Justice Department Shoots Down Cultivation

Saturday, July 2, 2011 23:48

With marijuana sold openly at retail stores throughout California, some advocates, pot growers and even city officials believed authorized commercial cultivation could be next. But the Obama administration dashed that notion this week, making clear it …

Pot Activist Smokes Out Doctors

Saturday, July 2, 2011 21:47

Canadian Medical Association says most physicians not informed enough to prescribe medical marijuana Toronto activist Matt Mernagh is calling the medical marijuana program a “disaster.” “In my trial, the judge concluded that less than…

DOJ Memo: RI Dispensaries Could Face Prosecution

Saturday, July 2, 2011 21:43

The U.S. Department of Justice has warned that large-scale medical marijuana dispensaries in Rhode Island could face federal prosecution for violating drug and money-laundering laws. A memo obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday says that marijua…

Latest DOJ Memo Emphasizes Why We Must Pass HR 2306, The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act Of 2011

Friday, July 1, 2011 13:38
Latest DOJ Memo Emphasizes Why We Must Pass HR 2306, The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act Of 2011

On Wednesday the Obama administration for the second time in two years issued a Department of Justice memorandum regarding the state-sanctioned use and production of medical cannabis. However, unlike the release of the 2009 ‘Ogden memo,’ which the administration promoted with great fanfare, the issuance of this week’s ‘Cole memorandum’ is strategically being downplayed by [...]

Arrived: DOJ Memo On Medical Marijuana

Friday, July 1, 2011 5:49
Arrived: DOJ Memo On Medical Marijuana

The Star-Ledger in New Jersey published the long awaited ‘clarifying’ memo on medical marijuana last night from the Department of Justice.
It appears from the letter that the Obama administration’s DOJ is going to continue to walk the fine line between allowing ’self preservation’ for medical cannabis patients (i.e., a patient can possess and cultivate [...]

Judge Blocks Montana From Banning Sale of MMJ

Friday, July 1, 2011 0:13

A judge on Thursday blocked Montana from prohibiting commercial medical marijuana operations, saying that ban on profits from pot sales will restrict access to patients and deny people the right to seek health care. Helena District Judge James Reynolds…

Obama Administration Clarifies MMJ Enforcement

Thursday, June 30, 2011 23:13

New Jersey’s medical marijuana program is not likely to run afoul of federal law if its operation is kept small and controlled and doesn’t allow growers to create “industrial marijuana cultivation centers,’’ according to an eagerly-awaite…

It’s Official: Obama Administration’s Public Housing Policy Discriminates Against Medical Marijuana Patients

Thursday, June 30, 2011 11:59
It’s Official: Obama Administration’s Public Housing Policy Discriminates Against Medical Marijuana Patients

One the many gray legal areas and conflicts with existing federal Cannabis Prohibition laws created by state medical cannabis laws and their protections for qualified patients is receiving proper media sunlight this week via the Willamette Weekly’s expose on a memo recently circulated to the residents of a ’section eight’ housing unit in Portland, Oregon [...]

Verdict to Decide Fate of Dutch Cannabis Coffee Shops

Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:50

The coffee shops of Maastricht do a roaring trade with foreign visitors, accounting for an estimated three-quarters of all custom. Just a kilometer from the Belgian border and convenient for nearby Germany, the city’s geographic position has made…

Coalition Calls for New Rules on Medical Marijuana

Wednesday, June 29, 2011 20:42

Comparing the explosion of medical marijuana use in Michigan to the “wild, wild West,” a coalition of police, prosecutors and Republican legislators called Tuesday for broad new rules on how the drug can be obtained and sold or even banned….


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