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A city official is under fire for berating a local resident and war veteran for his use of medical and recreational marijuana. After a heated, 2-hour debate on cannabis legalization in Arizona last week, Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery took questions from the audience, and that's when the inflammatory exchange was caught on camera.
A few cannabis-culture milestones happened during 2014.
The state of Colorado has announced that Dr. Sisley has been awarded a $2 million grant to conduct her research on veterans and PTSD. Earlier this year, the cannabis activism community was rocked by news ...
Will Humble, Arizona's State Health Director, is trying his damnedest to obliquely cripple the future of medical marijuana in his state. Humble is seeking to change the current protocols for adding authorized MMJ conditions.
A student at Arizona State University with a valid medical marijuana card is facing felony possession charges stemming from a recent incident in which police discovered less than a gram of marijuana in his dorm room.
Advocates of an effort to make marijuana legal for adults and regulated similarly to alcohol in Arizona in 2016 have filed paperwork with state elections officials, granting them permission to raise money to campaign for the citizen's initiative.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of August 27, 2014:
Some medical marijuana users outside Arizona’s metro areas may soon regain the right to grow their own. The 2010 Medical Marijuana Act says patients have to get it from a state-regulated dispensary
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of August 13, 2014:
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 30, 2014:
Ricardo Pereyda, a University of Arizona alumnus and veteran diagnosed with PTSD, has begun a petition for the university to reinstate Sue Sisley, one of the foremost experts in using medical marijuana to treat PTSD.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 23, 2014:
In Arizona, a Pima County Superior Court judge said the language of the statute is so vague that it could be read that medical marijuana users can sell to other users without fear of breaking the law.
Hopes for the the first federally approved research into pot as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder were dashed when the University of Arizona fired researcher Suzanne Sisley, who undertook the study after clearing four years of bureaucratic hurdles. Sisley says the battle is not over. She is asking the university to reinstate her. If she fails, she intends to try to get another university to take on the project.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 16, 2014:
Will Humble, the top health official in Arizona, has authorized the use of medical marijuana in cases of PTSD on the orders of a state judge, reports AZ Central.
University of Arizona professor and leading medical marijuana researcher Dr. Sue Sisley was fired from her position at the university after advocates engaged in a contentious political struggle with state lawmakers to secure funding for her clinical study on the beneficial effects of marijuana on veterans with PTSD.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 2, 2014:
