Senate Approves Bill Allowing Caregivers To Possess Medical Marijuana
The bill now moves to the house. If passed, this bill would allow private caregivers protection from arrest for providing medical marijuana to patients.
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The bill now moves to the house. If passed, this bill would allow private caregivers protection from arrest for providing medical marijuana to patients.
In a recent report, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the Federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH), stated that marijuana "inhibited the survival of both estrogen receptor–positive and estrogen receptor–negative breast cancer cell lines." The same report showed marijuana slows or stops the growth of certain lung cancer cells and suggested that marijuana may provide "risk reduction and treatment of colorectal cancer."
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of March 13, 2013:
The Massachussetts attorney general's office tossed out Wakefield's ban on medical marijuana dispensaries.
The Littles should have been protected as cannabis patients in the “grow-your-own-style” which San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis says she approves.
As New Hampshire moves forward with medical marijuana, it's looking at what works and what doesn't in surrounding states with medical marijuana programs.
Spring Arbor allows marijuana use and personal growing for qualifying patients, but has limited medical marijuana facilities to land zoned for agriculture.
S.A.G.E. is a great daytime strain that encourages productivity and creativity.
Hawaii Pro-Cannabis Advocates Form New Groups to advance medical and personal use in the 50th state.
Joshua Sharfstein, Maryland's health secretary, expressed support for Dan Morhaim's medical marijuana bills.
Montana MMJ patients have dropped by about 75% and providers have dropped by more than 90%. A new medical marijuana bill would stop the stranglehold.
Grand Rapids police raided three medical marijuana dispensaries last Wednesday seizing nearly everything in sight; the Mid-Michigan Compassion Club, the...
The Massachusetts Medical Society, which steadfastly opposed the medical marijuana ballot question approved by voters in November, called on Friday for...
MedBox makes armored, 800 pound medical marijuana-dispensing machines, and hopes to bring 30 to dispensaries in San Diego.
Please urge your Representative in the House to cosponsor HR 689, the States' Medical Cannabis Patient Protection Act, and HR 710, the Truth in Trials Act!
Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles mayoral frontrunner and councilman, has been calling on the federal government to reclassify marijuana.
A comprehensive statewide medical marijuana bill introduced in January by Maryland House Delegate and Deputy Majority Whip Cheryl Glenn (D-Baltimore) is...
New Hampshire's medical marijuana bill was approved 14-1 by the House Committee on Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs.