Items tagged with medical cannabis
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A Judge’s Plea for Pot [15.05.2012] | The New York State Legislature is now debating a bill to recognize marijuana as an effective and legitimate medicinal substance and establish a lawfu ... |
The Israeli pharmacologist who kick-started marijuana research [13.05.2012] | Half a century ago, Hebrew University Prof. Raphael Mechoulam isolated and synthesized THC, the main psychoactive compound in the cannabis plant. By ... |
Connecticut aims to avoid states' medical marijuana woes [04.05.2012] | Connecticut lawmakers' approval of the use of medical marijuana includes strict regulations for the cultivation and distribution in an attempt to avo ... |
What Is President Obama’s Problem With Medical Marijuana? [02.05.2012] | For a brief moment in 2009, medical marijuana advocates exhaled. A new President had taken office promising to call off the federal prosecutors in st ... |
California's "Princeton of Pot" reopens in bare-bones state [17.04.2012] | A California school known as the "Princeton of Pot" has reopened after a federal raid, but with a bare-bones staff of volunteers to teach the art of ... |
Rally protests federal raid on Oakland pot trade school [04.04.2012] | Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at City Hall to demand federal respect for state and local marijuana laws, a day after federal agents raided the s ... |
Agents in Oakland raid leader of medical marijuana movement [02.04.2012] | Federal agents struck at the heart of California's medical marijuana movement, raiding the nation's first pot trade school and a popular dispensary, ... |
Israeli medicine goes to pot [28.03.2012] | Israel’s inroads into legalizing cannabis for pain relief and managing terminal illness rest on the seminal research of Prof. Raphael Mechoulam of th ... |
How many pot patients Calif. has is anyone's guess [23.03.2012] | The reality is that no one knows how many people are legally using marijuana in California because the state — with hundreds of pot stores and clinic ... |
Attorney tells more Colorado medical pot centers to close [22.03.2012] | Colorado's top federal prosecutor has ordered 25 medical marijuana shops located near schools to close in an escalating pot clampdown, as the state g ... |
Medical marijuana distributors subject to federal prosecution despite state law [13.02.2012] | A Montana medical marijuana law does not shield cannabis dispensers from federal prosecution, a district court has ruled. The ruling will decrease th ... |
Testing pot in a legal vacuum [12.02.2012] | Only some top-end dispensaries test their products, and even they can't be sure the results are reliable. Because all marijuana possession is illegal ... |
California pot industry's next move: Ballot initiative for state regulation [06.02.2012] | A proposed ballot initiative aimed for the November elections begs a key question looming over California's medical marijuana industry: Can stricter ... |
MPs complete legislation aimed at legalizing cannabis for medical purposes [03.02.2012] | A group of Czech MPs from all of the parties in the Chamber of Deputies has completed legislation which could legalise the use of cannabis in the Cze ... |
Marijuana Mouth Spray: Will It Be Abused? [31.01.2012] | The medical marijuana drug Sativex, which could be approved in the United States in the coming years as a treatment for pain relief, has little poten ... |
Marijuana-based prescription drug looks toward FDA's approval [22.01.2012] | A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ingredient in mari ... |
Many US communities are blocking medical marijuana [09.01.2012] | In California, with the nation's most permissive medical marijuana laws, 185 cities and counties have banned pot dispensaries entirely. In New Jersey ... |
Prescribing Cannabis for Harm Reduction [05.01.2012] | Neuropathic pain affects between 5% and 10% of the US population and can be refractory to treatment. Opioids may be recommended as a second-line phar ... |
States say it's time to rethink medical marijuana [01.01.2012] | Medical marijuana advocates are hoping state governments can succeed where their efforts have failed by asking federal authorities to reclassify pot ... |
Marijuana legalization initiative signatures in [29.12.2011] | Backers of an effort to legalize and regulate recreational marijuana use in Washington state submitted more than 340,000 signatures Thursday to try t ... |
Colorado seeks new pot classification [28.12.2011] | Colorado has become the third state to ask the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana in a way that allows doctors to prescribe ... |
Ten Years of Medical Marijuana in Canada [12.12.2011] | In Canada, possession of medical marijuana is controlled under the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations, which came into effect in the summer of 2001 ... |
Medical marijuana debate rages among researchers, doctors [11.12.2011] | Research into medicinal marijuana is undergoing a surge of interest, with more evidence emerging not only of its ability to ease human suffering, but ... |
Equal access to medical marijuana eludes Canadians [09.12.2011] | Data obtained by the Ottawa Citizen through the Access to Information Act put a face to the typical medical marijuana patient for the first time, 10 ... |
Legal changes cause questions for medical marijuana users [09.12.2011] | The Tories omnibus crime legislation casts a shadow on the future of the medical marijuana program. The toughening of drug trafficking laws means tha ... |
