Last week, Cannabis Now Magazine reported on a CBS poll which showed Americans were evenly for and against marijuana legalization, at 47% each. Then, on December 5, Quinnipiac University released new poll results that tell a different story: that the majority of Americans do support legalization, at 51%. This is the first national poll Quinnipiac [...]
Chris Williams was offered a chance at 10 years in prison if he agreed to plead guilty to federal marijuana and weapons charges. Instead, he is facing life in prison after choosing to go to trial to fight for his state-given right to provide medical marijuana in Montana, and was found guilty of eight drug [...]
Support for the legalization of marijuana has finally achieved the same levels of opposition to legalization. This latest development in the continuing upward trend for legalization in the U.S. comes out of the results of a CBS poll which shows 47% of Americans think marijuana should be legal while another 47% think it should remain [...]
Should the benefits of medical marijuana apply to children’s medicine? For years now, awareness and support for the use of medical marijuana by cancer patients (among other sufferers) has been on the rise, especially very recently. The controversy is far from over, however, as a story out of Oregon about a parent giving cannabis to [...]
Blow to Medical Marijuana Reform in Montana IR-124 passes, severely curtailing Montana law Cannabis Now has learned that IR-124, Montana’s referendum on the draconian SB 423 medical marijuana law, has passed. The Great Falls Tribune reports that Montanans voted for the referendum 39,695 to 28,804.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA INC. (MJNA) began the trading session with a price of US$0.10 and throughout the session made a new 52-week high of US$0.12. When day-trade ended, MJNA finally soared US$0.018 or 17.95% to US$0.115. Marijuana is available legally through medically controlled outlets in more than 15 states in the USA. It looks like companies [...]
(October 23, Helena) The Montana Supreme Court today denied a motion filed by the Montana Cannabis Industry Association in its constitutional challenge of the state’s medical marijuana law. The motion asked the Supreme Court to reconsider a recent decision overturning significant parts of a lower court’s injunction against the law. As a result of the [...]
Last night, television news show ‘60 Minutes‘ aired “Rocky Mountain High” wherein they give the Colorado medical marijuana industry a surprisingly fair shake. “If you want to know what legalized marijuana might look like, the place to go is Colorado, which has the most developed medical marijuana industry in the country,” writes Steve Kroft in [...]
Mystery accompanied the federal Justice Department’s crackdown on California’s state-legal medical marijuana industry since Oct. 7, when prosecutors formally declared their war on weed. Who was behind the feds deciding it was time to shut down hundreds of California dispensaries — rogue prosecutors? Drug warriors in the Attorney General’s office? Eric Holder himself, despite multiple [...]
From: http://www.bigskypatientcare.com Dear Patients, As most of you know, we were robbed by masked gunmen (the Feds) on Monday. What you need to know: 1. This was FEDERAL – not a state raid. WE ARE COMPLETELY COMPLIANT WITH MONTANA LAW. Under Federal law, any amount of marijuana is illegal. 2. They did not want access [...]
