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‘Miss Universe’ comes out for medical marijuana
The winner of 2012′s “Miss Universe” pageant, put on by Republican real estate mogul Donald Trump, told the hosts of “Fox & Friends” on Thursday morning that she’s in favor of legalizing marijuana for medical uses, but nothing more. “I think that for medical purposes, it is okay,” Olivia Culpo…
Study: Fewer Arizona teens smoking pot since medical marijuana legalization
Fewer Arizona teens are trying marijuana since the state legalized the drug for medical uses, a study published recently by the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission revealed. In all, the study (PDF) found that 28.7 percent of students surveyed by the commission admitted to using marijuana at least once. The figure…
Washington DC’s first medical marijuana grow sites win approval
Some 15 years after voters said yes to medical marijuana, regulators in Washington, D.C. have finally approved the first two grow sites in the district’s history, according to The Washington Times. It’s taken so long mainly because Congress placed repeated delays on the program and denied it any funding, but…
Largest marijuana dispensary in U.S. under threat of eviction
The landlords of the country’s largest medical marijuana dispensary argued in federal court Dec. 20 that they should be able to evict Harborside Health Center, located in Oakland, Calif. A U.S. attorney began civil forfeiture proceedings this past summer, and the landlords claim their property will be seized unless they…
Canada to privatize its medical marijuana industry
Canada’s Conservative government will soon stop producing and distributing medical marijuana, leaving it up to the private sector in a policy change that angered critics on Monday. Canada’s Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq made the announcement on Sunday, claiming current regulations “have left the system open to abuse.” “We have heard…
Medical marijuana supporters in Illinois fear planned monopoly
Medical marijuana supporters in Illinois are accusing two businessmen of blocking legalization as they maneuver to control the future market for the drug, reported My Fox Chicago. Jim Merlo — one of the two men who created the company Medponics, which claims its technology could “track, trace and tax” medical…
Montana activists file marijuana legalization initiative for 2014
Activists in Montana filed a ballot initiative over the weekend that would legalize marijuana in the state if it is approved at the polls in 2014. Ballot Issue #1, as the Secretary of State’s office labeled it, would strike all criminal penalties for marijuana cultivation, distribution and use, making such…
Oregon’s 7-year-old medical marijuana patient stirs controversy
Mykayla Comstock, a seven-year-old girl who was diagnosed with an aggressive form of leukemia, has a medical marijuana license in Oregon and consumes strong capsules of the drug twice daily, reported The Oregonian. She is one of 2,201 cancer patients and one of 52 children allowed to use medical marijuana…
Former Obama drug policy adviser predicts weed war if states legalize
The Obama administration will not just sit by and watch as up to three states attempt to implement laws legalizing marijuana, one of the president’s former senior drug policy advisers predicted Sunday. Officially, the Obama administration hasn’t said how it will react if three states legalize marijuana this week, but…
Disabled veteran could change U.S. drug policy on medical marijuana
A disabled veteran has told an appeals court that the department of veteran affairs policy on medical marijuana has caused him pain and significant economic harm, in a development campaigners say is a positive step in the battle to push for the drug’s reclassification. Michael Krawitz, one of five plaintiffs…
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