Should We Reschedule Marijuana? [07.12.2011] | Last week's request by Govs. Chris Gregoire and Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee to have the federal government reclassify marijuana as medicine--which ... |
Combination of cannabinoids and opiates could help reduce chronic pain [07.12.2011] | A UCSF study suggests patients with chronic pain may experience greater relief if their doctors add cannabinoids - the main ingredient in cannabis or ... |
Marijuana in California and Colorado: Highs and laws [03.12.2011] | While it is allowed in some form in 16 states and Washington, DC, Colorado is the leader in trying to make medicinal pot a legitimate business. It ha ... |
New legislation proposes legalization of medical cannabis under strict rules [02.12.2011] | A government expert group is adding finishing touches to new draft legislation proposing the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes. While st ... |
Wash. governor wants DEA to reclassify marijuana [30.11.2011] | Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee have filed a petition with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration asking the ag ... |
Report shows fewer traffic fatalities after states pass medical-pot laws [30.11.2011] | The passage of state medical-marijuana laws is associated with a subsequent drop in the rate of traffic fatalities, according to a newly released stu ... |
Medical Marijuana Industry Is Unnerved by U.S. Crackdown [23.11.2011] | An intensifying federal crackdown on growers and sellers of state-authorized medical marijuana has badly shaken the billion-dollar industry, which ha ... |
Poll: Public supports medical marijuana, but not full pot legalization [18.11.2011] | According a recent CBS News poll conducted at the end of October, a slim majority of 51 percent continues to think that marijuana use should be illeg ... |
Colorado's Marijuana 'Green Rush' [17.11.2011] | There are currently 16 states that allow some form of legalized medical marijuana, but only Colorado allows marijuana businesses to operate as such. ... |
Vet to Feds: Enough Stonewalling, Give Us Pot for PTSD [16.11.2011] | “My life went downhill from the moment I came back from Iraq,” Begin, now a 31-year-old veteran. “Doctors at Bethesda had me on so much, and on such ... |
Cannabis crackdown threatens legal trade in 'medical marijuana' [14.11.2011] | The Internal Revenue Service, America's tax collecting agency, sent a letter demanding an initial $2.5 million in back taxes and characterised the Ha ... |
California court rules cities, counties can ban pot stores [11.11.2011] | In a decision that could have immediate fallout for medical marijuana dispensaries, a state appeals court has ruled that California law allows cities ... |
Reefer Madness [06.11.2011] | Marijuana is now legal under state law for medical purposes in 16 states and the District of Columbia, encompassing nearly one-third of the American ... |
Lawsuits filed to block federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries [04.11.2011] | Lawsuits were filed today in federal courts in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego in a move to block efforts by U.S. attorneys to c ... |
Federal policy toward medical-pot businesses remains puzzling [04.11.2011] | Fifteen years after the first state legalized medical marijuana — and set up a confrontation with federal law that keeps cannabis illegal — federal l ... |
Study: legal medical marijuana doesn't encourage kids to smoke more pot [03.11.2011] | Despite warnings from opponents of medical marijuana, legalizing the drug for medical purposes does not encourage teens to smoke more pot, according ... |
Doctors refuse to OK marijuana use [01.11.2011] | A decade after Canada legalized the medical use of marijuana, most doctors are still refusing to sign the declarations patients need to get legal acc ... |
Viewpoints: Patient safety is priority in medical pot policy [01.11.2011] | Recently, the California Medical Association, representing more than 35,000 physicians, the largest statewide physician organization in America, bold ... |
California Medical Assn. support of marijuana legalization has doctors talking [31.10.2011] | The California Medical Assn.'s recent decision to support marijuana legalization has drawn mixed opinions from physicians and others. At the same tim ... |
Rep. Sam Farr, House members question California pot club crackdown [31.10.2011] | Several members of California's congressional delegation are taking their concerns about a federal crackdown on the state's medical marijuana dispens ... |
Medical cannabis may get approval [26.10.2011] | A group of medical and criminal law experts are moving forward with drafting a plan that would clear marijuana for medicinal use. "There is a consens ... |
Justice Dept. memo writer is mum on pot crackdown [26.10.2011] | A high-ranking U.S. Justice Department official who wrote a memo saying state medical marijuana laws do not provide immunity from federal prosecution ... |
Czech firms likely to be cleared to grow medical marijuana [24.10.2011] | Czech health experts are in favor of allowing medical marijuana to be prescribed for a wide range of conditions with home grown marijuana in the Czec ... |
Obama's misguided crackdown on medical marijuana [24.10.2011] | Why is the U.S. government cracking down on medical marijuana, a $1.7 billion business — and one of the few that seems to be thriving in a moribund ec ... |
Medical marijuana - lost in the haze of state law [23.10.2011] | Californians need to be honest with themselves: The marijuana industry that is flourishing in plain sight is not really about medicine. No question, ... |
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