Medical Marijuana info

MI — Michigan lawmakers should tread very carefully as they move to amend the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act. The voters have made it clear in 2008 they want medical marijuana as a treatment option in this state. The ballot initiative didn’t just squeak by, it was resoundingly approved — especially in ...

A decade after Colorado voters approved medical marijuana, it’s suddenly big business. The quickly growing industry could boost a still-ailing economy, supporters say — but it has raised challenges for local and state leaders as they seek to place limits on it. Amendment 20, approved by Colorado voters in ...

Lobby Group Will Run Vapour Lounge At Event Campbellford — A group of east Northumberland residents will help run Canada’s first medical marijuana expo. Medicinal Awareness ( MA ), a lobby group for medicinal marijuana, will operate the vapour lounge at the ‘Treating Yourself Expo’ at the Metro Toronto ...

Colorado — Walk into the basement showroom of the Colorado Patient Coalition, a marijuana dispensary located in a small medical plaza on the northern outskirts of Denver, and your nostrils fill with the same pungent odor that once stank up your college roommate’s underwear drawer. But the visual cues are ...

Oakland, Calif.  – The campus tour began promptly at 3 p.m.  and was attended by a fairly typical cast of characters.  There was an affable, out-of-work engineer looking to study for a new profession; a long-haired youngster all but quivering with the certainty that he had found his collegiate ...

Talk about chutzpah! The United Nation’s Anti-drug agency, International Narcotic Control Board, recently attacked the Parliament-sanctioned Canadian Medical Cannabis Program, oddly looking right past Prohibition-addled but medical cannabis-friendly America. That’s right. Despite the continued 73-year old federal prohibition against cannabis, with 90 million Americans currently living in 14 states and the ...

Washington State — A grass-roots campaign is under way to legalize marijuana in Washington state. Sensible Washington is the political committee behind Initiative 1068, which seeks to remove criminal penalties involving adult use, possession and cultivation of marijuana. I-1068 needs 241,153 valid voter signatures by the July 2 deadline in order ...

USA — Conventional wisdom dictates that as younger generations slowly replace the old, conservative social traditions are jettisoned. This may be true for issues such as gay marriage, where there are clear divisions among younger and older voters, but when it comes to marijuana reform, the evidence indicates that simplistic ...

Washington, D.C. — Here’s a stern warning to the U.S. states of Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. A United Nations body is displeased with your liberal medical marijuana laws. Very displeased. The U.N. rarely takes issue with the ...

An excellent and thoughtful analysis appears today via Alternet.org. Below is an excerpt. To read the entire story, please visit here. Why Growing Numbers of Baby Boomers and the Elderly Are Smoking Pot More and more of the nation’s 78 million Boomers are discovering they’d rather smoke marijuana than reach for a ...