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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 [...]

Eli Stokols reports. Jan. 15, 2010.

Eli Stokols reports. Jan. 15, 2010.

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 [...]

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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. [...]

Governor Corzine’s office says he has signed legislation granting patients legal access to marijuana on his final full day in office.

Every new year there is a revival of interest to legislatively legalize some of the most popularly abused substances found in the underground market.  This is especially true of marijuana, which also happens to be addicting. It’s proper name is cannabis sativa.  In previous times, it was simply [...]