<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 […]
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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
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 […]
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 […]
Medical Pot for Illinois Patients
In 1976, the idea that marijuana could be a medicine was generally taken as laughable. Then a glaucoma patient named Robert Randall won a court ruling that he needed the drug to keep from going blind. His case started a movement that could finally make headway here. The Illinois House is set to vote this […]
Medical Pot Grower Sues Cops That Killed His Plants
Over a year after being acquitted of felony marijuana cultivation charges, Colorado pot patient Kaleb Young wants to be compensated for the plants that the Larimer County Sheriff’s Dept killed in a 2010 raid. Young is also suing the department for damaged cultivation equipment. In all, he’s hoping the authorities cough up $ 210,000. […]
Medical Marijuana Goes On Sale In Czech Pharmacies
Medical marijuana legally went on sale Tuesday in pharmacies across the Czech Republic for patients suffering from cancer, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis or psoriasis. The new law does not foresee health insurance coverage for marijuana, touted by some as a medical miracle drug. The prescription-only drug formally became legal on Monday, but was virtually unavailable as most […]
Medical Marijuana: A NY Doctor’s Perspective
Dr. Craig Blinderman, a palliative care specialist at New York Presbyterian Hospital, is one of the New York physicians intrigued by the potential medical marijuana holds for treating pain. “What we’re trying to do is restore some functioning, whether it’s physical or mental or whatever,” Blinderman said. There’s actually a lot of research that suggests that […]