Category: Marijuana News

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General marijuana news and commentary

August 5, 2013
08/05/2013
Marijuana Adventure: Swashbuckling for Sativa Strains

Marijuana Adventure: Swashbuckling for Sativa Strains

Over the last year or so, I’ve read about, and on occasion met with, the newly-minted ‘cannabis CEOs’ in America (men and women who’re at the vanguard...
August 2, 2013
08/02/2013
Illinois Becomes Twenty-First Medical Marijuana State

Illinois Becomes Twenty-First Medical Marijuana State

Illinois became the latest state to allow for the medical use of marijuana Thursday, when Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed into law House Bill 1, the Compassionate Use...
August 2, 2013
08/02/2013
Law Change Leads to Decline in Misdemeanor Drug Arrests

Law Change Leads to Decline in Misdemeanor Drug Arrests

The annual number of misdemeanor drug arrests has fallen by nearly 50 percent in California in five years, largely due to the imposition of a 2010 law reducing minor marijuana possession...
By: NORML
August 2, 2013
08/02/2013
Uruguay House Passes Marijuana Legalization Bill

Uruguay House Passes Marijuana Legalization Bill

The Uruguayan lower house of Parliament passed a bill that would create the world’s first legal, regulated marijuana markets Wednesday night. The bill passed on a vote...
August 2, 2013
08/02/2013
Study: Cannabis Associated with Less Risk of Traffic Accident than Various Medicinal Drugs

Study: Cannabis Associated with Less Risk of Traffic Accident than Various Medicinal Drugs

A driver’s risk of being severely injured in an accident is highest after having either consumed alcohol alone, resulting in a blood/alcohol level above .08, or in...
By: NORML
August 2, 2013
08/02/2013
Ohio Initiative Campaign for Medical Marijuana is Underway

Ohio Initiative Campaign for Medical Marijuana is Underway

Medical marijuana backers in the Buckeye State hope the third time is the charm. After twice failing to move initiative efforts in the past couple of years,...
August 1, 2013
08/01/2013
It Begins: Someone Wants to Start “Marlboro of Marijuana”

It Begins: Someone Wants to Start “Marlboro of Marijuana”

We all knew it was coming, self-proclaimed genius Brian Laoruangroch, 29, wants to run a marijuana business like a tobacco business. His goal is to become the “Marlboro...
August 1, 2013
08/01/2013
Judge Threatens to Arrest Observers for Advocacy in Hearing

Judge Threatens to Arrest Observers for Advocacy in Hearing

In a weird and wholly-inappropriate display of rage today in the downtown courthouse, Judge Peter Gallagher ranted at defendant Victor Marion for choosing to have medical cannabis...
August 1, 2013
08/01/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.07.31)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.07.31)

A dispensary is now open for business in the nation’s capital; several dozen are coming to Arizona; dispensary and cultivation battles continue in California; Massachusetts advocates prepare...
August 1, 2013
08/01/2013
Two Michigan Towns to Vote on Marijuana Decriminalization

Two Michigan Towns to Vote on Marijuana Decriminalization

The Michigan communities of Ferndale and Jackson will vote on local marijuana decriminalization initiatives, backers said this week, as they handed in petitions full of registered voter...
July 31, 2013
07/31/2013
Will Uruguay Be First Country to Legalize Cannabis?

Will Uruguay Be First Country to Legalize Cannabis?

As soon as tomorrow afternoon, votes are expected in the Uruguayan House of Representatives which will cast the country into the lead to become the first country...
July 31, 2013
07/31/2013
With MMJ Legal in NH, Lawmakers Consider Decriminalization

With MMJ Legal in NH, Lawmakers Consider Decriminalization

An article on seacoastonline.com reports that New Hampshire lawmakers have begun to consider the decriminalization (which the article mistakenly refers to as legalization) of the possession of small...
July 31, 2013
07/31/2013
Expected Soon: More Marijuana Decriminalization in Michigan

Expected Soon: More Marijuana Decriminalization in Michigan

As part of an ongoing cannabis law reform effort in Michigan, voters in three more Michigan cities will soon have the chance to do what their elected...
July 31, 2013
07/31/2013
MPP NASCAR Ad Pulled

MPP NASCAR Ad Pulled

MPP’s video ad that began airing Friday on a jumbotron outside the NASCAR Brickyard 400 was pulled later that afternoon by the media company that owns the video screen. Grazie Media, which had...
July 31, 2013
07/31/2013
Washington DC Finally Selling Medical Marijuana

Washington DC Finally Selling Medical Marijuana

DC has seen its first legal marijuana sale under the city’s medical marijuana law, enacted in 1998 by voters but blocked by Congress for most of that...
July 30, 2013
07/30/2013
SSDP Presents Campus Drug Policy Gradebook

SSDP Presents Campus Drug Policy Gradebook

SSDP (Students for Sensible Drug Policy) recently announced their Campus Drug Policy Gradebook. The drug and alcohol policies of the top 300 schools in the country according...
By: Lateralus
July 30, 2013
07/30/2013
CNN Video: Cheryl Shuman VS Rehab Profiteer

CNN Video: Cheryl Shuman VS Rehab Profiteer

In a CNN video from Piers Morgan Live, Morgan Spurlock (filling in for Piers Morgan) talked to Cheryl Shuman, Aimee Shuman, and Howard Samuels about marijuana. Cheryl...
July 30, 2013
07/30/2013
Obama Administration Spending $180,000 Per Day to Undermine State Marijuana Laws

Obama Administration Spending $180,000 Per Day to Undermine State Marijuana Laws

On Huffington Post, Americans for Safe Access Executive Director Steph Sherer discusses her association’s report “What’s the Cost?”, which details the expenses of the federal government’s interference...
July 30, 2013
07/30/2013
Cartel Violence Flares in Western Mexican State

Cartel Violence Flares in Western Mexican State

The Mexican government may have scored a victory earlier this month with the arrest of Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the leader of the violent and powerful Zetas...
July 30, 2013
07/30/2013
Morocco Considering Marijuana Legalization

Morocco Considering Marijuana Legalization

Politicians in Morocco are considering marijuana legalization in an attempt to draw in foreign investments, reduce a record trade deficit and “help pacify inhabitants of a historically...