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Richmond, VA. — Del. Harvey B. Morgan acknowledges he might not seem a likely proponent of decriminalizing marijuana and making the drug available medically. He’s 79, a Republican and he’s never touched the stuff. Surprising even his friends, Morgan has proposed bills that would ease penalties for marijuana possession and allow doctors to prescribe marijuana [...]

State Sen.  J.  Kalani English will probably grab a few headlines when he introduces two bills in the legislative session this week: one to legalize medical marijuana dispensaries and the other to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. His marijuana reformation bills are modeled after laws already in place in other states.  On Friday, [...]

We missed this when it first aired but it’s worth mentioning that the folks over at KSDK actually did a very respectable job tackling the issue of medical marijuana last week. The station profiled Don Yarber, the 70-year-old mayor of Cottleville, Missouri, who supports prescription pot because his wife used it to treat the side-effects [...]

California — The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to adopt a comprehensive medical marijuana ordinance that clamps strict controls on dispensaries, which have spread with a velocity that stunned city officials and angered some residents. Settling the last controversial issue on its list, the council decided to require the stores to locate at least [...]

Los Angeles, CA — The Los Angeles City Council is poised to vote on a medical marijuana ordinance after months of hammering out criteria that would shutter hundreds of dispensaries. Council members will take up the issue once again Tuesday, and they will be presented two drafts, both of which include capping the number of [...]

USA — Eight in 10 Americans support legalizing marijuana for medical use and nearly half favor decriminalizing the drug more generally, both far higher than a decade ago. With New Jersey this week poised to become the 14th state to legalize medical marijuana, 81 percent in this national ABC News/Washington Post poll support the idea, [...]

Let’s get this marijuana thing over with, shall we? California took the next step toward decriminalization earlier this week in a 4-3 vote by the Assembly Public Safety Committee – the first legislative body in the nation supporting recreational pot use. AB390 would overhaul of the state’s marijuana laws and allow possession, sale and cultivation [...]

Atlantic Beach, Orlando and Tallahassee Have Joined Jacksonville Beach. A longtime effort to decriminalize marijuana possession in Jacksonville Beach has expanded to Atlantic Beach, as well as to Orlando and Tallahassee. The Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy launched the Atlantic Beach effort last month after advocates saw that many people who wanted to [...]

New Jersey — Born without fingers and toes, Jack O’Brien faces crushing neuropathic pain. He can only sustain short walks on his deformed feet and the shooting pain up and down his arms and legs awakens him each morning. “It’s getting worse and worse,” said O’Brien, 55, a disabled fishing-boat captain from Laurel Lake, N.J. [...]