Federal officials from at least three law enforcement agencies raided Oaksterdam University and several other locations owned or affiliated with Prop 19 founder Richard Lee in Oakland this morning. IRS and DEA spokespeople said the search warrant for the raids is under seal, with no time frame for the seal being lifted. They would not [...]
Sir Paul McCartney has revealed he has finally given up smoking cannabis after deciding “enough’s enough”. The star has been an unashamed dope smoker since the 1960s and has been arrested on occasion as well as famously being deported from Japan in 1980. But now the multimillionaire musician – who turns 70 this summer – [...]
This film was made to encourage farmers to grow hemp for the war effort because other industrial fibers, often imported from overseas, were in short supply. The film shows a history of hemp and hemp products, how hemp is grown, and how hemp is processed into rope, cloth, cordage, and other products. As it was [...]
Governor Jan Brewer’s lawsuit against Arizona’s medical marijuana law took a beating today in federal court, where a judge told the state’s lawyers to pick a side on the issue. Brewer and her legal enforcer in the case, state Attorney General Tom Horne, campaigned against Prop 203 before voters passed it and later targeted it [...]
During his run for the presidency, Barack Obama instilled hope in medical marijuana supporters by pledging to respect state laws on the matter. And for the first two years of his term, he was generally faithful to his promise. Yet suddenly, and with no logical explanation, over the past eight months he has become arguably the [...]
Chile’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that the government unconstitutionally revoked a company’s permit to grow medical marijuana. But a lawyer for the government said Chile remains a long way from allowing the production and sale of marijuana for therapeutic purposes. The court ruled unanimously that Chile’s agriculture service unfairly canceled the permit it granted Agrofuturo [...]
The DEA is wrong by not reclassifying marijuana federally as a drug suitable for use as prescriptive medical treatment. I’m not justifying casual, un-needed marijuana use, since studies have repeatedly shown that marijuana is no different than alcohol or tobacco, legal products, in that it can and does cause problems among users, including increased risk [...]
A district judge in Helena has issued a partial injunction against Montana’s new medical marijuana law . The decision prevents several parts of the new law from taking effect, but leaves a a majority of the Legislature’s new medical marijuana law intact. District Judge James Reynolds issued his ruling just before 5pm on Thursday. Among [...]
In the second day of a medical marijuana lawsuit, witnesses in a Helena courtroom attempted to unravel the ramifications of Montana’s recently passed legislation changing the industry. While Senate Bill 423 was an attempt to get a handle on potential abusers of the medication, some doctors say it may have gone too far for those [...]
The folks at CA NORML have released their most recent estimate on the number of medical marijuana patients in California. They put the number at between 750,000 and 1,125,000 people, or 2-3% of the population of the state. Since very few patients are involved in the state ID program, the number has to be estimated, [...]
