State Laws Related to Marijuana Marijuana Resource Center Marijuana FAQ Since 1996, 20 states and Washington, DC have passed laws allowing smoked marijuana to be used for a variety of medical conditions. It is important to recognize that these state marijuana laws do not change the fact that using marijuana …
How a Missouri Man Could Die in Prison for Weed At the sentencing Johnston asked the judge to be more forgiving this time, arguing under the mistaken belief that his client faced a 30-year “life” sentence with the possibility of parole. “I think that 30 years in prison for that …
How a Missouri Man Could Die in Prison for Weed “I wasn’t aware it was life without parole. I thought it was a life sentence,” says attorney Randall Brown Johnston when reached by phone last month. “This is coming completely out of left field.” Jeff Mizanskey readily admits that he …
How a Missouri Man Could Die in Prison for Weed On a dark rural highway, a week before Christmas in 1993, two Hispanic males barreled east through Missouri in a 1978 Mercury Cougar. Stashed in the trunk was nearly 100 pounds of marijuana. It had taken the men fourteen hours …
Missouri’s marijuana laws made an inch of progress last month, but they are still among the strictest in the nation and yes, you can still get arrested for a joint. However, people with severe epilepsy will have better access to medicine and the severest marijuana penalty in the country has …
A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition by Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian New Press, 264 pp., $17.95 (paper) Jeff Chiu/AP Images Medical marijuana patient Kevin Brown at the Apothecarium, a medical cannabis dispensary in San Francisco, December 2011 In the summer of 2006, a young scientist from Israel …
Illinois cops, DEA stake out grow store, bust 46-year-old hibiscus farmer After a “month-long” investigation that included stake-outs, digging through garbage, and comparing neighbors’ electricity bills, DEA agents and Shorewood (Illinois) Police kicked down the door of a suspected pot grower at 5am on October 11th, 2013. The suspect was …
Puerto Rico considering legalizing pot, prostitution to ease national financial crisis After eight years of their economy going into the gutter, Puerto Rico is kicking around the idea of giving their tourism industry a boost by legalizing marijuana use. And if that doesn’t get you down to the tiny little …
Florida lawmakers approve punishing doctors who write fraudulent CBD recommendations Apparently the Florida legislature didn’t get the memo that CBD doesn’t get you high. Currently, lawmakers are working on a CBD-only bill that would give children suffering from rare seizure disorders to access to the extract. It should be a …
http://www.myvoicenation.com/knowa1 Great Resources This is the Scientific justification of 40 yr. of #1 scheduling. Trillions wasted 25 million arrests one every 40 seconds. CNN: On August 14, 1970, the Assistant Secretary of Health, Dr. Roger O. Egeberg wrote a letter recommending the plant, marijuana, be classified as a schedule …