Items tagged with medical cannabis
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| Marijuana only for the sick? A farce, some Angelenos say [06.10.2012] | One year after federal law enforcement officials began cracking down on California’s medical marijuana industry with a series of high-profile arrests ... |
| Medical marijuana advocates hope lawsuit relaxes US drugs policy [06.10.2012] | Advocates for medical marijuana will go before the US court of appeal as part of a historic lawsuit that they hope will challenge the federal governme ... |
| Pot dispensaries clouding medical marijuana's image [05.10.2012] | Seattle's first-ever Medical Cannabis Cup — part gourmet weed contest, part trade show, part smoke-in — showcased the entrepreneurial drive and explo ... |
| Marijuana: A failure to regulate, but not by dispensaries [02.10.2012] | The Times' Sept. 27 editorial, "In a haze on pot policy," says, "In the face of this chaos, the federal crackdown is, to some, good news -- finally, ... |
| L.A. repeals its ban on pot stores [01.10.2012] | After struggling for years to regulate storefront pot shops, the Los Angeles City Council retreated Tuesday, voting to repeal the carefully crafted b ... |
| In a haze on pot policy [26.09.2012] | Late last year, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. affirmed the Obama administration's long-standing policy of taking a hands-off approach to states ... |
| U.S. raids L.A. marijuana shops [26.09.2012] | Federal officials brought their war on medical marijuana dispensaries to Los Angeles, raiding several shops and issuing warning letters to dozens mor ... |
| Bid to overturn L.A. pot shop ban qualifies for ballot [18.09.2012] | Activists seeking to strike down a ban on medical marijuana outlets in Los Angeles saw their challenge qualify for the ballot, dealing a setback to t ... |
| Medical marijuana backers seek inroads in South [02.09.2012] | This fall, Arkansas will be the first Southern state to ask voters whether to legalize medical uses for pot, a move that offers supporters a rare cha ... |
| Bid to repeal L.A.'s ban on pot shops may be headed for ballot [29.08.2012] | A referendum to repeal a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles appears to be headed for the ballot, with pot shop supporters saying th ... |
| Los Angeles sued over crackdown on medical marijuana shops [17.08.2012] | A medical marijuana trade group and 11 patients sued the city of Los Angeles, seeking to block enforcement of an ordinance that would shut down most ... |
| L.A.'s medical marijuana mess [25.07.2012] | The Los Angeles City Council is plainly out of its depth when it comes to regulating medical marijuana. This was already clear after years of fumblin ... |
| L.A. City Council bans medical marijuana dispensaries [24.07.2012] | In what could be a turning point in the city's seemingly unending battle to regulate the distribution of medical marijuana, the Los Angeles City Coun ... |
| Oakland protests U.S. attorney's crackdown on large medical marijuana dispensary [13.07.2012] | A day after federal prosecutors moved to shutter the country's largest medical marijuana dispensary, city leaders and other officials came to the def ... |
| U.S. cracks down on "world's largest" medical marijuana dispensary [10.07.2012] | Federal prosecutors have filed civil forfeiture actions against an Oakland medical marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the world's largest, as ... |
| Medical marijuana growers uninspected by Health Canada [03.07.2012] | More than 15,000 people are licensed to grow medical marijuana in Canada, but Health Canada has no record of staff ever inspecting any of the growers ... |
| Some Southern California 'nonprofit' pot shops make big money [16.06.2012] | Many medical marijuana dispensaries have been making huge sums of money even as they claim to be nonprofit, according to court and law enforcement re ... |
| U.S. targets landlords in fight against medical pot [13.06.2012] | The authorities are pressuring landlords to shut down the shops or face possible loss of the real estate through the unconventional and low-key use o ... |
| 10 Reasons to Revisit Marijuana Policy Now [12.06.2012] | For the first time ever, a solid majority of Americans supports legalizing marijuana for recreational use: 56%, according to the most recent Rasmusse ... |
| Ottawa drags out medical pot reform [11.06.2012] | The federal government's plan to revamp Canada's medical marijuana program and address court-raised constitutional concerns seems half-baked. The pro ... |
| Feds attack California's medical marijuana trade-again [07.06.2012] | Federal authorities opened the latest front in their war on California's massive medical marijuana industry this week, filing property forfeiture law ... |
| Most California voters don't support legalizing pot, poll finds [30.05.2012] | In California, cradle of the marijuana movement, a new poll has found a majority of voters do not support legalization, even as they overwhelmingly b ... |
| Pot shop ban advances in L.A. City Council [29.05.2012] | A City Council committee moved forward with a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries Tuesday, approving a recommendation to outlaw storefront pot shop ... |
| Pot groups hope Oregon race sends feds a message [17.05.2012] | Medical marijuana advocates have a message for Democratic leaders and federal prosecutors with an eye on political office: Don't mess with pot. Pushi ... |
| Supporter of Oregon medical pot law wins attorney general race [16.05.2012] | In a primary election race for Oregon's top law enforcement post, the candidate who pledged to protect medical marijuana patients scored a decisive v ... |
