Wall Street JournalBy Ana Campoy Across the country, the business of growing pot is fast becoming mainstream. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
Legalizing Marijuana For Profit Is A Bad Idea
The push to legalize Marijuana is going Gangham style. In the past several months, 55 percent of voters in Colorado and Washington approved a ballot measure making it legal for medical and nonmedical uses, and a slew of polls indicate that a majority of Americans now support making Marijuana as legal as cigarettes and alcohol. […]
Lottery Winner Puts $1-Million Toward Effort to Legalize Marijuana
National PostBy Sarah Boesveld Bob Erb has been playing the lottery since he was a young pothead in the 1970s, smoking 15 joints a day. Today, Mr. Erb is still crushing 15 joints a day — except now he’s smoking them as a multi-millionaire. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
DEA Cracking Down On Orange County Marijuana Dispensaries
OC WeeklyBy Nick Schou On April 18, the DEA added Santa Ana to its list of cities where it has cracked down on medical marijuana dispensaries with the help of local officials. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
Speakers Debate Legalizing Marijuana
Two leading experts on marijuana legalization squared off Thursday on the implications, merits and economic effects of legalizing the substance in a debate hosted by the Janus Political Union Debates, a sub-group of the Janus Forum. Alex Friedland ’15, fellows director of the Janus Forum, moderated the debate and began by asking the two speakers […]
Attorney General Eric Holder: Marijuana’s effect on children a factor
Associated PressBy Frederic J. Frommer WASHINGTON (AP) — How it affects children will be one factor the Justice Department weighs as it determines how to respond to the legalization of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado, Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Thursday. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
Court Rules for Immigrant in Deportation Case
“The social sharing of a small amount of marijuana” by immigrants lawfully in the United States does not require their automatic deportation, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. “Sharing a small amount of marijuana for no remuneration, let alone possession with intent to do so, does not fit easily into the everyday understanding of trafficking, […]
Federal Measure Introduced to Form National Commission on Federal Marijuana Policy
Bill Filed to Create National Marijuana Commission WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bill that would establish a National Commission on Marijuana Policy was introduced in the US Congress last week. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
Colorado Hemp Grower to Plant Historic First U.S. crop in Decades
The Denver PostBy Steve Raabe Ryan Loflin plans to make history, becoming the nation’s first commercial-scale hemp grower in almost 60 years. In a few days, he will plant his hemp crop on a farm in the far southeastern corner of Colorado. Loflin and a handful of other growers are set to capitalize on hemp’s […]
Bill Introduced to Define Drug-Endangered Children
Proposed legislation cites federal law in defining when a child is endangered by a caregiver’s use or possession of drugs, potentially trumping Colorado law and making it illegal to possess, smoke or grow pot near children or in their homes. Senate Bill 278, which was introduced Thursday and assigned to the Senate Health and Human […]