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A bud from a medical marijuana plant grown legally in a basement on Grand Rapids’ Northwest Side.When it comes to regulating medical marijuana, Grand Rapids city commissioners prefer a homegrown approach. Commissioners today decided to move ahead with a set of zoning regulations that will treat medical marijuana growers, also known as caregivers, as home-based [...]

In his 1971 State of the Union speech, President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer, prompting passage of the National Cancer Act, aimed at making the “conquest of cancer a national crusade.” Just four years later, scientists from the National Cancer Institute published a study demonstrating that a group of compounds taken from a common, [...]

Laws against cannabis have failed to cut its use around the world and have led to policies that are intrusive, socially divisive and expensive, according to an international group of drug policy experts. In a book published on Tuesday looking at cannabis policies, the experts said that, while the drug harmed some users, it had [...]

ACC member and medical marijuana patient Chris Butts had an excellent letter published in The Anniston Star today. Way to go Chris!! Medical marijuana in Alabama Again this year, a medical marijuana bill (HB 207) is before the Alabama Legislature. Year in and year out, it seems we have a bill introduced that could drastically [...]

Many people think they need a large space in order to grow marijuana. They picture plants 5 feet tall, spreading out several feet — those plants are real, but so are plants growing in 8 or 12 inch containers, in a row, under 4 T5 fluorescents in a small closet (or even just a part [...]

Hardly a day goes by without Mason Tvert, head of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), going after some individual or institution standing in the way of legalizing marijuana use for adults in Colorado and beyond. Still, his latest target is a surprise: Starbucks, the ubiquitous peddler of a highly addictive substance — coffee. read [...]

It’s becoming difficult to keep up with all the marijuana bills being filed at statehouses around the county. read more

CANNABIS CULTURE – In a unanimous ruling, the California Supreme Court has affirmed an appeals court ruling throwing out statewide limits on the possession and cultivation of medical marijuana. Overruling the appeals court decision, the Court left in place a voluntary ID card program that protects patients from arrest, citing a similar ruling in San [...]

“It was alleged that the only way I could make my fortune was to become an advocate and, still worse, an ecclesiastical advocate, because I was considered to be gifted in speaking. If the question had been given due consideration I should have been allowed to do as I wished and become a physician, in [...]

US House Rep. Ron Paul says the CIA has has in effect carried out a “coup” against the US government, and the intelligence agency needs to be “taken out.” Speaking to an audience of like-minded libertarians at a Campaign for Liberty regional conference in Atlanta this past weekend, the Texas Republican said: read more