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Senator Ted Cruz Attacks Obama for not Locking Up Marijuana Users in Colorado

January 13, 2014 at 6:06 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Friday criticized President Barack Obama for not arresting people in Colorado who violated federal law by using marijuana. “A whole lot of folks now are talking about legalizing pot. The brownies you had this morning, provided by the state of Colorado,” he jokingly said during his keynote speech at Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Policy Orientation. “And you can make arguments on that issue,” Cruz continued. “You can make reasonable arguments on that issue. The president [...]

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France Authorizes First Medical Marijuana Treatment

January 12, 2014 at 9:55 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Pressure to remove laws criminalizing even the use of marijuana for medicinal uses grew Thursday as France approved its first use, a medication used to help MS sufferers. The commissioner of the National Football League in the U.S. left the door open for players to use medical marijuana, where it is legal, according to ESPN and CBS. France 24 said the health ministry authorized the use of Sativex, a cannabinoid mouth spray, to treat people suffering from multiple sclerosis. The Sativex [...]

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Alaska Could Become Third State to Fully Legalize Pot

January 10, 2014 at 7:45 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Alaskans may get the chance to make their state the third to fully legalize marijuana this year. Backers of a plan to tax and regulate marijuana said today they’ve gathered 45,000 signatures to get the issue on the state’s primary ballot in August. They turned them over to the state’s lieutenant governor, as required under state law. The signatures must now be certified by state officials. If approved, Alaska would join Colorado and Washington state as the only states to [...]

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Oregon Begins Allowing Medical Marijuana for PTSD

January 8, 2014 at 5:14 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Some Oregon lawmakers had said they feared that allowing medical marijuana cardholders to use pot for post-traumatic stress disorder would lead to widespread abuse, but the initial signup doesn’t bear that out. The law went into effect Jan. 1, and applicants had 90 days before that to apply. Fewer than 100 have, the Salem Statesman Journal (http://stjr.nl/19b0k6R) reported. “We can’t provide an exact number because it’s low enough to where we risk identifying people,” said Jonathan Modie, spokesman for the [...]

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Legalizing Marijuana Does Not Mean the U.S. Would Lose Ground to China

January 6, 2014 at 6:20 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The legalization of marijuana, effective New Year’s Day in Colorado and Washington, has divided American journalists, who seemed to spend much of the last three days re-litigating the subject. On Thursday, The New York Times‘ David Brooks wrote a column disclosing his youthful use of the drug and why, as a result, he opposes legalizing marijuana, while the very same day Ruth Marcus wrote practically the same piece in The Washington Post. These two articles then triggered a pushback from writers like Slate’s Dave Weigel and Reason’sMatt Welch, who argued that [...]

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Big Marijuana: Is It The Future?

January 3, 2014 at 8:18 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

Love it or loathe it, marijuana as medicine is not a trend likely to disappear soon. Its use – and sale – is not going unnoticed by the legitimate business world. Michigan-based nutritional supplement company, Creative Edge Nutrition, is on course to becoming the first U.S. company to be allowed to distribute medicinal marijuana in Canada, says CEO Bill Chaaban. In November the company was notified by Canada’s federal health department, Health Canada, that it has been approved to grow, [...]

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January Medical Marijuana Update

January 2, 2014 at 9:57 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

The dispensary and cultivation wars continue in California, dispensaries are delayed in Nevada, a bill moves in New Jersey, and more. Let’s get to it: California On December 15, the Palm Springs city council set the dispensary tax at 10%. That’s for legal dispensaries. Unapproved dispensaries will have to pay 15%. The council also approved issuance of a fourth dispensary license for the city. Also on December 15, the Indio city council revisited regulating dispensaries. The city currently bans them, and got [...]

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Colorado Recreational Marijuana Sales Commence

January 1, 2014 at 9:30 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

At 8 a.m. on New Year’s Day, in an industrial area a few miles from downtown Denver, a former Marine named Sean Azzariti walked into a giant store and bought a bag of weed. Legally. To smoke just for fun, if he’s so inclined. Azzariti’s transaction — 3.5 grams of Bubba Kush for $40 and 50 mg of Truffles for an additional $9.28 — was the first in the state’s grand experiment in legalizing marijuana for recreational use. The first-in-the-nation [...]

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