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Medical Marijuana
Doctor-recommended medical marijuana is already legal in a dozen states, with at least two more likely to legalize pot for medical uses in November. It has been shown helpful in treating nausea and pain associated with cancer... [more]
Doctor-recommended medical marijuana is already legal in a dozen states, with at least two more likely to legalize pot for medical uses in November. It has been shown helpful in treating nausea and pain associated with cancer, chemotherapy, HIV and hepatitis C; spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis; intra-ocular pressure in glaucoma; and a host of other conditions.
Yet the federal government refuses to recognize any valid medical use for the herb, and continues raids and arrests of medical marijuana patients and providers in states which have legalized medical use.
Times OnlinePortland's Cannabis Cafe is not the first medical marijuana coffee shop in AmericaExaminer.comOn Friday the 13th NORML announced the opening, in Portland, of the first medical marijuana coffee shop in America. Since then this unforgivable error has ...First marijuana coffee shop opens in AmericaTelegraph.co.ukSoaking up the atmosphere at America's first 'Cannabis Café'Times Onlineall 34 news articles »
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We intended, with the passage of the marijuana law that the federal government not be allowed to dictate the use of any plant that needs no chemical to be active and healing.We also intended that the local government keep regulation to a minimum, using existing laws ie; zoning, safety , etc'. More than that are not necessary. It is a plant for cryin' out loud, not a meth lab. Existing law can embrace the inclusion of marijuana dispensaries as...
From denverpost.com
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- Comment on AG Suthers says Colorado can tax medical marijuana (denverpost.com)
- The Other Maine Vote (marcambinder.theatlantic.com)
HELENA — Five years after voters overwhelmingly approved its use, medical marijuana is becoming a booming business in Montana. But some medical marijuana groups are at odds over the direction they think the budding industry should go, and how growers and patients should operate within the gray areas of the current state law.
From greatfallstribune.com
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- In Montana, Medical Marijuana Law Creates Dilemma (flatheadbeacon.com)
- Federal prosecutor: Medical marijuana raids won’t stop (feedproxy.google.com)
Re: “State can tax medical pot,” Nov. 17 news story.
The governor’s office released a statement that the state will tax medical marijuana dispensaries. The Denver Post reported that spokesman Evan Dreyer said we need to tax this industry because “what we have now is chaos.”
I must point out that the program is not chaos. It [...]
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From blogs.denverpost.com
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As the City Council tries to regulate the medical marijuana dispensaries and collectives popping up all over the city, Long Beach Police will continue to enforce the laws regarding illegal pot smoking.
Under former President Bush, federal agents went after such stores because all marijuana is illegal at the federal level—even though California voters approved a proposition in 1996 allowing cannabis
From longbeachcomber.com
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- Red Bluff City Council tables medical marijuana ban (rss.mnginteractive.com)
- L.A. City Council and D.A. Spar Over Medical Marijuana Law (thelede.blogs.nytimes.com)
PORTLAND, Oregon -- A cafe in Portland is the first in the state, and among the first in the nation, to allow patrons to smoke marijuana inside.
The Cannabis Cafe will only be open to diners with a medical marijuana card. Draperies will be put over the windows to keep in line with Oregon law, requiring medical marijuana be consumed in private.
The owners of the Cannabis Cafe have run into some controversy in the past, when the site was used...
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From krem.com
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DENVER | Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. on Tuesday directed the state's medical-marijuana dispensaries to pay sales tax and obtain retail-sales licenses, bringing the once-taboo product closer to mainstream respectability. Colorado is now the second state, behind California, to tax and regulate medical-marijuana sales, a move that comes on the heels of the Obama administration's decision in October to leave enforcement of laws governing medical...
From washingtontimes.com
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- Colorado governor: Let’s tax medical marijuana (rationalreview.com)
- mttrailboss (mtstandard.com)
The city of Fresno is preparing for a new round of legal action against medical marijuana dispensaries that are defying a judge's order to shut down. The city attorney's office thinks one or two clinics are still operating despite last month's temporary injunction.
From abclocal.go.com
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- N.M. approves four new medical marijuana producers (newmexicoindependent.com)
DENVER — Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter plans to direct medical marijuana dispensaries to start paying sales tax.
Ritter's move comes after Colorado Attorney John Suthers concluded in an opinion issued Monday that medical marijuana is considered personal property that can be taxed and shouldn't be treated like prescription drugs, which are tax exempt.
Ritter spokesman Evan Dreyer says the administration will immediately tell dispensaries...
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From huffingtonpost.com
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A proposed medical marijuana ordinance for Los Angeles has failed to garner a majority of votes. Today, two committees rejected the fifth proposal submitted in a year and a half time, this one drafted by the recently-elected City Attorney Carmen Trutanich. Proponents of medical marijuana threatened to sue if this draft went through and the majority of councilmembers agreed that it was too prohibitive. The full council could still take up...
From laist.com
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- Columnist's NIMBYness and twisted logic (morganhilltimes.com)
