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Madison – In 1989, Jacki Rickert of Mondovi weighed just 68 pounds. Marijuana helped her put on weight and relieve the symptoms of her connective tissue disorder, Rickert said Tuesday as she urged lawmakers to make the drug legal for medicinal purposes. “When your doctor looks at you and says, ‘If we cannot get weight [...]

The City Council Is Trying to Regulate Dispensaries Just the Way We Control Bars. There are about 120 Starbucks coffee outlets within the Los Angeles city limits.  According to the most reliable estimates, there are somewhere between 900 and 1,000 medical marijuana dispensaries. Mull over the implications of that comparison and you’re on the [...]

Arkansas — State Sen. Randy Laverty of Jasper says that after the news media reported last month on his proposal to legalize medical marijuana, he got more response than on any issue he’d been associated with in his 15 years as a legislator — telephone calls, e-mails and personal contact. “And it was all positive. [...]

USA — The issue of medical marijuana is a charade. Consider the following: Its destructive power: Nicotine is the most addictive drug in the world and kills 400,000-plus people annually. Marijuana is addicting and more dangerous than nicotine because of the euphoric feeling. It’s seven to 14 times more powerful today than in the 1960s. [...]

The Amherst-area man who believes marijuana cures cancer says he is seeking political refuge in Europe. In a video on his Phoenix Tears website, Rick Simpson said police raided his home Nov. 25 and will charge him in connection with items they seized. “If I return home, I will be arrested and put in jail [...]

California voters could decide whether to legalize marijuana in November after supporters announced Monday that they have more than enough signatures to ensure that it qualifies for the ballot. The petition drive has collected more than 680,000 signatures, said Richard Lee, the measure’s main proponent, about 57% more than the [...]

Medicinal Gardens of Colorado is not your average Fort Collins retail shop. It’s tucked away in a stone cottage on the east edge of the parking lot of the Carriage House Complex, 420 S.  Howes St., with a modest sign showing its location. To get in, customers have to be “buzzed” through [...]

Washington, D.C. — D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray (D) said Monday that he wants to move swiftly to establish regulations for distributing medical marijuana now that Congress has voted to lift restrictions on city drug policy. Gray said the council will use Initiative 59, which voters overwhelmingly approved in 1998, to begin crafting a [...]

The War on Drugs continues, four decades after President Richard Nixon commenced hostilities.  President Barack Obama–the third president in a row to have used illicit substances in his youth–is no drug warrior.  However, he seems unlikely to challenge the disastrous new prohibition. The president has, however, ended the [...]

When told about the Liberal-dominated Senate’s revisions to the government’s latest tough-on-crime bill, the former drug dealer howled with laughter. “They wanna WHAT?” he said incredulously.  “It’s like they’re encouraging grow-ops on reserves.  It’s so crazy, it’s almost like a set-up.” The Harper Tories are furious with the Senate’s changes to Bill C-15, [...]