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The City Council’s Lackadaisical Approach to Medical Marijuana Has Resulted in Clinics Sprouting Like, Well, Weeds. This is Los Angeles, where laws that seem sensible on the first quick reading turn out to be studded with exceptions or are enforced sporadically.  Consider billboards.  The city’s porous legal barriers encourage rogue sign companies to ignore the [...]

Colorado has joined California to become one of only two states that have a semblance of a medical-marijuana distribution system, the executive director of National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws ( NORML ) said this week. “But the difference is stark and profound,” Allen St.  Pierre said in a telephone interview from Washington, [...]

Wisconsin — Hundreds of medical marijuana supporters rallied Sunday at the State Capitol for legislation that would make Wisconsin the 14th state to legalize cannabis for treatment of debilitating illnesses. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, and Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, are co-sponsors of the newly drafted Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act, which would protect Wisconsin patients [...]

Augusta, Maine — New opposition has emerged in the debate about Question 5, a proposed expansion of the state’s medical-marijuana law that would allow nonprofit dispensaries to distribute the drug. Don LaRouche, of Madison, a medical-marijuana patient, and the Maine Prosecutors Association recently took public stands against the measure, which will be on the Nov. [...]

Los Angeles, CA — This is Los Angeles, where laws that seem sensible on the first quick reading turn out to be studded with exceptions or are enforced sporadically. Consider billboards. The city’s porous legal barriers encourage rogue sign companies to ignore the law and then to sue when they are challenged. They often win [...]

Detroit — A medical marijuana symposium at Wayne State University on Saturday aimed to get accurate information to doctors, lawyers and law enforcement about Michigan’s medicinal marijuana law. But the majority of the 227 people who showed up were patients or people looking to learn more about the law. That suited the WSU law students, [...]

Montana — Jeff Swensen did not tie down his legs late Tuesday night before climbing in bed to watch his favorite television shows. A car accident when he was 16 paralyzed him from the nipples down, which makes his legs “flop uncontrollably.” He used to worry about falling asleep in front of the screen without [...]

The Marijuana Party of Canada’s founder was on hand to help celebrate the 10th anniversary of medical marijuana distribution in Montreal. The past 10 years have been a bit of an uphill battle, Marc-Boris Saint-Maurice said. Medical marijuana is available to members of Montreal’s Compassion Centre where the celebration, hosted by two original founders of [...]

Los Angeles, CA — At hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, cash is changing hands, typically about $45 for an eighth of an ounce. The dispensary owners call it a donation because state law requires their stores to operate as nonprofit collectives. But their critics — police, the district attorney and the newly [...]

Nova Scotia Mounties say claims that someone recently imported 100 kilograms of high-quality hashish into Eastern Canada are being checked out. In its April edition, Cannabis Culture, an online magazine that covers hashish issues, including advocacy, published an article whose author said he was lucky enough to “get his hands on 100 kg” of top-of-the-line [...]