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Bipartisan Lawmakers Introduce ‘Respect State Marijuana Laws Act’

October 12, 2013 at 6:35 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

United States Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), along with a bipartisan coalition of three Republicans (Reps. Rohrabacher, Rep. Justin Amash [R-MI], and Don Young [R-AK]) and three Democrats (Reps. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR], Steve Cohen [D-TN] and Jared Polis [D-CO]) are sponsoring House Bill 1523: the Respect State Marijuana Laws Act. This measure seeks to amend the federal Controlled Substances Act to exempt from federal prosecution individuals and businesses, including marijuana dispensaries and/or retail outlets, who comply with state marijuana laws. “This [...]

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CBD Helps Reverse Booze Brain Damage

September 17, 2013 at 9:03 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A new study published by Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior reports that delivery of the non-psychoactive cannabinoid compound cannabidiol (CBD) through the skin can reduce alcohol-related damage to the brain. The study, which was given the catchy title “Transdermal delivery of cannabidiol attenuates binge alcohol-induced neurodegeneration in a rodent model of an alcohol use disorder,” was conducted at the University of Kentucky’s Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Researchers administered CBD to lab rats in two forms – one as a gel, the other as [...]

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Pot, Drug Possession Dominate New Arrest Statistics

September 16, 2013 at 12:53 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The FBI crime statistics for 2012 are out, and once again, they demonstrate the massive amount of law enforcement resources we devote to preventing people from getting high. And from pot in particular. Of all drug arrests, 82.2 percent were for possession — meaning possession arrests outnumbered distribution arrests by about 4.5 to 1. For pot alone the disparity was even greater — 88 percent of marijuana arrests were for possession. Arrests for pot were actually slightly down from 2011, [...]

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Christie Signs Bill Changing MMJ Law to Help Certain Children

September 13, 2013 at 9:59 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Gov. Chris Christie has signed a law changing details of New Jersey’s medical marijuana program with the aim of getting sick children forms of the drug that could help them. Christie signed the bill Tuesday, a day after his revised version was adopted by the state Assembly. The bill ends a restriction on legal dispensaries that had allowed them to grow only three strains of marijuana. It also allows them to produce pot in an edible form, but only for [...]

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BREAKING: Department of Justice Announcing Marijuana Guidelines for the States Today?

August 29, 2013 at 3:38 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The Department of Justice is expected to announce guidance Thursday on how it will handle disparities between federal and state drug laws nine months after Colorado and Washington state voters approved the legalization of recreational marijuana, sources on Capitol Hill told The Denver Post. Since last year, state officials and lawmakers have begged for guidance from the feds on how to handle new state recreational marijuana laws that are at odds with federal law, which considers possession, cultivation and distribution [...]

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Cancer Gate: News Stories Covering Cannabis Curing Cancer [VIDEO]

August 25, 2013 at 3:20 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

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Groups Organize to Legalize Marijuana in Texas

August 24, 2013 at 2:29 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The debate is reaching an all time high in Lubbock. The Hub City NORML group is wanting to legalize marijuana by weeding out the skeptics. They want the old laws to go up in smoke. For Colt Smith it’s more than a t-shirt, but a belief and message. “We hope to see people using cannabis responsibly, and not have to be in fear of handcuffs,” he said. Smith is Executive Director of Hub City NORML. It is a marijuana rights [...]

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Which State Will be Next to End Marijuana Prohibition?

August 15, 2013 at 5:20 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

As support for marijuana legalization continues to grow, Rob Kampia, the executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, believes that momentum will drive two more states to follow Colorado and Washington in legalizing recreational weed in 2014. In a recent interview with Reason, Kampia made several legal pot predictions. “I think the next state to legalize will be Alaska, through a ballot initiative that we’re running in August of 2014,” Kampia said to Reason. “Through state legislatures, I think the [...]

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Oregon Governor Legalizes Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

August 14, 2013 at 3:46 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Medical Marijuana

Democratic Gov. John Kitzhaber today signed legislation, House Bill 3460, into law establishing regulations for the creation of state-licensed medical cannabis facilities. The law tasks the Oregon Health Authority with crafting rules and regulations over the following nine months to govern the new statewide distribution system. Oregon voters initially approved a statewide initiative in 1998 mandating state lawmakers to allow for physicians to authorize qualified patients to consume and grow cannabis. However, that law did not explicitly provide legal protections [...]

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