MEwens
Groups appeal to the Colorado health department that post-traumatic stress disorder should be included in the list of conditions eligible for medical marijuana use.
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Katherine Hobson
For years, the city sat by as the number of shops soared to about 600; it’s now trying to pare that back to only 186.
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After California became the first state to allow medical use of marijuana, legislators decided in 1999 to fund research that was supposed figure out what the drug was good for therapeutically. Now we have an answer: a report issued today says it seems to ease some types of pain, and maybe muscle […]
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Over the past few years, hundreds of loosely regulated medical marijuana dispensaries cropped up in Los Angeles. It got to the point where even some backers of medical marijuana in New Jersey saw California’s experience as a cautionary tale, and promised that their law would be more restrictive.
Now, even in L.A., the […]
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California’s state Supreme Court threw out a law that limits how much medical marijuana patients can possess. Here’s the court’s ruling, which was filed yesterday.
The ruling is noteworthy in part because California already had some of the most permissive medical marijuana rules in the country; as we noted recently, the backers of […]
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To no one’s surprise, Jon Corzine signed New Jersey’s medical marijuana bill into law yesterday, on his last day on the job as the state’s governor.
That makes 14 states that have legalized medical marijuana. But as both the WSJ and the New York Times note this morning, research into the medical uses […]
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New Jersey’s legislature passed a bill yesterday to legalize medical marijuana, and Gov. Jon Corzine has said he’ll sign it into law before leaving office next week.
Marijuana is now legal for some patients in more than a dozen states. But, at least based on the Jersey bill, the rules seem to be […]
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JGrimes
Retail shops are a sort of second wave of medical marijuana.
California first approved the use of medical marijuana in 1996, but it wasn’t until 2004 that the state approved the creation of distribution centers. Now medical marijuana stores are sprouting like weeds in Los Angeles (sorry); the city council could vote today to […]
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JGrimes
We never thought of Barney Frank as a big health-care player. But the Congressman is all over the Internet today because he told a woman who compared Obama’s health plan to Hitler’s policies that “trying to have a conversation with you would be like trying to argue with a dining room table.” And […]
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With the Obama administration pledging to take a hands-off approach to state medical marijuana laws, more states may make it legal for patients to use the drug, which doctors sometimes recommend to treat symptoms such as pain and nausea.
New Hampshire’s state House passed a medical marijuana bill on Wednesday, USA Today reports. A […]
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