Advocates of medical marijuana in California said yesterday – Tuesday 25 October 2011 – that a 2012 ballot initiative is being drafted calling for state-wide regulation of the mushrooming medical marijuana business.
The USA is making great progress with 15 of the states having legal medical marijuana. Unfortunately that means 70% of the states it is illegal to use medical marijuana. So there is still plenty of people across the USA and the world who are not legally able to take medical marijuana. If we all keep up the fight [...]
What are the legalities of marijuana use and possession in countries other than the US? In the following few posts we’ll give an overview of the current state of play regarding international cannabis laws.
How does a school principal reconcile the use of a legal medicine that is also an illegal drug?
Cannabis as a Medicine Never Killed Anybody says the Oregon based physician featured in this video. Wherever you are on your medical marijuana journey, he’s worth listening to.
Since 1993 in the US there have been over 8 million cannabis arrests, 88% not for growing or supplying the drug but simply for possessing it. That works out to one cannabis arrest every 40 seconds.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – A House committee considering a bill which was titled the Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act. Thus did the Pennsylvania legislature dip its toe into the roiling waters of the legalization debate for the first time yesterday.
Tthere appears to be a worldwide shift towards a more tolerant attitude towards marijuana. And the surprising fact is that the driver for this new thinking is not left-wing, militant and liberal; on the whole the support for leniency comes from ordinary folk across the whole political spectrum
With four separate pro-marijuana-legalization ballot papers currently circulating in California we ask if marijuana is already effectively legal.
Maine became the fifth state to allow licensed marijuana dispensaries this week.