| A Judge’s Plea for Pot [15.05.2012] | The New York State Legislature is now debating a bill to recognize marijuana as an effective and legitimate medicinal substance and establish a lawfu ... |
| The Israeli pharmacologist who kick-started marijuana research [13.05.2012] | Half a century ago, Hebrew University Prof. Raphael Mechoulam isolated and synthesized THC, the main psychoactive compound in the cannabis plant. By ... |
| Connecticut aims to avoid states' medical marijuana woes [04.05.2012] | Connecticut lawmakers' approval of the use of medical marijuana includes strict regulations for the cultivation and distribution in an attempt to avo ... |
| What Is President Obama’s Problem With Medical Marijuana? [02.05.2012] | For a brief moment in 2009, medical marijuana advocates exhaled. A new President had taken office promising to call off the federal prosecutors in st ... |
| California's "Princeton of Pot" reopens in bare-bones state [17.04.2012] | A California school known as the "Princeton of Pot" has reopened after a federal raid, but with a bare-bones staff of volunteers to teach the art of ... |
| Rally protests federal raid on Oakland pot trade school [04.04.2012] | Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at City Hall to demand federal respect for state and local marijuana laws, a day after federal agents raided the s ... |
| Agents in Oakland raid leader of medical marijuana movement [02.04.2012] | Federal agents struck at the heart of California's medical marijuana movement, raiding the nation's first pot trade school and a popular dispensary, ... |
| Israeli medicine goes to pot [28.03.2012] | Israel’s inroads into legalizing cannabis for pain relief and managing terminal illness rest on the seminal research of Prof. Raphael Mechoulam of th ... |
| How many pot patients Calif. has is anyone's guess [23.03.2012] | The reality is that no one knows how many people are legally using marijuana in California because the state — with hundreds of pot stores and clinic ... |
| Attorney tells more Colorado medical pot centers to close [22.03.2012] | Colorado's top federal prosecutor has ordered 25 medical marijuana shops located near schools to close in an escalating pot clampdown, as the state g ... |
| Medical marijuana distributors subject to federal prosecution despite state law [13.02.2012] | A Montana medical marijuana law does not shield cannabis dispensers from federal prosecution, a district court has ruled. The ruling will decrease th ... |
| Testing pot in a legal vacuum [12.02.2012] | Only some top-end dispensaries test their products, and even they can't be sure the results are reliable. Because all marijuana possession is illegal ... |
| California pot industry's next move: Ballot initiative for state regulation [06.02.2012] | A proposed ballot initiative aimed for the November elections begs a key question looming over California's medical marijuana industry: Can stricter ... |
| MPs complete legislation aimed at legalizing cannabis for medical purposes [03.02.2012] | A group of Czech MPs from all of the parties in the Chamber of Deputies has completed legislation which could legalise the use of cannabis in the Cze ... |
| Marijuana Mouth Spray: Will It Be Abused? [31.01.2012] | The medical marijuana drug Sativex, which could be approved in the United States in the coming years as a treatment for pain relief, has little poten ... |
| Marijuana-based prescription drug looks toward FDA's approval [22.01.2012] | A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in mari ... |
| Many US communities are blocking medical marijuana [09.01.2012] | In California, with the nation's most permissive medical marijuana laws, 185 cities and counties have banned pot dispensaries entirely. In New Jersey ... |
| Prescribing Cannabis for Harm Reduction [05.01.2012] | Neuropathic pain affects between 5% and 10% of the US population and can be refractory to treatment. Opioids may be recommended as a second-line phar ... |
| States say it's time to rethink medical marijuana [01.01.2012] | Medical marijuana advocates are hoping state governments can succeed where their efforts have failed by asking federal authorities to reclassify pot ... |
| Marijuana legalization initiative signatures in [29.12.2011] | Backers of an effort to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana use in Washington state submitted more than 340,000 signatures Thursday to try t ... |
| Colorado seeks new pot classification [28.12.2011] | Colorado has become the third state to ask the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana in a way that allows doctors to prescribe ... |
| Ten Years of Medical Marijuana in Canada [12.12.2011] | In Canada, possession of medical marijuana is controlled under the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations, which came into effect in the summer of 2001 ... |
| Medical marijuana debate rages among researchers, doctors [11.12.2011] | Research into medicinal marijuana is undergoing a surge of interest, with more evidence emerging not only of its ability to ease human suffering, but ... |
| Equal access to medical marijuana eludes Canadians [09.12.2011] | Data obtained by the Ottawa Citizen through the Access to Information Act put a face to the typical medical marijuana patient for the first time, 10 ... |
| Legal changes cause questions for medical marijuana users [09.12.2011] | The Tories omnibus crime legislation casts a shadow on the future of the medical marijuana program. The toughening of drug trafficking laws means tha ... |
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