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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 [...]
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 [...]
Does Feeding Pigs Marijuana Waste Make Them More Savory?
Susannah Gross is a livestock farmer with property just north of Seattle, Washington where she has been conducting an unusual but practical experiment with some of her pigs; she’s been feeding them marijuana waste materials. She chose four pigs to conduct the study on and proceeded to supplement their feed with potent plant leavings during [...]
Researchers Discover Hemp Waste Could Produce Graphene-like Nanomaterial
Researchers at the University of Alberta are attempting to reduce the price of manufacturing a graphene-like nanomaterial using an agricultural byproduct that’s usually sent to the landfill: hemp fiber. It’s been reported that graphene has the capability to modernize approximately every energy-generating technology on the planet, from batteries to solar panels. There is only one [...]
New York Senator Announces Legislation To Legalize Marijuana
New York Senator Liz Krueger has announced her plans to introduce legislation that would legalize the recreational use, possession, home cultivation and state-licensed retailing of marijuana for adults over the age of 21 in her republic. The legislation in question is entitled the Marijuana, Regulation, and Taxation Act, which would permit adults to cultivate up [...]
Is New Jersey’s Medical Marijuana Program Too Strict To Facilitate Minors?
The parents of two-year old Vivian Wilson, a recently registered medical marijuana patient in New Jersey, are claiming they discovered the state’s restrictive law and medical community’s reluctance to participate in the program is inhibiting minors from receiving assistance. Vivian has been diagnosed with an uncommon and severe form of epilepsy identified as Dravet syndrome [...]
The United State Of Weed 5/19/13
The United State Of Weed is a weekly series where we recap all of the cannabis-related political developments happening in The United States at the state level. If you know of any new political developments in your state in regards to marijuana law reform – whether it be medicinal or otherwise – let us know at joe@the420times.com. TX: Did [...]
Representatives Polis and Blumenauer Talk To ABC News About Marijuana
Representative Jared Polis and his colleague Earl Blumenauer speak with Jeff Zeleny from the ABC News and Oliver Knox with Yahoo News about legalizing marijuana in the United States. Both Representative Blumenauer and Representative Polis continue to make serious labors to end the prohibition of marijuana in our country by attempting to educate their colleagues [...]
Protest Held At San Bernardino City Hall By Pro-Medical Marijuana Advocates
Pro-medical marijuana advocates gathered at the San Bernardino City Hall in California in order to demand that the city officials discontinue shutting down medical marijuana dispensaries in their municipality. The gathered group of over 30 medical marijuana supporters chanted “patients, not criminals,” “we toke and we vote” and “Mayor Morris, don’t ignore us,” outside of [...]
Does Legalized Marijuana Create Competition For Mexican Drug Cartels?
The Drug Enforcement Administration is claiming that the amount of marijuana being seized from Mexico in the El Paso, Texas area has declined by nearly half since the year 2009, which is when drug cartels began a violent drug-route war just across the border in Ciudad Juarez. “Once the fighting started in Mexico, we didn’t [...]
Legislative Committee Rejects Recreational Marijuana Bill In Maine
Maine’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee has decided to reject legislation that would legalize and tax marijuana for recreational purposes in their republic via an 8 to 3 vote. Representative Diane Russell, the bill’s lead sponsor, claims that legalizing marijuana for recreational dedications could quite plausibly eliminate the black market and produce much needed [...]
Colorado Farmer Hoes First Row Of Hemp Crop
Colorado resident and farmer, Ryan Loflin, has done something that hasn’t been publicly done in over fifty years, he’s planted a crop of hemp. “I believe this is really going to revitalize and strengthen farm communities,” the 40 year old farmer proclaimed. Loflin has leased 60 acres of his father’s alfalfa farm in order to [...]
Federal Government’s Investigation Disrupted Medical Marijuana Industry In Montana
Due to its blooming medical marijuana marketplace, Montana had been reportedly dubbed the “Big High Country.” Now, after the Drug Enforcement Administration has completed a three-year long investigation, it might as well be re-dubbed the “Big Dry Country” in respect to being able to obtain a supply of medical marijuana in the state. Even though [...]
Clinical Trial Reveals Smoking Marijuana Reduces Symptoms Of Crohn’s Disease
According to clinical trial datum that was published online ahead of print in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, inhaled marijuana has been proven to reduce the symptoms of Crohn’s disease. The examination in question took place at the Meir Medical Center’s Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Israel where researchers assessed the safety and [...]
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Close In Garden Grove, California
The city of Garden Grove is taking full advantage of the California Supreme Court’s recent ruling to permit cities and counties to downright ban medical marijuana dispensaries from operating in their municipalities by ordering more than 60 businesses to close up shop or face serious consequences. Garden Grove city officials previously had letters hand-delivered [...]
