Items tagged with medical cannabis
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| Backlash to Crackdown Grows [19.10.2011] | Marijuana activists in California are gearing up this week for a flurry of statewide protests during President Obama's October 25 visit to the Bay Ar ... |
| California's Coming Crackdown on Pot: What Do You Do if You Need It? [19.10.2011] | Four California-based U.S. attorneys have announced their intent to prosecute the medical-marijuana dispensaries, growers and delivery services that ... |
| California Medical Assn. calls for legalization of marijuana [15.10.2011] | The California Medical Association, representing more than 35,000 physicians statewide, questions the medical value of pot and acknowledges some heal ... |
| Federal crackdown on medical pot sales reflects a shift in policy [07.10.2011] | The Obama administration's crackdown on California's highly profitable medical marijuana industry represents a dramatic departure from the low-key app ... |
| Feds escalate efforts to close California pot shops [07.10.2011] | Federal prosecutors are threatening to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries throughout California, sending letters that warn landlords to stop sal ... |
| Medical marijuana law under review [29.09.2011] | Health Canada began two days of closed-door talks Wednesday about changes to the controversial medical marijuana law that has faced legal challenges ... |
| Four pot smokers get their stash from U.S. government under little-known program [28.09.2011] | For the past three decades, Uncle Sam has been providing patients with some of the highest grade marijuana around as part of a little-known program t ... |
| Medical pot OK in Seattle, in trouble in Spokane [18.09.2011] | The largest federal crackdown in the 13-year history of the state medical-marijuana law has sent Spokane's once-open medical-marijuana businesses div ... |
| Czech Health Ministry signals steps to legalize medical marijuana [14.09.2011] | The Czech Ministry of Health has indicated that it will take marijuana off the list of banned substances and allow it to be prescribed by doctors for ... |
| With few rules, pot dispensaries try policing themselves [26.08.2011] | In the absence of government regulation, the local medical-marijuana industry increasingly is trying to professionalize the industry with such self-po ... |
| Medical marijuana advocates seek PM's support [23.08.2011] | The organisers of a Czech petition for the legalisation of cannabis in medical treatment have asked Prime Minister Petr Necas to support the relevant ... |
| Doctors, patients seek permission for marijuana use in treatment [17.08.2011] | Czech doctors, patients and scientists launched a petition for the legal use of marijuana in treating sclerosis multiplex, the Parkinson disease, can ... |
| Medical marijuana: The Justice Department speaks – again [08.08.2011] | Medical marijuana suppliers complain that the Justice Department is tightening the federal government's approach to enforcement. That's a disingenuou ... |
| Obama’s Drug Policy: Yet Another Broken Promise [28.07.2011] | When Obama first took office in 2009, he promised a drug policy more focused on public health. However, recent statements from the DEA and raids on m ... |
| Legal Marijuana in Arizona, but Not for the Sellers [22.07.2011] | Voters narrowly approved a ballot initiative last November allowing medical marijuana in the state, but the result has been just the opposite of an o ... |
| New medical pot law in Wash. brings uncertainty [21.07.2011] | The uncertainty comes after lawmakers worked for months on a plan that would help clear up the state's medical marijuana laws. The Legislature approv ... |
| Seattle's Marijuana-Garden Ordinance: The New Don't Ask, Don't Tell [21.07.2011] | Like every section that's left of the mostly vetoed medical-marijuana-reform law that passed in April, section 403 is vague, confusing, and inadequat ... |
| New federal memo on medical marijuana stirs angst [18.07.2011] | In October 2009, medical marijuana advocates celebrated a U.S. Department of Justice memo declaring that federal authorities wouldn't target the lega ... |
| Seattle to license, tax medical marijuana gardens [18.07.2011] | The Seattle City Council unanimously passed rules Monday requiring that medical marijuana operations be licensed, obtain food-handling permits if the ... |
| Despite Legalization in New Jersey, Medical Marijuana Remains Out of Reach [17.07.2011] | In the last few months, officials in New Jersey, as well as several other states, have said that mixed signals from the Obama administration have lef ... |
| Medical Marijuana: A Science-Free Zone At The White House [15.07.2011] | President Obama came into office promising to reverse George W. Bush administration practices and elevate science over politics. He explicitly applie ... |
| Defending providers of medical marijuana [13.07.2011] | A committee of the Seattle City Council grappled Wednesday with a proposed ordinance for medical-marijuana cooperatives. It would be much easier for ... |
| U.S. rules that marijuana has no medical use. What does science say? [11.07.2011] | The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ruled that marijuana has "no accepted medical use" and should therefore remain illegal under federal la ... |
| U.S. decrees that marijuana has no accepted medical use [09.07.2011] | Marijuana has been approved by California, many other states and the nation's capital to treat a range of illnesses, but in a decision the federal go ... |
| Medical-pot shops feel heat amid new laws, federal prosecution warning [04.07.2011] | Colorado's medical-marijuana industry took a battering from all sides, as new laws restricting the businesses took effect and the Obama administratio ... |
| California medical marijuana growers face pressure [02.07.2011] | A new Obama administration memo approves federal prosecution of anyone in the business of growing or supplying marijuana for medical patients even if ... |
| Justice Department "Clarifies" Stance on Medical Marijuana: It's Illegal And They Will Arrest You [01.07.2011] | For a few weeks now, medical marijuana activists have been waiting for Attorney General Eric Holder to "re-clarify" exactly what the Justice Departme ... |
| Delaware governor signs bill making it the 16th state to legalize medical marijuana [13.05.2011] | Gov. Jack Markell has signed legislation making Delaware the 16th state to allow the use of medical marijuana. The new law allows people 18 and older ... |
| Federal prosecutors step into debate over medical marijuana, warn of potential criminal cases [03.05.2011] | Several states have started reassessing their medical marijuana laws after stern warnings from the federal government that everyone from licensed gro ... |
| Medical marijuana: Federal pressure stirs legal confusion [21.04.2011] | Threatened medical-marijuana crackdowns by federal prosecutors in other states have stoked fears about whether state employees, dispensary owners and ... |
| Ruling brings optimism for medical marijuana users [14.04.2011] | The Ontario Superior Court in Canada declared the rules that govern medical marijuana access and the prohibitions laid out in sections 4 and 7 of the ... |
| Medical marijuana market worth $1.7 billion a year [24.03.2011] | The medical marijuana market in the U.S. generates $1.7 billion a year but a new report suggests that number could multiple as more U.S. states legal ... |
| Voters approve Arizona medical marijuana measure [14.11.2010] | By a narrow margin, Arizona voters have given their OK to legalized medical marijuana for people with chronic or debilitating diseases. The decision ... |
| Marijuana's journey to legal health treatment [16.08.2009] | In 2001, Canada became the first country to adopt a formal system to regulate the medicinal use of marijuana — the Marijuana Medical Access Regulatio ... |
| Study finds no cancer-marijuana connection [25.05.2006] | The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer. The new fi ... |
| Therapeutic Use of Cannabis by Crack Addicts in Brazil [01.10.1999] | This study ensued from clinical observations based on spontaneous accounts by crack abusers undergoing their first psychiatric assessment, where they ... |
| Marijuana and Medicine [01.01.1999] | The medical use of marijuana is surrounded by a cloud of social, political, and religious controversy, which obscures the facts that should be consid ... |
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