Category: Medical Marijuana

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Medical marijuana news and commentary

July 23, 2013
07/23/2013
Medbox Expands Into Illinois, Nevada, New York and Oregon

Medbox Expands Into Illinois, Nevada, New York and Oregon

Medbox will begin consulting operations in Illinois, Nevada, New York and Oregon, where legislation has recently allowed for medical marijuana dispensary operations. Medbox recently had great success...
July 23, 2013
07/23/2013
Medical Marijuana Push Gears Up in Kentucky

Medical Marijuana Push Gears Up in Kentucky

Kentucky state Senator Perry Clark (D-Louisville) is no quitter. Thwarted twice before in efforts to get a medical marijuana bill moving in Frankfort, Clark and supporters are...
July 23, 2013
07/23/2013
Citizen Lobbying Works

Citizen Lobbying Works

Do you remember AB 2312, a bill Assemblymember Tom Amminao (D-SF) in the California legislature last year? AB 2312 would have created a badly-needed regulatory framework for...
July 22, 2013
07/22/2013
Settlement Reached in Arkansas Marijuana Machine Lawsuit

Settlement Reached in Arkansas Marijuana Machine Lawsuit

Jerry Cox, president of an Arkansas conservative “family values” group that campaigned against legalizing medical marijuana, agreed not to refer in certain ways to Medicine Dispensing Systems...
July 22, 2013
07/22/2013
States Require Testing Marijuana for Safety, Potency

States Require Testing Marijuana for Safety, Potency

Just as marijuana reform advocates predicted, marijuana in a legal market will be safer for users. In response to Colorado and Washington’s legalization laws, laboratories are springing...
July 22, 2013
07/22/2013
Nevada Medical Marijuana Users Still Worry About DUI

Nevada Medical Marijuana Users Still Worry About DUI

Nevada medical marijuana users are concerned as the state’s dispensaries open for business in 2014 that they could easily violate Nevada’s DUI standard; driving with more than 2...
July 19, 2013
07/19/2013
Add Cannabis to Your Culinary Menu

Add Cannabis to Your Culinary Menu

I have had the pleasure of sharing several of my favorite recipes here on weedist. As I tried to decide what to share next, I had a...
By: Anna Diaz
July 19, 2013
07/19/2013
MI Patients Deserve Access to All Forms of Medical Marijuana

MI Patients Deserve Access to All Forms of Medical Marijuana

Many of Michigan’s medical marijuana patients have conditions that limit their ability to smoke marijuana. Often, doctors prefer that patients avoid smoking entirely. However, a recent decision by the...
July 18, 2013
07/18/2013
Medical Marijuana Update (2013.07.17)

Medical Marijuana Update (2013.07.17)

A dispensary opens in Arizona as more get shut down in California and more California communities move to shut them down or keep them out. There’s more...
July 18, 2013
07/18/2013
Medical Marijuana Ballot Title Submitted in Arkansas, Again

Medical Marijuana Ballot Title Submitted in Arkansas, Again

Arkansans for Compassionate Care submitted a ballot title, the “Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act”, to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. McDaniel has already rejected medical marijuana legislation five times,...
July 18, 2013
07/18/2013
Arizona Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Thriving

Arizona Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Thriving

Since August 2012, Arizona has seen 98 registration certificates awarded for those wanting to open medical marijuana dispensaries. Last December saw the opening of the first dispensary,...
July 17, 2013
07/17/2013
MMJ Advocates in Jackson, MI to Protest Dispensary Ban

MMJ Advocates in Jackson, MI to Protest Dispensary Ban

Joe Cain, Owner of the Medical Marijuana Farmer’s Market, is organizing a protest for August 13, 2013. That is when the Jackson city council will revisit the...
July 17, 2013
07/17/2013
Study: Marijuana Use Decreased Symptoms of Opiate Withdrawal

Study: Marijuana Use Decreased Symptoms of Opiate Withdrawal

Cannabis consumption is associated with mitigated symptoms of opiate withdrawal in subjects undergoing methadone maintenance treatment, according to the findings of a new study published online in The American Journal...
July 16, 2013
07/16/2013
30,000 Square Foot Dispensary Proposed in Massachusetts

30,000 Square Foot Dispensary Proposed in Massachusetts

John Glowik has been meeting with officials in Grafton, Massachusetts to discuss his proposal to open a 30,000 square foot medical marijuana dispensary in a local business...
July 16, 2013
07/16/2013
Oregon Dispensary Law Won’t Stop Pending Cases

Oregon Dispensary Law Won’t Stop Pending Cases

Oregon’s recently-passed medical marijuana dispensary law won’t help owners and operators that were arrested before its passage. Not only that, there is a specific amendment in the...
July 16, 2013
07/16/2013
Advocates Appeal Marijuana’s Federal Status to Supreme Court

Advocates Appeal Marijuana’s Federal Status to Supreme Court

Patient advocacy group argues that over 200 peer-reviewed studies are more than adequate to show medical efficacy. Medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA)...
July 16, 2013
07/16/2013
Medical Marijuana Law May Not Tank Indictment

Medical Marijuana Law May Not Tank Indictment

Federal prosecutors asked the 9th Circuit to let them pursue charges over a Washington drug-growing operation even though the state decriminalized the manufacture of medical marijuana. Washington...
July 15, 2013
07/15/2013
Great Edibles Recipes: Candy Sushi

Great Edibles Recipes: Candy Sushi

Rachael Ray introduced me to Candy Sushi on her TV show. The stoner in me thought they could easily be converted to a kick ass medible, and I...
By: Anna Diaz
July 15, 2013
07/15/2013
Scientists Discover Another Way Marijuana Helps Brains Grow

Scientists Discover Another Way Marijuana Helps Brains Grow

Back in 2005, it was discovered that THC promotes neurogenesis, the growth of new brain cells. New evidence shows that CBD also promotes neurogenesis. That’s right, marijuana...
July 15, 2013
07/15/2013
Farmer’s Markets for Legal Weed?

Farmer’s Markets for Legal Weed?

Justin Hartfield, owner of the popular medical marijuana listing service weedmaps.com, seeks to expand his influence by potentially bringing a farmer’s market type of approach to the purchase of medical weed....