By O’S News Service April 24, 2014 The title once claimed by Terence Hallinan of San Francisco now goes to Kenneth P. Thompson, the district attorney of Brooklyn. According to a piece by Stephanie Clifford in today’s New York Times, Thompson has notified the New York Police Department that …
By David Downs in the East Bay Express, April 15 Even though polls show that most Americans support the legalization of marijuana, corporate America continues to censor pot-related speech. Legal reformers are banned from issue-advocacy advertising; major websites such as Google, Facebook, and Yahoo prohibit the listing of legal marijuana …
With the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, physicians first became severely constrained in their ability to prescribe cannabis as a medicine and, as a consequence, over the next three or four decades became increasingly ignorant of both its remarkable therapeutic utility and limited toxicity. Pari passu with …
To give you some idea of what we have discovered and what we are looking for, we are posting several excerpts from the revised and expanded edition of Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine. Here are several accounts of medical marijuana use from our book, in the words of people who have …
Posted by CN Staff By Richard Danielson, Times Staff Writer Source: Tampa Bay Times Tampa — If Florida voters say yes to medical marijuana, no one can say yet what role cities like Tampa would have in regulating where it turns up in their communities. In 21 other states that …
Posted by CN Staff By Froma Harrop Source: Spokesman-Review USA — A plague of heroin addiction is upon us. Another plague. Heroin was the crisis that prompted Richard Nixon to launch the war on drugs in 1971. Time marched on. Cocaine and then crack cocaine and then methamphetamine overtook heroin …
Please download PDFs of the front and back of this card to pass it out in your community. JURORS HAVE THE POWER The trial jury created by our Constitution is a judicial body with more power than Congress, the President, or even the Supreme Court. Judges frequently say the “issue of law” is for …
Take Action Online Now Action Alerts Support SB 1193 in California – Americans for Safe Access May 02, 2014 12:52 PM Don Duncan SB 1193 is a bill by California Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) that would require that law enforcement return wrongfully-confiscated medical cannabis or plants or pay the …
If medical marijuana becomes legal in Florida, someone is going to make money from it. Already, a crowd of would-be investors and entrepreneurs are forming on the ground floor. Since last summer, more than 60 businesses have incorporated in Florida with names suggesting the founders intend to get into the …
Pain Clinics Test Patients for Marijuana Use By Dale Gieringer, California NORML From O’Shaughnessy’s, Reprint Summer 2009 Like many medical marijuana users, Kristin Redeen needed additional prescription medications for her severe chronic pain. For seven years she had been treated at a private pain clinic in the Central Valley, where …