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Grassroots lobbyists garner support for legalizing medical marijuana in Texas

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:02:52 +0100

Support is building, for a push to legalize medical marijuana during this year's legislative session.Grassroots lobbyists include those who are terminally ill as well as veteran police officers from amore

Nation's Largest Indoor Medical Marijuana Grow Proposed In Chico

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:51:21 +0100

CHICO, Calif. -- A southern California business is hoping to capitalize on the medical marijuana movement by opening a 600,000-square-foot indoor medical marijuana grow in Chico. Plant Properties Manamore

Maine OKs Down East marijuana dispensary

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:47:31 +0100

AUGUSTA, Maine — State health officials on Tuesday selected a Portland-based nonprofit to open a medical marijuana dispensary in the small Washington County town of Whitneyville. Primary Organic Themore

Proposed Colorado pot farm on countryside angers residents

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:46:42 +0100

The investor saw potential in the scrubby 67 acres tucked away amid multimillion dollar homes: He would turn the land into a vast pot farm and capitalize on the booming medical marijuana industry. Butmore

New Mexico proposes changes to medical cannabis

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:45:43 +0100

New Mexico is proposing an increase in fees on medical marijuana producers to help fund administration of the state's program. The New Mexico Department of Health, which operates the program, wants tomore

Montana panel makes progress to fix medical marijuana law

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:44:22 +0100

We’re encouraged by last week’s legislative action moving the process forward to tighten Montana’s medical marijuana regulations. Granted, this is just a little step in what will be a long legismore

Smoking cannabis may ease chronic pain

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:46:47 +0100

People with chronic pain who aren't getting enough relief from medications may be able to ease their pain by smoking small amounts of marijuana, a new study suggests. Marijuana also helps pain patientmore

Medicine Users and Medicine Millionaires: Wanna Make a Lot of Money?

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:07:26 +0100

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - As a physician/pharmacologist I retain a great interest in what is going on in the pharmaceutical industry. I search the Internet to see what drugs are used the most. The listings armore

Medical Use of Marijuana Costs Some a Job

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:27:40 +0100

Residents in 14 states and Washington can now appeal to their doctors for prescriptions for medical marijuana to help them with their pain. Their employers, however, may not be so understanding. In somore

Can medical marijuana aid the prescription addiction epidemic?

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:41:16 +0100

For months, media reports have chronicled fiery debates over marijuana’s medicinal utility and its impact on our broader communities. But what about those constituencies who don’t have a lobbyist more

Los Angeles countersues over new medical marijuana rules

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:34:29 +0100

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles city attorney filed a lawsuit Thursday asking a judge to support the city's move to shut down more than 130 medical marijuana shops under a new ordinance. The city clerk more

Roadblocks in Washington D.C. marijuana law don't quell entrepreneurs' excitement

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:30:25 +0100

The District is writing strict new rules to regulate its nascent medical marijuana industry, but some of the entrepreneurs best positioned to lead the way have blemished backgrounds -- including drug more

Los Angeles finds only a quarter of registered medical marijuana dispensaries eligible to stay open

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:37:55 +0100

Los Angeles may soon be facing a major shortage of marijuana dispensaries. City officials have taken a much stricter than expected approach to an ordinance regulating dispensaries and ruled that only more

Los Angeles needs a clear policy for the marijuana growing industry

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:35:11 +0100

IF there was ever an industry that cried out for more regulation, more oversight, more legitimacy, it's California's medical marijuana industry.Yes, we're calling it an industry. While those who proffmore

Boulder County to review cannabis farm proposal

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:41:11 +0100

At issue is a proposed land-use change that would allow “intensive agricultural use” of the 67-acre property at 10437 Yellowstone Road — specifically, the cultivation, harvesting and drying of mmore

Colorado Springs City council won't put dispensary ban to November vote

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:40:17 +0100

Colorado Springs voters will not get a chance to decide the fate of the 176 medical marijuana dispensaries and grow operations in the city this November, but they may still have a shot in April. Recenmore

Helena Montana Committee expected to approve medical marijuana overhaul

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:38:45 +0100

HELENA, Mont. - A legislative committee on Monday finalized details of a planned overhaul of the state's medical marijuana law, setting up a final vote to send the proposals to the 2011 Legislature. Tmore

New Jersey Medical-marijuana backers seek workable regulations

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:16:53 +0100

TRENTON - New Jersey legalized medical marijuana eight months ago, but its advocates are finding that a law alone does not get the drug to patients. About 70 activists - including potential patients, more

Oregon Panel backs dispensaries for medical marijuana

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:57:36 +0100

Members of a citizen review panel meeting all week in Salem narrowly favored a ballot measure Friday that would allow dispensaries for medical marijuana. The vote by citizens chosen at random and balamore

Medical marijuana use in Pennsylvania wins lots of support

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:52:07 +0100

Health and law enforcement experts yesterday argued for the legalization of marijuana for medical use in Pennsylvania during a public hearing in Oakland. More than 70 people attended the hearing at thmore