by Radley Balko. From the website run by investigative journalist Ben Swann: On March 24, cannabis oil activist Shona Banda‘s
life was flipped upside-down after her son was taken from her by the
State of Kansas. The ordeal started when police and counselors at her
11-year-old son’s school conducted a drug education class. Her son, who
had previously ... MORE
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Showing posts with label medical marijuana. Show all posts
Being A Good Mom Puts Her At Odds With Her Government
by John Pendygraft. Mom of epileptic son caught in Charlotte's Web medical marijuana bureaucracy. Just as 13-year-old Branden Petro flops into the passenger seat of
his mom's car, his eyes roll back. His face twitches uncontrollably. He
curls into a fetal position. It is his third seizure on a particularly bad day. His mother, Renee
Petro, 36, jumps ... MORE
How Weed Will Eventually Become Legal In The U.S.
by Josh Voorhees. A trio of high-profile senators this week unveiled a package of drug reforms
that would effectively end the federal war on medical marijuana once
and for all. The bill, from Republican Rand Paul and Democrats Cory
Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand, wouldn’t legalize medical weed across the
country, but it would remove ... MORE
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DEA Warns Of Stoned Rabbits If Utah Approves Medical Pot
The new face of marijuana addiction. Utah is considering a bill
that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be
treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state's
wildlife may "cultivate a taste" for the plant, lose their fear of
humans, and basically be high all the time. That's according to testimony ... MORE
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Congressman Blasts San Francisco Medical Pot Prosecutions
by David Downs. Calling out the feds. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher blasted San Francisco’s local U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag Sunday, saying she was “breaking the law” in her attempts to seize major Bay Area dispensaries Harborside Health Center and Berkeley Patients Group. The libertarian-leaning Republican from Huntington Beach has ... MORE
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Bill Bennett's Confusing Defense of Pot Prohibition
by Jacob Sullum. An old statist looks to defend the status quo. “With marijuana,” declare William J. Bennett and Robert A. White in Going to Pot,
their new prohibitionist screed, “we have inexplicably suspended all
the normal rules of reasoning and knowledge.” You can’t say they didn’t
warn us. The challenge for Bennett, a former drug czar and ... MORE
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Jacob Sullum: Jurors Can't Know Pot Growers Are Patients
Federal prosecutors determined to hide the truth. Imagine you are a juror in the federal trial of five people charged with growing and distributing marijuana in northeastern Washington. The prosecution cannot present any direct evidence that the defendants sold marijuana to anyone, and the defendants say they were growing all 74 plants ... MORE
Kim Bellware: Despite Medical Marijuana Having Been Legal In Illinois For Over A Year, No Patients Have Benefited
Government obstruction at its best. Medical marijuana has been legal in Illinois for more than 365 days,
but the number of patients that have actually been able to get relief
from the drug remains a big fat zero. While 600 local patients have already been approved
for a medical marijuana card, there's no place to actually buy the
stuff. And ... MORE
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Is Obama the Drug Warrior Becoming Obama the Reformer?
by Jacob Sullum. In a 2011 Reason cover
story, I explained why drug policy reformers had been bitterly
disappointed by President Obama's performance during his first few
years in office. With the notable exception of his support for
shorter crack sentences, which Congress approved almost unanimously
in 2010, Obama had done very ... MORE
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Congress Just Says No To Funding War On Medical Pot
by Ryan Burns. People pulling politicians by the ear again. When the U.S. government loses a war it does so quietly, with an utter dearth of fanfare. True to form, in the latest spending bill to pass the U.S. House of Representatives there appears to be a tiny, inconspicuous white flag signaling the end of the Justice Department's war on medical ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Cannabis and Capitalism - The Horror?
The people's initiatives. Three marijuana legalization initiatives were on the ballot last
week, and all
three won. That's a better outcome than I was expecting. I was
surprised when voters in Colorado and Washington approved
legalization two years ago, and I was surprised again when
voters in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C., ... MORE
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 ... MORE
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Federal 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 ... MORE
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DC, 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 ... MORE
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Why 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. ... MORE
Mark 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 ... MORE
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Costs 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 ... MORE
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