<p> New Mexico Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Medical Advisory Board Will Hear the Petition, Tomorrow, in Santa Fe</p> <p> Psychiatrists, Military Veterans and Other Patients Scheduled to Testify at the Hearing, Asking the Governor and the Secretary of Health Not to Take Away Their Medicine</p> (Santa Fe, NM) – Tomorrow, from 1 to 5 […]
New Mexico Department of Health’s Medical Cannabis Medical Advisory Board Unanimously Recommends to Keep PTSD as a Qualifying Condition
<p> The Final Decision Rests in the Hands of the Acting Secretary of Health</p> (Santa Fe, NM) – Today, the New Mexico’s Medical Cannabis Program’s Medical Advisory Board unanimously recommended to the Acting Secretary of Health to keep PTSD as qualifying condition and to deny Dr. William Ulwelling’s petition to remove PTSD from the list […]
Washington I-502
November 6, 2012 No This is the law that was passed by the voters in Washington State legalizing and regulating marijuana. Read the law. Drug Policy Alliance – Medical Marijuana
Colorado Amendment 64
November 6, 2012 No This is the law that was passed by the voters in Colorado legalizing and regulating marijuana. Read the law (PDF). Drug Policy Alliance – Medical Marijuana
First N.J. Medical Marijuana Alternative Treatment Center to Open Today in Montclair
<p> Patients and Advocates Overjoyed to Have Safe and Legal Access to Medical Marijuana</p> read more Drug Policy Alliance – Medical Marijuana
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Rules that DEA Does Not Have to Reconsider Marijuana’s Schedule I Status
<p> DPA Statement: Feds Are Creating a Catch-22 For Research and Policy</p> On Tuesday, January 22, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in a case challenging the Drug Enforcement Administration’s designation of marijuana as a Schedule I substance. The court was to decide whether the DEA followed its […]
Legislation to Protect Medical Marijuana States Introduced
<p> Bill Would Remove Marijuana from Schedule I and Halt Federal Government Interference With State Medical Marijuana Regulation</p> WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced legislation that would recognize the medicinal use of marijuana and remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. The issue of regulating medical marijuana would be returned to […]
Ethan Nadelmann: The White House Experiments With Weed
Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, explains that recent marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington isn't simple. The Federal response (or lack thereof) will determine how the policy is actualized. Drug Policy Alliance – Medical Marijuana
Medical Marijuana Bill Introduced in New York State Senate & Assembly
<p>Legislation Would End the Needless Suffering of Thousands of Seriously Ill New Yorkers</p> <p>Statement from Drug Policy Alliance’s Julie Netherland</p> Today, New York State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried and Senator Diane Savino introduced a bill that would create one of the nation’s most tightly regulated medical marijuana programs. read more Drug Policy Alliance – Medical Marijuana
Maryland Enacts Law Allowing Academic Studies of Medical Marijuana
<p>New Law Unlikely to Provide Patients Access to Medicine Absent Changes in Federal Policy<br /> <br /> Statement from Drug Policy Alliance's Amanda Reiman</p> Today, Maryland enacted a law allowing approved academic research institutions in that state to establish investigational, research-oriented medical marijuana studies. Unlike 18 other states that have adopted medical marijuana laws that […]