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LA’s Measure D Wants to Create a Marijuana Monopoly
Ups and downs in medical cannabis have been the norm for Los Angeles in recent -
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Tommy Chong, Cancer Free And Amazed By New 3D Issue Of The 420 Times
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Massachusetts Is Slated To Release Medical Marijuana Regulations
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is slated to release the final rubrics and regulations -
Amanda Bynes Arrested On Marijuana Charges After Allegedly Throwing A Bong Out Her Window
Actress and all-around Hollywood train wreck Amanda Bynes has been arrested again, this time after -
U.S. Attorney Orders The Spokane Cannabis Market To Cease Operations
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Connecticut Medical Marijuana Patient Battles Legal Loopholes
Tracey Gamer Fanning uses medicinal marijuana for symptoms of terminal brain cancer, but even though Connecticut legalized the plant for medicinal purposes, she still cannot obtain legal marijuana in order to facilitate her medical needs, which leaves Tracey no alternative but to turn to the black market for her supply. Review the enclosed video news [...]
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California Dispensaries Choosing To Deliver Medical Marijuana In Response To Federal Intervention
It seems that due to the ongoing federal intervention that an increasing number of medical marijuana dispensaries in California are abandoning the brick-and-mortar storefront and opting to operate delivery services. Dispensary owners are being forced to make these business decisions due to the aforementioned years of federal crackdowns on dispensaries which have made retailing medical [...]
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Legislature In New Hampshire Overwhelmingly Approves Medical Marijuana Law
Officials in New Hampshire are taking another crack at medical cannabis in their state, and this time around success looks likely. A press release from the Marijuana Policy Project brings us more details: Concord, NH – The New Hampshire Senate voted 18-6 today to approve HB 573, bringing the state closer to passing the country’s next [...]
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L.A. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl Says Obama “Betrayed Me On Every Step Of The Way” On Marijuana Policy
Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl is a cancer survivor and also the first sitting elected official in the United States to publicly admit to being a medical cannabis patient. He was on HuffPost Live on Tuesday (full video below) to discuss medical marijuana and other issues, and he took the opportunity to rip into [...]
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Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy Supports Hemp Legalization
Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has claimed that he would support an amendment to the farm bill that will legalize industrial hemp production. We recently reported that Senator Ron Wyden has introduced such an amendment and Chairman Leahy’s endorsement will be a chief enhancement to his efforts due to the fact that Leahy’s committee superintends [...]
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Cop Goes Undercover At A High School To Bust Special-Needs Teenager For Marijuana
We report a lot here at The 420 Times about law enforcement wasting resources on arresting people who possess marijuana. But this story goes way beyond the wasting of resources. It seems a police officer went undercover at a high school in California and befriended a special-needs teenager. The undercover officer tried to get the [...]
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Senator Ron Wyden Introduces Hemp Amendment To Farm Bill
Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a modification to the current federal farm bill that would allow farmers to legally cultivate industrial hemp. The “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2013″ would eliminate industrial hemp, which is not a drug, from being classified as “marihuana,” eradicating it from the federal law against cultivating marijuana, and permitting regulation [...]
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California Senate Voted In Favor Of Senate Bill 439
Legislation that would plausibly better protect medical marijuana collectives and cooperatives has successfully traversed the legislative scrutiny of the California Senate. Senate Bill 439’s language simplifies that a cooperative, collective or other business entity that operates within the Attorney General’s “Guidelines for the Security and Non-Diversion of Marijuana Grown for Medical Use” will not be [...]
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City Council In San Jose, CA Votes To Raise Medical Marijuana Taxes
The city council in San Jose, California has voted unanimously to raise the tax rate on medical marijuana dispensaries from 7% to 10%. The new tax rate goes into effect in July and is expected to raise an additional $1.5 million per year for the city. “We probably have 100 dispensaries operating in San Jose, [...]
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Study Claims British Columbia Marijuana Purchases Total Half A Billion Dollars Annually
A study that was conducted in British Columbia is claiming that legalizing marijuana for recreational usage by adults could mean big revenue for their government. The study in question says that legalized marijuana sales could quite plausibly generate as much as half a billion dollars annually. Of course as with any study of this type [...]
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Measure D Passes In Los Angeles: Now What?
Yesterday voters in the city of Los Angeles approved ballot Measure D with nearly 63% of the vote, which will limit the number of dispensary and collectives in the city to those who were operating before the 2007 citywide moratorium; roughly 138 businesses. “At long last, after more than 7 years of trying to establish [...]
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Michigan Supreme Court Rules Medical Marijuana And Driving Not Automatically A Crime
On Tuesday the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that driving under the influence of marijuana is not automatically a crime under the state’s medical cannabis law. The case in question was that of Rodney Koon, who had been arrested in 2010 for speeding; he was found to have marijuana in his system and admitted to being a [...]
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