Unregulated MMJ Market is Creating a Hazy Future

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 …

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Should the Government Prohibit Physicians from Recommending Medical Marijuana?

PRO (yes) CON (no) The Office of National Drug Control Policy stated in a Dec. 30, 1996 policy titled “The Administration’s Response to the Passage of California Proposition 215 and Arizona Proposition 200”: “[A] practitioner’s action of recommending or prescribing Schedule I controlled substances is not consistent with the ‘public …

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Are We More Advanced: Germans Allowed to Grow Weed, Why Not Americans

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 …

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Can’t Beat Them, Join Them: New Federal Bill May Legalize Some Strains

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 …

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