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California: Marijuana Legalization Initiative Cleared For Signature Gathering

September 28, 2013 at 6:14 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

A new voter initiative which would legalize marijuana in California was cleared on Thursday for signature gathering by Secretary of State Debra Bowen. Supporters of the measure, the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative 2014, now have 150 days — until February 24 — to gather 504,760 signatures in order to qualify for the November 2014 ballot, Bowen said, reports KTVU. The CCHI would legalize the possession, use, cultivation and sale of marijuana and hemp. It would instruct the California Legislature to pass [...]

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More Americans Are Using Marijuana

September 4, 2013 at 8:51 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

As the nation takes a softer stance on marijuana, more Americans are using the drug, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health found. The nationwide survey made public Wednesday found that 7.3% of Americans 12 or older regularly used marijuana in 2012, up from 7% in 2011. Marijuana use has increased steadily over the past five years. In 2007, the survey found that 5.8% of Americans 12 or older used marijuana. The report from the Substance Abuse and Mental [...]

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Medical Marijuana Patients Need Protection NOT Policy Rhetoric

September 4, 2013 at 8:42 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Last Thursday, Deputy Attorney General James Cole issued a long-awaited memo laying out the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) policy on state marijuana laws. At my office at Americans for Safe Access, we were all experiencing a kind of déjà-vu as the emails started flooding in. However, our excitement began to diminish as we read through the details. Flashback As a medical cannabis advocate, I started 2009 with Obama’s “Hope” in my veins. The Obama’s administration made supportive statements from the beginning, including [...]

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Department Of Justice Considering Lifting Bank Ban on MMJ Business

September 2, 2013 at 8:45 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The Department of Justice is “actively considering” how to regulate interactions between banks and marijuana shops that operate within state laws and don’t violate other federal law enforcement priorities, Attorney General Eric Holder told the governors of Washington and Colorado in a joint phone call Thursday, according to a DOJ official. Holder laid out eight priorities that would be the aim of federal marijuana policy in his conversation with the governors, in which he told them his Justice Department would [...]

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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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Feds Threaten More Dispensary Landlords with 40 Years Prison

May 1, 2013 at 4:00 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The U.S. Attorney for Northern California has threatened at least four San Jose area landlords last week with 40 years prison, property forfeiture and asset seizure for renting office space to lawful medical marijuana businesses. Sources in San Jose said the letters from U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag began showing up in mailboxes Friday, April 26. They read: “The office has been advised that there is a marijuana dispensary … operating at the real property located at …, which property you own or [...]

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