Cannabis Fantastic

There are two medical marijuana proposals that are headed for Ohio’s November ballot this year. The Ohio Medical Cannabis Amendment of 2012 was approved on Wednesday by the Ohio Ballot Board. Now the group behind that effort can begin gathering the 385,245 valid signatures that they need from registered voters to get their proposal on the Ballot.

State Capitol Building, Honolulu, Hawaiiurbanfeel /Free Photos The deadline for filing a bill in the Hawaii State legislature has now passed, and we know that the existing bills have all been assigned to committees. Two bills are of particular interest to medical marijuana patients in the Aloha State.  SB 2026 along with companion bill HB [Read on . . .]

UPDATE: The group formerly known as Veterans For Weed has slightly altered its name after the nation’s largest organization for combat veterans sent them a cease and desist letter. The newly named veterans group will now be called Veterans For Weed United. A message on their website says, “We have chosen to remove all current [Read on . . .]

A judge on Friday has ruled that Montana’s medical marijuana law does not protect those that provide medical marijuana to other from federal prosecution. In the continuing assault, US District Judge, Donald Malloy dismissed a civil lawsuit that was filed by 14 individuals and businesses that were part of more than two dozen medical marijuana [Read on . . .]

Toni Armijo will be getting some compensation from the Albuquerque NM police department for her destroyed cannabis plants. She did, however, have to wait quite a while for this payday. In August of 2010, a neighbor of Ms. Armijo called the police concerned that she was suicidal. When the police came to do a wellness [Read on . . .]

Medical Marijuana Advocates in the state of Colorado are calling for a Medical Marijuana Day of Action to protest federal marijuana enforcement against Colorado Dispensaries. The group is calling on all advocates to call their federal Representatives tomorrow and ask them to tell US Attorney John Walsh to stop working to shut down medical marijuana [Read on . . .]

New Jersey – John Ray Wilson was arrested for a few plants in his back yard in 2008. Wilson said he did not have insurance and could not afford the MS medication to treat his symptoms. Conventional prescription medication to treat MS symptoms run upwards of $3000/month. He said that he was growing the small [Read on . . .]

A lawsuit brought on by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to seek clarification on the Federal stance of allowing dispensaries in her state was dismissed by a federal judge earlier this month. Governor Brewer had put the dispensary provision of her states medical marijuana law on hold, and not allowed them to get licensed to operate to give the state time to sue for assurance that a state employee who may be filling out a dispensary applications in accordance with the law would not be criminally prosecuted for drug trafficking.