Cannabis Catch-22

Thursday, September 2, 2010 17:16

Colorado — New legislation regulating Colorado’s budding medical marijuana industry is leaving local dispensary owners and county officials in a grey area, as dispensaries try to meet a new requirement that they cultivate at least 70 per…

Follow The Doctor’s Orders

Thursday, September 2, 2010 16:12

With the passing of Initiative 59 this spring, medical marijuana became legal in the District. Finally, the D.C. Council realized the lunacy of keeping the substance illegal for medical purposes. But GW administrators clearly still fear the reefer, …

Inhaled Marijuana ‘Clearly Has Medical Value’ For Hard to Treat Chronic Pain Conditions

Thursday, September 2, 2010 13:14
Inhaled Marijuana ‘Clearly Has Medical Value’ For Hard to Treat
Chronic Pain Conditions

[Editor's note: This post is excerpted from this week's forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To have NORML's media advisories delivered straight to your in-box, sign up for NORML's free e-zine here.]
Inhaled cannabis reduces pain and improves sleep compared to placebo, and is well tolerated by patients with chronic neuropathy, according to clinical trial data published [...]

No Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Sanford — for Now – Foster’s Daily Democrat

Thursday, September 2, 2010 3:21

No medical marijuana dispensaries in Sanford — for nowFoster’s Daily DemocratSANFORD — It looks like there will not be a medical marijuana dispensary in Sanford, at least not in the foreseeable future. …Primary Organic Therapy Inc. is Approved to…

Weird Drug Politics in the Kentucky Senate Campaign [FEATURE]

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 20:25

Drug policy has become a hot-button issue in the Kentucky US Senate race, albeit in a weird and tangential way. The race pits insurgent tea party/libertarian Republican Rand Paul, the son of anti-prohibitionist US…

Pot Busts — Reading Between The Lines

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 19:28

I’ll bet a beer that most of you would have no problem finding a gin and tonic, if booze was illegal today.
Guys like Al Capone would see to that.  Big Al, they say, was knocking down $60 million per year in the late 1920s from alcohol alone, du…

This Week in History

Wednesday, September 1, 2010 17:27

September 6, 1988: After two hearings, DEA administrative law judge Francis Young recommends shifting marijuana to Schedule II so it can be prescribed as medicine. He says, "It would be unreasonable, arbitrar…

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