US CA: Pot Backers' Ballot Effort in Disarray
Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar 2012 – Marijuana Legalization Activists Vowed to Craft a Strong Initiative for 2012, Now Four Camps Vie for Funding.
Read moreUS WA: PUB LTE: Stop Trying To Legislate Behavior
The Columbian, 11 Mar 2012 – Reading the Feb.
Read moreUS CT: Editorial: OK Medical Marijuana
The Day, 12 Mar 2012 – It would be foolish and arguably inhumane to discount the steady stream of witnesses who come before the Connecticut legislature every year and testify, at some legal risk, that for them only the use of marijuana provides relief from various debilitating diseases without the unbearable side effects of medically […]
Read moreUS CA: Familiarity With Drugs Helps A Group Speak For Users
New York Times, 12 Mar 2012 – SAN FRANCISCO – With a couple of old desks, a beat-up couch and an off-white white board, the office space at 149 Turk Street, in this city’s seedy Tenderloin district, is hardly remarkable. A collection of worn detective novels sits on the bookshelf, a couple of American flags […]
Read moreUS HI: PUB LTE: Pot From God
Hawaii Tribune Herald, 13 Mar 2012 – Another reason to allow sick citizens to use cannabis (marijuana) for pain that doesn’t get mentioned (“Medical marijuana bill goes to the House for consideration,” March 7) is because it is biblically correct, since God indicates He created all the seed-bearing plants, saying they are all good, on […]
Read moreUS CA: Ban Lifted on Outdoor Medical Pot Plots
The Record, 14 Mar 2012 – JACKSON – Amador County medical-marijuana patients will be able to grow their medicine in outdoor gardens this year, although those plots will be smaller than they had hoped.
Read moreUS WA: Maple Valley City Council Backs Effort to Have Feds
Covington Reporter, 15 Mar 2012 – The Maple Valley City Council has thrown its support behind the movement for the federal government to reclassify medical marijuana as a Schedule II drug. At its Feb. 21 meeting, the City Council approved a motion to support a Nov. 30, 2011 joint letter submitted by Rhode Island Gov. […]
Read moreUS CA: Explosions In The High
Sacramento News & Review, 15 Mar 2012 – Butane Hash Oil Is Blasting Off-Both in Popularity And, Sometimes, Literally Hash of all kinds is more popular than ever in Sacramento. But a lot of it is made with butane: Is this safe for patients to consume? Or even make?
Read moreUS CO: City Limits Medical Marijuana Centers To Three
The Cortez Journal, 15 Mar 2012 – The Cortez City Council approved an ordinance regulating medical marijuana centers within city limits — despite objections from three industry workers to limiting the number of centers.
Read moreUS CA: Judge Denies Redding's Injunction Request; Marijuana
Record Searchlight, 15 Mar 2012 – A Shasta County Superior Court judge has denied the Redding’s request for a court order that would have closed down medical marijuana dispensaries across the city.
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