All four proposed medical marijuana dispensaries that previously advanced through the city licensing process are now free to pursue building permits and other final approvals.
David Bronner locked himself in a metal cage Monday outside the White House with a stash of hemp plants and equipment, hoping to make enough hemp oil to spread on a piece of French bread.
Patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) recently discovered that a second patient at has been denied a transplant in the past year because of their medical marijuana use. In response, ASA sent a letter today to the Cedars-Sinai Transplant Center on behalf of Toni Trujillo, a qualified medical marijuana patient who was removed from the kidney transplant list earlier this year. Trujillo has had kidney problems for most of her life and has been on dialysis for the past 5 years, ever since an existing kidney transplant began failing.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Tommy Chong, legendary comedian and hero of the marijuana movement, told CNN in a recent interview that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will be treating his condition with cannabis oil.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Paul Michael Glaser, who played a TV cop on "Starky and Hutch" in the 1970s, has been arrested for possessing pot and paraphernalia while on a book tour in Kentucky.
It’s been 30 days since R v. Mernagh was argued before Ontario Court of Appeal. If we’re lucky a ruling from the panel of three judges – who are known to vote in tandem – could be done sometime in August. Could be sooner or later, but it took 90 days to write the original ruling. Given the gravity of R v. Mernagh, I’m anticipating the justices to examine this issue very closely. They’re not going to take striking down personal marijuana possession and grow laws and a government run program lightly.
A judge on the state's highest court today ordered a change in a planned ballot question to legalize medical marijuana in order to better describe the effect of a "yes" vote to approve the question.