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Hospital Prescribes Cancer Patient Pot, Then Refuses Him a Life-Saving Transplant For Smoking It
Norman Smith was within two months of receiving a liver transplant when the same hospital that prescribed him the pot de-listed him. Now, he may die as the result.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles has denied a liver transplant to a pat…
Advocates File Lawsuit Demanding Federal Government Assess Medical Value Of Cannabis
A coalition of public interest advocacy groups filed suit today in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to compel the Obama administration to respond to a nine-year-old petition to reclassify marijuana under federal law.
The suit was filed by attorneys Joe Elford of Americans for Safe Access (ASA) and Michael Kennedy of [...]
California Supreme Court to Take Up Medical Marijuana Limits Issue
The California Supreme Court agreed to revisit the question of how many plants and how much marijuana medical marijuana patients may legally possess. It did so by taking up a prosecutor’s appeal of a May California Appellate Court decision that found a 2003 law designed to make the state’s medical marijuana law operational conflicted with [...]
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