Colorado — Medical marijuana advocates scored a big victory after a judge yesterday ruled that the City of Centennial is prohibited from banning medical marijuana dispensaries from operating within its city limits.
The oral ruling by Arapahoe County District Judge Christopher Cross followed a passionate hearing that spanned two days. Experts ...
Archive for December, 2009
Written by greenmachine on December 31st, 2009
Written by greenmachine on December 31st, 2009
Hopes to Compete With Government in Medical Marijuana Business
A licensed B.C. pot grower was in Toronto yesterday trying to take a bite out of Health Canada’s monopoly on medicinal marijuana.
Sam Mellace, 56, formerly of Toronto, is allowed to grow 292 plants, which he does in a Racle Valley, B.C. “industrial-style” ...
Written by greenmachine on December 31st, 2009
Join us for the last show of the 2000’s! It’s our New Year’s Eve Celebration of 2009, the best year ever in marijuana law reform!
TONIGHT ALL ACROSS AMERICA – SHOW BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT EASTERN AND RUNS TO MIDNIGHT PACIFIC
Written by greenmachine on December 31st, 2009
As the director and chief executive officer of Compassionate Cannabis Information Center, I feel compelled to address my community about this business.
It is my sincere wish that the Visalia community and residents throughout the Valley could see that medical marijuana use is not a black and ...
Written by greenmachine on December 31st, 2009
Help Support NORML’s End of Year Drive – Click Here
Dear NORML Supporter:
It is not often that I feel compelled to write to NORML’s membership and supporters regarding the day-to-day operations of America’s leading marijuana lobby group. Then again, in my tenure as Executive Director ...
Written by greenmachine on December 30th, 2009
Centennial, Colo. — Medical marijuana patients have a constitutional right to buy pot, not just use it, according to ruling Wednesday by a judge. Arapahoe County District Court Judge Christopher Cross sided with the CannaMart dispensary, which sued the city of Centennial after it was shut down in October.
Cross ...
Written by greenmachine on December 30th, 2009
Like the dutiful activists in Seattle protesting cannabis laws and supporting the victims of such outside of the local jail for nine straight years of Christmas days, Brazilian cannabis law reform supporters cheer the cultivator’s release from jail, celebrating, not condemning him.
A strong social indicator of governmental laws that do ...
Written by greenmachine on December 30th, 2009
(Courthouse News Service) – Two North Dakota farmers failed to convince the 8th Circuit that cannabis grown for industrial hemp is not technically marijuana and should not be regulated under federal law.
The court in St. Louis upheld dismissal of the farmers’ lawsuit seeking a declaration that the Controlled Substances Act ...
Written by greenmachine on December 30th, 2009
#1 Obama Administration: Don’t Focus On Medical Marijuana Prosecutions
United States Deputy Attorney General David Ogden issued a memorandum to federal prosecutors in October directing them to not “focus federal resources … on individuals whose actions are in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use ...
Written by greenmachine on December 30th, 2009
A B.C. resident has received a Health Canada licence to possess 60 grams of marijuana for daily medical use, allowing him to legally grow as many as 292 marijuana plants.
The licence provides for possibly the largest quantity ever to be legalized in Canada, say lawyers in Vancouver and Toronto who ...
