NBC NewsBy JoNel Aleccia Months before legal sales of the drug begin, officials in both states are struggling to come up with health and safety rules to govern a menu of marijuana offerings ranging from leafy greens to food and drinks. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
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An Unlikely Defender Of State Pot Laws
Orange County Rep. Dana Rohrabacher Is Hoping More Colleagues Are Starting to See Things His Way. WASHINGTON – For more than a decade, conservative Orange County Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has formed an unusual alliance with liberals on an unexpected topic – the defense of marijuana. Rohrabacher ( R-Huntington Beach ) and his allies have so […]
Assembly Codes Committee Passes Bill to Allow Medicinal Use of Marijuana in New York State
<p>Advocates Urge New York Assembly and Senate to Pass Bill</p> Earlier today, the New York State Assembly Codes Committee passed (A.6357/Gottfried) by a vote of 16 to 6. The bill would alleviate the suffering of thousands of seriously ill New Yorkers by allowing the use of marijuana to treat debilitating, life-threatening illnesses under a doctor’s […]
Colorado House Gives Initial Approval to Marijuana Tax Measure
The Denver PostBy John Ingold Colorado lawmakers spent Monday afternoon trying to find the Goldilocks level for recreational marijuana taxes — an amount neither too high to discourage voters from approving it nor too low to pay the costs of pot legalization. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
Make Money With Pot, Not War
Are we about to see the end of the war on drugs? Following ballot measures last November, producing and selling marijuana are now legal in both Colorado and Washington state. Several other U.S. states have decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, or allowed its medical usage. The latter is also the case in Canada. The financial […]
Man Denied Life-Saving Liver Transplant Due to Medical Marijuana Usage
Pic: Hupu2 (CC) Sick people being condemned to a painful, lingering death due to using a medicinal plant that doesn’t have the blessing of Big Pharma? It’s the American Way! Via Alternet: After being diagnosed with liver cancer in 2009, Norman B. Smith applied to the liver transplant list at Cedar-Sinai hospital. While waiting for […]
Colorado May Tax Marijuana Sales 40% as Lawmakers Design Rules
Bloomberg.comBy Jennifer Oldham Last week Colorado lawmakers set out to create a framework for how the state would become the first in the nation to regulate and tax recreational marijuana sales, including combined levies as high as 40 percent on the newly legal product. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
California Medical Marijuana Regulation Bill Passes Assembly Public Safety Committee
East Bay ExpressBy David Downs A new bill to regulate California’s $ 1.3 billion medical marijuana industry cleared its first hurdle: the Assembly’s public safety committee. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
Marijuana Repeal Considered In Colorado
Associated Press / CBS4By Kristen Wyatt, CBS Radio DENVER — Marijuana legalization could be going back to the ballot in Colorado — a prospect that infuriated marijuana legalization activists Friday. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
San Diego’s Marijuana Confusion Hits a New High
Mayor Demands Answers in San Diego Marijuana Collective Raid: A federal warrant was served at the Gaslamp collective one day after the city council considered a new ordinance to allow distribution of mmj. NBC San DiegoBy R. Stickney While San Diego city leaders work on balanced regulation providing access while protecting neighborhoods, federal agents raided a downtown […]