim will be up for debate Monday in California when a federal judge is scheduled to hear testimony from doctors that conclude the opposite. Doctors Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology at Columbia University ... MOREDC, 3 States And A Territory Vote On Marijuana This Year
by German Lopez. People to lead politicians away from drug war. This year, several more states will vote on whether marijuana should be legal for recreational and medical purposes. Given that more Americans favor legalization than ever, these ballot initiatives have a real chance of passing. Here are the statewide initiatives that will appear on ... MOREWhy Illinois Medical Marijuana Patients Still Have No Meds
by Zenon Evans. Good Intentions made a big splash
last year when it opened its doors as the first medical marijuana
clinic in not just Chicago but the entire state of Illinois. The
business launched just days after Gov. Pat Quinn signed the
Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. One
problem:
There was no medical marijuana. ... MOREMark Strauss: How To Reduce Painkiller Overdoses
Just ask states with legalized medical marijuana. As the number of patients who receive opioid prescriptions to treat non-cancer pain has increased in the past decade, so too have the number of overdoses. A new study, however, finds that states that legalized medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010 had 25% fewer annual ... MORECosts Of Overzealous Pot Policing Vary From State To State
A Washington Post editorial. Skyrocketing incarceration rates for nonviolent drug offenders have come to symbolize the futility of the national “war on drugs.” Even the most ardent drug legalization opponents are beginning to view drug use through the lens of public health, rather than criminal justice. This shift in focus is ... MOREMedical Marijuana Research Hits Wall of U.S. Law
by Serge F. Kovaleski. More evidence the government is not us. Nearly four years ago, Dr. Sue Sisley, a psychiatrist at the University of Arizona, sought federal approval to study marijuana’s effectiveness in treating military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. She had no idea how difficult it would be. The proposal, which has the ... MOREJury Nullification Is Interfering With Marijuana Convictions
by Lily Dane. Proactive justice is occurring. Courts around the country are having more
trouble prosecuting marijuana cases because of increasing awareness of a
constitutional doctrine called jury nullification. Under the Bill of Rights, jurors have the power to find a defendant not guilty if they find the law in question is flawed – even if ... MOREWhy Eating A Marijuana Candy Bar Wasted Maureen Dowd
by David DiSalvo. What's more dangerous than dope? Being a dope. New York Times’ columnist Maureen Dowd
recently wrote about her unfortunate experience with a cannabis
edible—a pot-laced candy bar she bought at a legal marijuana dispensary
in Denver. Dowd took a nibble, and when nothing happened she took a few
more. For a while she ... MOREFeds Ignore Both States Rights And Medical Evidence
by Shane Trejo. Raids in legal weed states display contempt for the people's will. Major developments are taking place in the medical marijuana community
that are opening eyes everywhere, much to the chagrin of the feds. A number of testimonials continue to emerge that indicate the tremendous healing power of marijuana rich in CBD, ... MORETen Pot Studies Government Wished It Hadn't Funded
Inconvenient truths for prohibitionists. Number 10. Marijuana use has no effect on mortality: A massive study of California HMO members funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found marijuana use caused no significant increase in mortality. Tobacco use was associated with increased risk of death. ... MOREMedical Marijuana's Dramatic Effect On Pain Relief
by Jan Hefler. What the Surgeon General does not want you to know. Before buying cannabis at South Jersey's only medical-marijuana dispensary, patients must circle one of six animated faces that stare out from a clipboard. The row of smiling, wincing, frowning, and sobbing cartoon faces is being used to rank the degree of pain that ... MORELisa Crivelli: The New Faces Of Marijuana
Nothing short of a miracle treatment for epilepsy. Two years ago, Charlotte Figi was losing a lifelong battle to epilepsy. Her parents were using a hospice program at home because she wasn’t eating, had chronic pneumonia, and couldn’t swallow water. At the age of five, Charlotte was suffering up to 50 seizures a day. Two years ago, ... MOREAP: Arizona County Loses Appeal Over Marijuana Seizure
Court requires sheriff to give back pot. The Supreme Court has refused to overturn Arizona court rulings ordering the Yuma County sheriff to return marijuana that was seized from a woman with a California medical marijuana authorization honored by Arizona. The justices' order was issued without comment Monday in the case of Valerie ... MORE
Crime Stats: Medical Pot Doesn't Lead To Crime
Families Move To Secure Medical Marijuana For Kids
by Lisa Bernard-Kuhn. Moving to Colorado. The Bentons will move as soon as Addyson comes off the waiting list, which they hope will be October – leaving behind the home in Liberty Township, Ohio, that they built less than a year ago and the friends and family who have supported them. "It's so sad to know that Addyson won't be able to see ... MOREMarijuana Research Hampered By Government And Politics
by Ariana Eunjung Cha. Millions of ordinary Americans are now able to walk into a marijuana dispensary and purchase bags of pot on the spot for a variety of medical ailments. But if you’re a researcher like Sue Sisley, a psychiatrist who studies post-traumatic stress disorder, getting access to the drug isn’t nearly so easy. That’s because the ... MOREWhy National Marijuana Legalization Will Happen
by Tom McKay. Graphically illustrated in one chart. More and more, it seems like national marijuana legalization is happening, and happening fast. Marijuana is now legal in Colorado and Washington state, and state and local authorities around the country are rapidly following suit to decriminalize recreational pot or legalize its use for medical ... MORE
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