The people of Massachusetts will have the opportunity to vote on an initiative that would legalize medical weed and it’s partly because a member of the 1 percent who is footing the bill. His name is Peter Lewis and he’s the chairman for Progressive Insurance. Read more »
For years pharmaceutical companies have been developing bunk synthetic pot-like products that aren’t nearly effective (or as good) as the real thing, but a new drug being proposed to the FDA by a British company is, and that’s caused it contains extracts from the actual plant. And we’re not talking schwag. Read more »
Mainly, that pot isn’t all that bad for your health. The 20 year study, which by most standards is considered a thorough one, was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association, and found that the “Occasional and low cumulative marijuana use was not associated with adverse effects on pulmonary function.” Read more »
On Wednesday, a federal judge told Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to stop being such a bitch about Proposition 203, a bill that voters passed by referendum in 2010 to legalize medical weed. Read more »
This year, federal authorities have been particularly busy cracking down on the medical weed industry in California, the epicenter of pot production in the U.S., and according to some growers, this has been great for business. Read more »
CBS News responsibly asks: “Does legalizing marijuana for medicinal use turn young people into pot fiends?” And then immediately answers: “New data from Rhode Island – which legalized medical marijuana in 2006 – suggest it doesn’t.” It’s too bad they didn’t bury the lede, this article could have been way more sensationalist than it already is if they dragged things out a little more.
First they targeted the landlords of medical weed dispensaries and now the Department of Justice is going after the banks that service them. A Chase branch in Northern California with holdings that include a building rented to the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, received a letter from U.S. Attorney Melinda Hagg warning the bank that the government can swoop in and take their assets. Read more »
Despite his assurances on the campaign trail and a really hopeful memo in 2009 from the Department of Justice, President Obama has all but abandoned his promise of not harassing states that have passed medical weed laws and now federal prosecutors are employing a new tactic to try and foce dispensaries out of business. Read more »
When he was running for governor against that madman with the bat, Andrew Cuomo said he didn’t support the legalization of medical weed because the “dangers … outweigh the benefits,” thoroughly enraging me. Read more »
Back in January of 2010, then Governor John Corzine signed a bill before he left office, making New Jersey the 14th state in the U.S. to legalize medical weed. Despite all that heavy lifting, incoming Governor Chris Christie sat on his ass and refused to move the law forward until now, and by year’s end, six dispensaries are expected to open.
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