The New Jersey State Senate voted Monday to amend the medical marijuana law that Chris Christie had conditionally vetoed Friday. The revised measure allows marijuana to be distributed to ill children in edible form and permits growers to cultivate more than three strains…. High Times
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Colorado Patients Protest Medical Pot Registry Leak
Protesters wore paper bags over their heads and carried signs expressing outrage over security breaches in Colorado’s medical marijuana registry Wednesday. The protesters, roughly a dozen medical pot patients, are insisting that the Colorado Department of Health and… High Times
Application Deadline Looming For Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Massachusetts
Associated Press BOSTON — Anyone hoping to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Massachusetts has until Thursday to hand-deliver their initial application to the state Department of Public Health. Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
Medical Cannabis Industry Nationwide Update
Medical marijuana wars continue in California, a Michigan town gets intrusive, Nevada prepares to rake in the dough from dispensaries, and Washington patients organize in the face of legalization. Let’s get to it: Medical Marijuana News – THCbiz
The Federal Medical Marijuana Patent
Now, I have read extensively about the War on Drugs, the history of drugs, the science, the legal policy–and even the government weed grown at the University of Mississippi!–but this is the first I have read about a patent on medical marijuana as a neuroprotectant, which is held by the United States Department of Health […]
Medical Strain of the Month: Kush
At a recent make-your-own pizza party hosted by an old friend, I rolled up a fat joint from my private stash and passed it around just before the first pie emerged from the oven. A beautifully grown, perfectly cured, 100 percent organic, resin-coated wonder str… High Times
Quinn Signs Illinois Medical Marijuana Bill Into Law
Gov. Pat Quinn today signed a bill legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes in Illinois that supporters say is the strictest in the nation. Jim Champion, a military veteran from Somonauk who suffers from multiple sclerosis, joined the governor at a bill signing ceremony at the University of Chicago. He told of the relief […]
Sanjay Gupta Now Supports Medical Cannabis
Dr. Sanjay Gupta has added his voice to the ever-growing call for marijuana as medicine. CNN’s Emmy award-winning chief medical correspondent, who was considered for the post of Surgeon General by President Obama, wrote an article titled “Why I Would Vote No o… High Times
Fla. Medical Marijuana Petition Pushes For 2014
Michael Derigo arrived home from a trip to the grocery store June 25 to find half a dozen police cars surrounding his mobile home in Gibsonton. A neighbor had complained about his marijuana plants. Since he was diagnosed with AIDS in 2004 and started on drugs to suppress it, Derigo, 59, has grown marijuana plants […]
New Jersey Medical Pot Program Most Expensive in Country
An in-depth review by theNew Jersey Star-Ledgerhas revealed that the overall cost for medical marijuana patients in New Jersey is higher than any other medical pot state allowing retail sales. The costs analyzed involve patients becoming legally eligible f… High Times