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We have aggregated RSS feeds with all the cannabis news from The NY Times. Cannabis News and High Times. Keep informed!March 14th, 2010
While The Christian Science Monitor claims not to be an instrument of evangelizing, it does include a daily religious feature and it rejects drug advertising as well as images of smoking or drinking. It should come as no surprise then that in a March 12 editorial the Monitor showered praise on the nation’s drug czar [...]
March 14th, 2010
HILO, Hawai’i – Marijuana advocate Roger Christie said his home and offices have been raided by federal agents and Big Island police.
The founder and director of The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry said records, cash and marijuana he uses as a sacrament were seized Wednesday.
Christie said he knows of about half a dozen similar [...]
March 14th, 2010
Olympia — Gov. Christine Gregoire is expected to sign a bill that will give more health care professionals the authority to recommend medical marijuana to qualified users in the state.
Senate Bill 5798 allows naturopathic doctors, advanced physician assistants and nurse practitioners the power to OK a course of cannabis. It [...]
March 13th, 2010
CannaMed – Colorado’s largest medical pot evaluation company – faces scrutiny for selling patient information
Karen needed a medical marijuana card. She’d smoked enough pot in her fifty years to know that it subdued her recurring headaches, her nausea, the pain that lingered from the knee surgery she’d had a few years earlier. With all [...]
March 13th, 2010
Washington, D.C. — The Obama White House has finally laid out its most thorough, reasoned rebuttal to arguments for marijuana legalization – countering a campaign that is gaining alarming momentum at the state level.
The president’s tough position was delivered in early March by his “drug czar,” Gil Kerlikowske, in a [...]
March 12th, 2010
The bill allowing patients to get medical-marijuana authorizations from a wider range of health-care professionals came a step closer to becoming law as it passed in the Legislature Thursday.
Senate Bill 5798 extends the ability to authorize medical pot to a variety of other licensed health professionals in addition to MDs and [...]
March 12th, 2010
Sacramento officials Thursday night presented a plan to cap the number of marijuana dispensaries in the city at a dozen and impose strict requirements for their operations.
Faced with a packed room of pot shop owners and medical marijuana advocates, City Manager Gus Vina asked for measured input on “an emotional issue.”
But [...]
March 12th, 2010
Colorado — State lawmakers could be within shouting distance of a plan to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries with pending legislation that leaves hardly anyone happy. After hearing testimony late into the night on March 4, the House Judiciary Committee put off making any decisions about House Bill 1284, sponsored by Rep. [...]
March 11th, 2010
Concord, NH — New Hampshire’s House voted Wednesday to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults, but the victory was followed immediately by the governor’s pledge to veto the bill.
The House voted 214-137 to send a bill to the Senate to allow adults to possess [...]
March 7th, 2010
Four state lawmakers trying to regulate marijuana dispensaries sent a request to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday to stop raids on medical marijuana operations.
March 2nd, 2010
A lawsuit filed Tuesday challenges Los Angeles’s crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries, claiming that it would force nearly all of them to close.
February 18th, 2010
Los Angeles authorities have gone after 21 medical marijuana dispensaries, arresting one owner and filing lawsuits and eviction orders against outlets. The actions on Thursday involved alleged violations of state and federal marijuana laws. Prosecutors filed lawsuits against three dispensaries and sent eviction notices to business and property owners involving 18 others.
January 26th, 2010
The Los Angeles City Council voted to shutter roughly 80 percent of the city’s dispensaries and restrict their hours.January 24th, 2010
An Indian reservation is caught between the U.S. and Mexico as a major transit point for drugs as well as people.January 18th, 2010
Despite the Obama administration's tacit support of more liberal state medical marijuana laws, the federal government still discourages research into the medicinal uses of smoked marijuana. That may be one reason that -- even though some patients swear by it -- there is no good scientific evidence that legalizing marijuana's use provides any benefits over current therapies. Lyle E. Craker, a professor of plant sciences at the University of Massachusetts, has been trying to get permission from f...
January 15th, 2010
To the Editor: Re ''Compassion in New Jersey'' (editorial, Jan. 13):
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March 12th, 2010
It's been two weeks since my last blog and boy do the ladies look different!
As you can see from the images below, one issue I noticed were the T-5 upgrade lights at the bottom of the box are starting to cause some leaf burns, and even a stem decapitation.
The first little white hairs of flowering began to emerge at this stage.
A mere four days later, the girls were touching the top of the …More
March 12th, 2010
New Hampshire needs a new governor. After the House approved a bill Wednesday that would decriminalize possession of up to a quarter ounce of marijuana, Gov. John Lynch vowed to veto the bill.
This isn’t the first time Lynch has stymied marijuana law reform in New Hampshire. In 2008 the House also passed a decrim bill that Lynch threatened to veto – it was later defeated in the Senate. Lynch is also the reason New Hampshire doesn’t currently have a medical marijuana …More
March 12th, 2010
An officer in New Jersey smelled pot in the air and tracked it to a house where smoke was coming from a chimney. As it turns out, the source of the smoke was a grower burning “unusable parts” of pot plants in the fireplace.
This discovery led to the biggest pot-growing bust in New Jersey history. Six houses were raided as a result of the burning marijuana and cops seized 3,370 plants and 115 pounds of dry pot – not to mention growing equipment and cash. Officials …More
March 12th, 2010
As the late and great James Brown once sang, “This is a man’s world.” But with more and more female breeders making a name for themselves through superb genetics, a shift in the predominantly male landscape of cannabis cultivation can be seen on the horizon.
Story and Photos by MzJill
Many people, male and female, share a love for marijuana. And while male growers dominate the current cannabis cultivation community, the ladies are taking a new interest …More
March 12th, 2010
For years we've heard tall tales from the government about the dreaded "gateway effect" of marijuana. 'Try it and soon you'll be hankering for a stronger high. Shortly thereafter, you're a junkie on the street desperately seeking another fix.'
I won't go into the many reasons why this is an obvious fallacy based on specious logic. I'll leave that to your own common sense.
Personally, I believe that marijuana can have the exact opposite effect; that smoking or …More
