The US First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston Monday sided with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in rejecting University of Massachusetts-Amherst scientist Dr. Lyle Craker’s appeal...
St. Louis will reduce the penalty for people caught with small amounts of marijuana, essentially turning a criminal offense into a ticket. The Board of Aldermen voted...
At a news conference Tuesday, April 16, a group of doctors announced the support of nearly 250 Illinois physicians for allowing patients with serious illnesses to obtain...
The University of Louisville held a rally for the legalization of medical marijuana in Kentucky. Senator Perry Clark has introduced a medical marijuana bill in the state...
Special to Drug War Chronicle by Clarence Walker, freelancewriter82@gmail.com When the tech world news web site CNET published excerpts of a leaked DEA memo explaining how, during an investigation, the...
Washington’s Senate unanimously approved a bill to protect stores containing pharmacies from licensing problems that could arise from accidentally dropped marijuana. The bill sets up handling procedures when finding...
Pennsylvania will again consider making medical marijuana legal. The Governor Raymond P. Shafer Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act, or House Bill 1181, was introduced Monday at the State House,...
In Santa Rosa, California, the Organicann Harvest Market provides locally grown medical marijuana to qualifying patients. Medical marijuana farmers’ markets have also been tried in Phoenix, Tacoma...
SB 281, a bill adding Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a qualifying condition for the use of medical marijuana, has cleared its last hurdle and is headed to...
The Drug Enforcement Administration said it will classify three marijuana-like chemicals as federally controlled substances to “avoid an imminent hazard to public safety.” “Synthetic cannabinoids” are chemicals...
For the past few weeks, I’ve been growing two plants in my apartment in Denver, with the intent of juicing cannabis as it grows. Overall, everything is going well. I’ve been...
As we’ve promoted many times before, the only real solution to marijuana prohibition is to reconcile with the Federal Controlled Substances Act. The Controlled Substances Act drives...
In an interview with Huffington Post, legendary musician Willie Nelson had this to say about marijuana policy: “There’s money there, and anyone with any brains at all...
As the country moves forward in accepting marijuana as medicine and as a safer recreational choice than alcohol, the serious lack of objective scientific research on marijuana...
High Times reports the US Price, Kind and Mids indices all finished March below their previous month’s average, after experiencing rebounds in average pot prices last month. The...
Did you miss the one day San Diego ASA seminar; Medical Cannabis: Law, Science, and Advocacy? Watch the entire seminar including videos of all the presentations here:...
The Cannabis Career Institute (CCI) has opened Nevada’s first MMJ school, providing students with lessons on growing, budtending and dispensary operation. This all comes before the first...
53-year-old transplant patient Jerry Duval recently received a federal surrender order to serve out 10-year sentence Late last week, 53-year-old Michigan medical marijuana patient Jerry Duval received...
