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Paul Ryan’s campaign immediately retracts candidate’s support for medical marijuana
Campaign aides for Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) busied themselves this weekend with telling reporters that the candidate “agrees with Mitt Romney” on keeping marijuana illegal, despite him telling a Colorado television station that he supports letting states flout federal laws on medical marijuana. Romney said earlier this…
Ballot initiative looks to save Los Angeles pot shops
Drug reform activists in Los Angeles said they will file more than 50,000 petition signatures on Wednesday supporting a ballot initiative that would halt City Hall’s plan to shut down nearly all the medical marijuana dispensaries. The city requires just 27,400 signatures to leverage an initiative onto the ballot. If…
Arkansas to vote on legalizing medical marijuana in November
A measure that would legalize medical marijuana in Arkansas has qualified for the November ballot, according to the Associated Press. Arkansans for Compassionate Care delivered more than a dozen boxes to the Secretary of State last month, which contained petitions with 67,885 signatures. The group’s first submission of signatures fell…
Tax court burns entire U.S. medical marijuana industry
Medical marijuana dispensaries that have taken federal tax deductions are about to be gut-checked by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), thanks to a recent ruling by the U.S. Tax Court in Washington, D.C. In Olive v. Commissioner (PDF), judges unanimously found that the owner of the Vapor Room Herbal Center,…
Marijuana advocates decry Los Angeles City Council’s vote to ban marijuana dispensaries
Medical marijuana advocates on Tuesday vowed to overturn Los Angeles City Council’s decision to close down all of the city’s more than 850 medical marijuana dispensaries. “This is an outrage that the city council would think a reasonable solution to the distribution of medical marijuana would be to simply outlaw…
Arkansas activists seek November vote on medical marijuana
A group hoping to legalize medical marijuana in Arkansas submitted petitions on Friday in hopes of getting the issue on the November ballot, according to the Associated Press. The ballot initiative would allow the sick and dying to use medical marijuana with a doctors recommendation. Arkansans for Compassionate Care delivered…
Key Dem pulls the plug on California medical marijuana reforms
A bill that would have implemented significant reforms in California’s medical marijuana system was withdrawn by its co-author on Monday, just days before the state’s senate was expected to take it up for debate. State Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D) pulled Assembly Bill 2312, which was previously supported by the marijuana…
Study finds medical marijuana has no impact on teen drug abuse
A working paper published Monday (PDF) claims that, despite the insistence of numerous U.S. officials, legalizing medical marijuana had no distinguishable effect on teen drug abuse rates in the surrounding communities. Drawing upon data from 13 states from 1993 – 2009, professors from Montana State University, the University of Oregon and…
New York judge admits to medical marijuana use and endorses legalization
In a press conference and op-ed published by The New York Times on Wednesday, Kings County Supreme Court Justice Gustin L. Reichbach revealed that he regularly smokes marijuana to cope with the side effects of his ongoing cancer treatment, and pleaded with New York lawmakers to legalize medical use of…
Weed workers join labor union as Los Angeles weighs pot shop ban
The City of Los Angeles won’t be banning marijuana dispensaries any time soon, if the United Food and Commercial Workers union (UFCW) gets its way. That’s because workers at 14 of the city’s pot shops have all banded together and formed the “medical cannabis and hemp division” of Los Angeles…
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