All Entries in the "The Law" Category
Cancer Patient In Colorado Found Not Guilty On All Marijuana Charges
A Leukemia patient in Colorado charged with the cultivation and distribution of marijuana has won an important court victory, not only for him, but for patients all over the state. Bob Crouse was found not guilty of all charges by a jury of his peers on Friday. The folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute sent out [...]
Do You Know Your Local Marijuana Laws?
While it’s true that marijuana possession, cultivation, distribution and use are illegal under federal law, most people will never see a DEA agent. You are likely to have run-ins with state and local law enforcement at least a few times in your life however, and if you’re a cannabis user, this could mean dire consequences. [...]
Landmark CA Medical Marijuana Dispensary Ruling Stands
Back in early March we reported on a ruling by the California Court of Appeal upholding the legality of storefront dispensaries and clearing up the issue of how much collective members have to participate in cultivation. Now that ruling will stand as the CA Supreme Court has declined to review the case. A press release [...]
Convictions Of Two CA Dispensary Operators Thrown Out
The convictions of two medical marijuana dispensary and collective operators in southern California has been thrown out by Long Beach Superior Court Judge Joan Comparet-Cassani, who cited many issues with the original trial, not the least of which was an obvious bias on the part of Judge Charles Sheldon toward the prosecution. Joe Byron and Joe Grumbine [...]
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarcertion
I know it’s been the “in thing” for a couple of decades now to cry racism at every opportunity, but in the case of black men and drug arrests, what other explanation can there be? We’ve reported before on how black people are much more likely to be arrested for drugs (especially marijuana) than white [...]
Fighting Back In California
As many of our readers know, The California Supreme Court has decided to review a couple key medical marijuana regulation cases, meaning cities and towns in CA that want to ban dispensaries no longer have a legal reason to do so. The patient advocacy group Americans For Safe Access sent out an email yesterday, detailing [...]
California Hospital Accused Of Denying Medical Treatment To Legal MMJ Patients
It’s against medical ethics and possibly even the law, but a hospital in Calaveras County, California is alleged to be preventing seriously ill patients from receiving needed medical attention based on the fact that they also use medical marijuana legally under Prop. 215. The Stockton Record originally ran the story about a number of patients who [...]
Federal Judge Throws Out Florida’s Drug Law
On Wednesday U.S. District Court Judge Mary Scriven of Orlando threw out the Florida Drug Abuse Prevention and Control law. In 2002 the Florida legislature amended the state’s drug law to eliminate the need for prosecutors to prove criminal intent on the part of defendants. Judge Scriven ruled that this amendment violated the due process of [...]
Growing Your Own: California Legality And Reality
By David Fiedler Apart from Federal law, which is an entirely different kettle of fish (see Growing For A Collective), conforming to local laws requires that you become familiar with all of them. California law is a bit confusing, since when Proposition 215 passed, it didn’t even spell out how many plants you could grow. [...]
Growing For A Collective
By David Fiedler Growing medical marijuana for a collective of other patients can be both personally and financially rewarding, but if you’re just in it for the money, you’ll probably be tempted to break California law sooner or later, and then you’ll end up in a world of hurt. Even if you follow California law [...]
Judge Blocks Major Parts Of New Montana Medical Marijuana Law
The struggles District Court Judge James Reynolds was having with Montana’s new medical marijuana law have coalesced into a temporary injunction of major restrictions in the law. Among the parts of the law that the injunction blocks is the provision against any profit being made from medical marijuana, the provision against growers even being reimbursed [...]
5 Things Every Medical Marijuana Patient In Colorado Should Know
As we have been reporting here at The 420 Times, there are many changes currently underway in the state of Colorado in regards to medical marijuana, and it’s hard for some to keep up. So we wanted to put together a list of some of the things patients in CO will need to know moving [...]
Medical Marijuana In Danger Of Being Wiped Out In Colorado
As we’ve noted here already, powerful forces have been attempting to destroy Colorado’s entire medical marijuana infrastructure, leaving law-abiding MMJ patients at risk. This is of great concern to anyone in a medical marijuana state, because up till now, Colorado has been seen as one of the leaders of the MMJ movement and a state [...]
Arizona: Scottsdale Goes Around Governor, Approves MMJ Permits
As reported by The Arizona Republic, the Scottsdale city council has voted to award six conditional-use permits to companies who had applied to open dispensaries or “cultivation facilities” in that city. Even the mayor, who said he was “not a proponent of marijuana usage”, was on board with this move, which pits the city against Governor [...]
WA Supreme Court Says Employers Can Fire Medical Marijuana Patients
Today the Washington State Supreme Court ruled in a 7 to 1 decision that nothing in the state’s medical marijuana law prohibits employers from firing workers for medical cannabis use, even if it only takes place during off hours. The case in question went back to 2007, when a woman was fired from her job [...]
