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March 4th, 2009
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More Good News for California Legalization
Seriously, if this is the very best the anti-legalization folks can come up with, I should start packing my bags for my move to the Golden State. It should come as no surprise the author was a senior drug policy adviser in the Clinton and Bush administrations. I inserted a couple of notes in following [...]
Illinois Medical Marijuana Bill Passes House Committee for the First Time Ever, 4-3
SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS — The Illinois House Human Services Committee passed a bipartisan bill today, 4-3, that would allow seriously ill patients with certain debilitating conditions who have their doctors’ recommendations to use medical marijuana without fear of arrest. A companion bill, SB 1381, is sponsored by three-term former state’s attorney Sen. Bill Haine (D-Alton) in [...]
Cluster headaches responsive to smoking cannabis… so use Marinol?
First, the good news, something the migraine/cluster headache medical marijuana patient for whom I am a caregiver could’ve told you without any scientific studies: Cluster Attacks Responsive to Recreational Cannabis and Dronabinol Pharmacological preparations of cannabinoid compounds have a variety of therapeutic uses in medicine, including different pain syndromes, but have not been previously reported [...]
Lt. Mike Dingaman of the Oregon State Police on the “significant abuse” of medical marijuana
Monday in Salem, activists from four Oregon medical marijuana groups (Oregon NORML, Voter Power, Oregon Green Free, and MAMAs) joined forces in opposing Senate Bill 388. The act was written in cooperation with law enforcement by a fifth medical marijuana group, The Stormy Ray Cardholders Foundation, which is headed by Stormy Ray, a patient who [...]
California DMV states medical marijuana alone not valid reason to suspend license
Oakland, CA — The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) issued a new policy yesterday with regard to how it treats qualified medical marijuana patients. The DMV Driver Safety Procedure Manual was revised to include reference to medical marijuana, stating that “use of medicinal marijuana approved by a physician should be handled in the same [...]
Medical marijuana passes Minnesota senate committee
ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA — The Senate version of Minnesota’s medical marijuana bill, S.F. 97, cleared its second hurdle in the Senate today, passing the Judiciary Committee by a vote of 4 to 3. “I am increasingly confident that this will be the year that Minnesota joins the 13 other states that have acted to protect [...]
Marijuana prohibition and public safety
“Starting my police career in the ‘70s, I quickly and painfully learned that alcohol use caused the vast majority of calls for service. DUIs causing injury and death, drunks shooting each other, spouse and child abuse cases, etc., constituted the majority of my police work. During my 18 years, the use of marijuana never once [...]
Everybody must get stoned
Salon interviews California State Assembly member Tom Ammiano about his legislation that would regulate the cultivation and sale of marijuana, and then tax it. There’s an audio interview as well: Salon: Even if California did regulate and tax selling marijuana, wouldn’t it still be illegal at the federal level? Tom Ammiano: Federal law preempts a [...]