Here is a list of 10 unlikely marijuana friendly destinations. 1. Kingston, Jamaica: When cold weather arrives, or any time you want a ganja vacation, you probably want to go to Jamaica. Land of Bob Marley, with marijuana growing an agricultural livelihood for many islanders, cannabis lovers across the world flock to the Caribbean to [...]
In a unanimous decision the California Supreme Court ruled on May 6, that city and county governments have the legal authority to ban cannabis care centers. The CSC ruled that local governments even retain the right to use zoning laws and other bureaucratic tactics to wipe care centers out of existence within their respected jurisdictions. [...]
Cannabis Reform Activists Decry ‘Ugly’ Cannabis Reform Free New York Budget Deal By Toby Rogers Cannabis reform activists in New York walked out of Albany last month, as usual, with nothing this legislative session. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who made cannabis reform his top priority, was also handed his second cannabis reform defeat in [...]
Here is a great video courtesy of our friends The Bloom Room on the benefits of Cannabis. The Bloom Room is dedicated to providing premium, medical-grade cannabis to its members. They strive to educate Their patient community about the medical science of cannabis, and to offer a comfortable, clean, and safe environment for them to [...]
NYPD Spent One Million Hours On 440,000 Cannabis Arrests, A “Huge Waste” Says Report By Toby Rogers A joint report by the Drug Policy Alliance and the Marijuana Arrest Research Project released yesterday indicates that the New York Police Department has spent 1 million hours on 440,000 low level cannabis possession arrests between 2002 and [...]
Even better than the real thing? Not in Maryland. Maryland’s medical cannabis bill has a clause within it that criminalizes synthetic cannabis, otherwise known as “incense” or “spice,” while allowing medical cannabis to researched academically and prescribed to patients by a doctor or a nurse. The measure, part of a move to stem public outcry [...]
“Code of the West,” the critically acclaimed documentary on medical marijuana providers in Montana, became dated almost as soon as it was originally released, one more casualty of a much broader tempest of political intrigue and public backlash that eventually cost one man his freedom and another his life. The film, a human-centric meditation on [...]
Massachusetts Department of Public Health issues new proposed medical marijuana regulations By David L Tamarin, Esquire In the November 2012 elections, Massachusetts voters passed a ballot question that would legalize marijuana in Massachusetts for medical purposes. The measure passed with over 63 per cent of voters supporting it, and the new law went into effect [...]
State #19 On the Way Both houses of the Maryland state legislature have approved a bill to allow medical marijuana for limited purposes. On Monday, the state Senate approved the bill by a 42-4 margin; Governor Martin O’Malley is expected to sign it. Instead of allowing dispensaries as other states (most recently Massachusetts) have done, [...]
52% urge full legalization; 72% say prohibitions “cost more than they’re worth” A Pew Research poll released this week has registered the highest-ever support for cannabis legalization, with a solid majority (52% to 45%) favoring the end of the drug’s 75-year prohibition in the US. The recent numbers represent a dramatic shift in public opinion [...]
