In mid-January, Jamaica’s Cabinet voted in favor of the nation’s Dangerous Drugs Amendment Act, a bill that would legalize medical marijuana and decriminalize cannabis possession. The bill now moves to Jamaica’s Senate which will meet tomorrow to discuss and then ultimately vote on the bill. Nearly a year in the …
Texas Girl Was Taken Away From Parents Because They Smoked Pot, Only to Be Killed in Foster Care Little Alex Hill would have been turned four-years-old last month. But rather than celebrating their child’s birthday, the toddler’s parents have only the bitter consolation of seeing a judge in Milam County …
Seattle Times Editorial Source: Seattle Times Seattle — The world is watching Washington’s historic experiment with marijuana legalization, and we’re screwing it up. A painstakingly slow launch of recreational marijuana stores, with their sky-high prices and scarcity in Seattle, gets most headlines. But the truth is that experiment is utterly …
By Marsha Rosenbaum Source: Huffington Post USA — Last month Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia joined Colorado and Washington as voters approved initiatives to legalize marijuana. Other states,including California, are likely to follow in 2016. Voters passed these initiatives not as an endorsement of marijuana per se, …
By Bridget Bowman Source: Roll Call Washington, D.C. — An amendment blocking the legalization of marijuana in the District of Columbia is on the table as appropriators negotiate bills and policy riders to incorporate in the year-end spending package. “It seems like the marijuana issue has been kicked up to …
Doctors in Macon, Georgia, told Janea Cox that her daughter, Haleigh, might not live another three months. That was the middle of March, when Haleigh’s brain was being short-circuited by hundreds of seizures a day, overrunning the array of five potent drugs meant to control them. Worse, the drugs were …
Medical marijuana may be spreading across the nation, but it will not gain a Southern beachhead in Florida this year. Though Amendment 2 once appeared to enjoy huge support and did win a majority of votes Tuesday, it failed to clear 60 percent as required for constitutional amendments. “We are …
The state of Colorado has been enjoying recreational cannabis from the flowers to the food, but the Marijuana Enforcement Division wants to make sure things don’t get carried away — particularly when it comes to children and young adults under the legal cannabis consumption age of 21. According to reports from …
While using, selling or growing marijuana is illegal in Germany, chronically ill patients will now be able to grow their own medicine without the threat of criminal punishment. A recent ruling from the administrative court in Cologne declared that certain pain sufferers may cultivate cannabis after five patients filed suits …
Although there have been major milestones in the political realm of cannabis legislation, there are still many patients throughout the country that are routinely denied access to non-pharmaceutical medication to help relieve their symptoms. Less than half of the states in the U.S. have approved the use of medical marijuana …