US MT: Lawyers Debate Marijuana Law
The Daily Inter Lake, 07 Jul 2011 – District Judge Stewart Stadler heard arguments Wednesday in a case pitting a medical marijuana advocacy group against Flathead County Attorney Ed Corrigan. The Montana Medical Growers Association sued Corrigan March 23 on behalf of two men charged with felonies after a February traffic stop that yielded three […]
Read moreUS WA: U.S. Decrees That Marijuana Has No Accepted Medical Use
The Columbian, 09 Jul 2011 – LOS ANGELES — Marijuana has been approved by California, many other states and the nation’s capital to treat a range of illnesses, but in a decision announced Friday the federal government ruled that it has no accepted medical use and should remain classified as a highly dangerous drug like […]
Read moreUS MI: The People You Meet At The People's Choice Dispensary
Ann Arbor Journal, 08 Jul 2011 – People’s Choice Alternative Medicine sort of blends in with the rest of South Main Street. Literally a 30-second stumble from Michigan Stadium, off of West Keech at 1054 South Main, the space is better identified to drivers and passersby for the white “Chiropractor 1054 Parking” sign outside than […]
Read moreUS CA: Pot Ordinance Approved
Paradise Post, 09 Jul 2011 – The Paradise Planning Commission approved a draft medical marijuana ordinance Thursday evening with minimal changes from the 12 -page staff-drafted document. The draft will be presented to the Paradise Town Council for its consideration and approval at a later date. During the public hearing on the ordinance, a few […]
Read moreUS CO: Column: Stop The Hatchet Job On Medical Marijuana Shops
Grand Junction Free Press, 08 Jul 2011 – Around the turn of the last century, Carrie Nation opposed alcohol use. So zealous was her crusade that she gained a reputation for barging into bars armed with her Bible and a hatchet to smash up the establishments. Some say she even excused the assassination of President […]
Read moreUS CA: Pot Harvest Hits Mid-season
Porterville Recorder, 09 Jul 2011 – The middle of the growing season for Tulare County’s leading cash crop is here. In 2010, the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department seized nearly $1.67 billion worth of marijuana, slightly outdoing $1.6 billion in revenue fetched the same year by the dairy industry, the county’s top commodity.
Read moreUS CO: County Still Working On Medical Marijuana Regs
The Flume, 08 Jul 2011 – The extension of the statewide moratorium on the opening of new medical marijuana centers has given Park County officials extra time to come up with rules concerning the burgeoning industry.
Read moreUS MI: OPED: Banning Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Not The
Livingston County Daily Press & Argus, 10 Jul 2011 – When I need tomatoes for pasta sauce, I don’t walk down my street knocking on doors asking if anybody has ripe romas. I go to the grocery store. When I need a T-shirt, I don’t drive 1,200 miles to the nearest cotton farm, pick a […]
Read moreUS CO: Column: A Sad Waste Of Public Money And Resources
The Aspen Times, 10 Jul 2011 – The politics of pot in Colorado sure seem to be heating up to climax of some sort, don’t you think? As the state government continues in its determined effort to overrule the voter-approved legalization of medical marijuana, with prohibition-style tactics, the entrepreneurs who tried to make a legal […]
Read moreUS AZ: Editorial: There's Irony In Objections To ACLU Suit
The Sun, 08 Jul 2011 – There is a good deal of irony in objections from Arizona State Attorney General Tom Horne to an American Civil Liberties Union challenge of the state’s lawsuit involving the voter-approved medical marijuana law. Implementation of the new law has been temporarily delayed because Gov.
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