Jacob Sullum
According to an article in the evangelical news magazine World, "marijuana is losing its stigma," largely because of "its claim to have medicinal purposes" and "the perception that everyone uses it." The p…
Posts Tagged ‘medical marijuana’
NORML’s Weekly Legislative Round Up
March 16, 2012 | 1 views | No Comments
Marijuana law reform legislation is pending in nearly 30 states this 2012 legislative session. Is your state among them? Find out here. More importantly, have you taken the time to call or write your state elected officials this year and urged them to support these pending reforms? If not, NORML has provided you with all of the tools to do so via our capwiz ‘Take Action Center’ here. (FYI: NORML’s capwiz page is specific to legislation only, not ballot initiative efforts. A summary pending 2012 ballot initiative campaigns may be [...]
Why Did Vancouver Police Destroy This Private Property?
March 9, 2012 | 4 views | No Comments
Jeremiah Vandermeer
Last month, for the first time in Vancouver's history, police raided a medical marijuana dispensary within the city limits. During the raid, for reasons unknown, members of the VPD drug squad destroyed some expensive propert…
Posted in NewsMarijuana Growing Standards, Not Barriers
March 8, 2012 | 3 views | No Comments
Recently, Health Canada met with med pot industry representatives and individual dispensary spokespeople, of which a certain Marc Boris St. Maurice was one. According to St. Maurice, this exchange occurred:
Health Canada: “What are the minimum requirem…
Over Two-Dozen Controlled Trials Demonstrate Cannabinoids’ “Statistically Significant Pain Relieving Effects”
March 7, 2012 | 0 views | No Comments
[Editor's note: This post is excerpted from this week's forthcoming NORML weekly media advisory. To have NORML's news alerts and legislative advisories delivered straight to your in-box, sign up here.] Cannabis and its active constituents appear to be safe and modestly effective treatments in patients suffering from a variety of chronic pain conditions, including neuropathy (pain due to nerve damage), according to a literature review to be published in The Clinical Journal of Pain. An investigator from New York University, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, conducted a PubMed search [...]
Posted in NewsGov. Martinez OKs Bill Creating MMJ Fund
March 6, 2012 | 19 views | No Comments
Neither Ripley nor countless New Mexico residents would believe it, but Republican Gov. Susana Martinez signed a marijuana bill on Monday. Martinez, who was a prosecutor for 25 years, spent half her lifetime fighting the war on drugs. She took office as governor after the state already had a law permitting marijuana to be used [...]
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