Advocates Applaud Ongoing Action by Department of Health to Improving New York’s Medical Marijuana Program NEW YORK—Today, the New York State Department of Health announced that they will expand New York’s beleaguered medical marijuana program by adding chronic pain as a qualifying condition under New York’s Compassionate Care Law. This decision by the Department of […]
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NY: State Presses Onward With Medical Marijuana Program Expansions
The state Department of Health on Tuesday officially filed amendments and proposed rules for New York’s medical marijuana program that will allow it to authorize nurse practitioners and physician assistants to certify patients. Those expansions are not surprising and conform with proposals DOH issued in August. The department also said it expects to make a […]
Recreational Marijuana Approved In Four States, Medical Marijuana In Three Others
San Francisco – Americans across the country voted Tuesday for the right to inhale without going to jail, legalizing recreational marijuana in four states, and medical marijuana in three others. In California, where medical marijuana is already legal, voters approved recreational pot, a major coup for backers of pot legalization. The new laws make pot […]
North Dakota Voters Give Green Light To Medical Marijuana
Fargo – More than half the states in the United States of America have legalized some form of medical marijuana. North Dakota is one of them. Voters decided to pass Initiated Statutory Measure 5, or the North Dakota Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative, on Tuesday. The measure needed a simple majority to succeed and it netted […]
North Dakota Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Medical Marijuana
2016 Election Shaping Up as Watershed Moment for Movement to End Marijuana Prohibition North Dakota voters have approved Measure 5, which legalizes the medical use of marijuana for conditions such as cancer, AIDS, hepatitis C, ALS, glaucoma, and epilepsy, and other debilitating medical conditions. Patients will be permitted to possess up to 3 ounces of […]
Florida Becomes 1st State in the South to Approve Medical Marijuana
2016 Election Shaping Up as Watershed Moment for Movement to End Marijuana Prohibition Florida voters have approved the state’s medical marijuana initiative, Amendment 2. This victory makes Florida, with its huge population and bellwether status in American politics, the first state in the South to adopt a medical marijuana law. November 8, 2016 Drug Policy […]
Four Reasons Medical Cannabis Will Likely Pass In Florida This Year
This coming Election Day, nearly 20 percent of American states will vote on whether to legalize marijuana. In exactly a week, we’ll know whether Florida voters joined the legal-pot club. For the second straight election, Orlando superlawyer John Morgan has backed a massive campaign to legalize medical marijuana for patients with debilitating illnesses such as […]
Elected Officials, Clinicians, Patients, and Advocates Demand Medical Cannabis Access for New Mexicans Struggling with Opioids
Expert Advisory Board Recommends Adding Opioid Use Disorder for Medical Cannabis in New Mexico SANTA FE, New Mexico — Today pain specialists, people recovering from addiction, community members, and drug policy reformers joined together to call for the inclusion of medical cannabis in New Mexico’s response to heroin and opioids. State lawmakers Representative Debbie Armstrong […]
Nearly 80 Percent Of Floridians Support Legal Medical Marijuana
Two years ago, Florida voters just barely missed a 60 percent threshold to legalize medical marijuana in the state. That won’t happen this November – at least not if a new poll on the measure from the University of North Florida is even close to accurate. UNF’s survey, released this morning, finds that 77 percent […]
Medical Marijuana Advocacy
“There was a time in the United States when extracts of cannabis were almost as commonly used for medicinal purposes as is aspirin today,” wrote Solomon Snyder in a 1971 book entitled Uses of Marijuana. In fact, the history of marijuana medical use predates the written word. Every civilization since the dawn of man has […]