Written by Justin Jenkins for The American Cultivator: Bloggin for your Noggin! Enjoying the festivities yet? My smile is almost tearing my face in half! Of course it hurts! But now is not the time to pay attention to pain, I must sally forth and trudge along. I had to go back out and adventure around the venders, people have a chance to vote on their favorites but I’m just going to tell you my guesses. As far as the [...]
A new study says that an estimated 1,500 jobs will be created by Arizona’s new medical marijuana industry. Tim Hogan, a researcher with Arizona State University who wrote the study, said he used figures from Oregon’s established medical marijuana industry to estimate the size of Arizona’s market, reports Julia Shumway of Cronkite News Service. “It’s a pretty simple industry,” Hogan said. “There’s not too much nuance. The main driving mechanism is how many patients.” Hogan’s study, paid for by the Regulated [...]
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Eighteen states (plus the District of Columbia) allow cannabis use for certain medical conditions. Despite that, scientists have a harder time doing research on the potential medical benefits of marijuana than they do on “harder” drugs like ecstasy or magic mushrooms. The public may think of pot use as no big deal, but federal laws make it difficult for researchers to obtain legal supplies. Clinical researchers can get permission from the DEA to grow or create restricted compounds like LSD, MDMA or [...]
Another marijuana reform bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives, this one by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn). The “National Commission on Federal Marijuana Policy Act” would create a study group much like the Shafer Commission, which Congress created in the early 1970s, and then ignored, after committee members recommended the decriminalization of marijuana. According to his website, the commission Cohen is proposing would study the following issues: How federal laws should be reconciled with state marijuana laws; The cost of marijuana prohibition and [...]
Ahead of Vox‘s favorite day to enjoy nature, D.C. gives us another reason to be glad Georgetown is located in such a liberal city. A new poll released today by the Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Policy Project found that 63 percent of residents supported enacting Colorado-esquelegalization schemes here in the District. A further 78 percent of residents said that they would like to expand D.C.’s medical marijuana law so that doctors could prescribe cannabis to patients for any condition whatsoever. (The current law hasquite restrictive [...]
Alaska voters likely will get a chance next year to make their state the third in the country to approve the recreational use of marijuana by adults 21 and older. Pot backers Tuesday took the first step toward getting the measure on the August 2014 primary ballot, presenting draft language and 100 signatures to the Alaska lieutenant governor’s office. The measure would tax and regulate marijuana sales and allow Alaskans to cultivate marijuana for personal use. If state officials decide [...]
After 17 years of legal battles and uncertainty over legalized medical marijuana, some new clarity will be brought to the issue on May 21, when Los Angeles city voters will be asked to choose among three different measures regulating the growing industry. Propositions D, E and F offer a range of new requirements for medical marijuana dispensaries, including taxes, caps on the number that can open and limits on their locations. Prop. D was crafted by the Los Angeles City [...]
