Maine Chooses 2 More Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
The state of Maine has finished deciding who will get to give out medical marijuana, and officials say the new dispensaries could be up and running by this fall.
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Germany to Approve Sativex, But Not Medical Marijuana [FEATURE]
Despite some confusing reporting in the past couple of weeks, the bottom line in Germany is "no" to medical marijuana, but "yes" to Sativex.
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California Legislature Passes Marijuana Decriminalization Bill
In California, small time pot possession is still a misdemeanor even though the maximum sentence is a $100 fine. The legislature has just passed a bill to fully decriminalize it by making it an infraction.
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This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
Oh, temptation, such a torment for the weak-willed. A South Carolina cop peddle's his drug dog's training dope, an Iowa cop gets caught with a bunch of coke, and a Florida trooper is profiling out-of-state pain patients and stealing their medicine.
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NM Proposes Changes to Medical Marijuana Rules: Agency Proposes Fee Increase For Growers
New Mexico proposes to raise fees on medical marijuana producers to bring in money to administer the program.
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Southern Oregon Residents Fear Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations
Though they are nearly a thousand miles away from the bloodshed, Mexican expatriates living in the Rogue Valley fear possible reprisal.
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Ending the War on Drugs
Australian barrister and former political adviser Greg Barns opines on why drug prohibition is bad for Australia and calls for an end to the drug war.
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6-month Delay for Medical Marijuana Permits Stressful: MD
Patients seeking to use medical marijuana are being forced to wait as long as six months by Health Canada because a backlog of permit applications, says British Columbia's Dr. Gwyllyn Goddard. Because of the delays many patients buy pot illegally while they wait for the official government permit.
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Marijuana Initiative Challenges Costly, Bloody Drug War (Opinion)
Former California state senator Tom Hayden opines that he supports the November ballot initiative to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana because our country's long drug war is a disaster and there is an alternative that is better for our health, safety and democratic process.
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Canada Approves Marijuana Extract Sativex for MS Spasticity
The marijuana extract Sativex has been approved to treat another condition in Canada. That makes three.
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Jailed Swiss Marijuana Advocate Renews Hunger Strike
A pioneering Swiss cannabis/hemp activist, Bernard Rappaz, has renewed his hunger strike after being re-imprisoned by Swiss authorities.
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Police Ignore 'No trespassing' Sign, So Court Ignores Drug Evidence
An Oregon judge has tossed out evidence seized in a marijuana case after ruling that police ignored "no trespassing" signs while acting on a tip in a drug raid last year.
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Canadian Medical Association Journal Article Sides with Drug Injection Site
An article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal slams the federal government for its efforts to shut down Insite in downtown Vancouver, Canada's only safe injection site for drug addicts.
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More Than 3,000 Mexican Cops Fired Amid Drug Wars
Mexicoâs Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said today that 3,000 police officers have been fired since May. Six of those officers have been charged in the death a murdered mayor. Rosas said the fired cops were either linked to corruption or failed to do their jobs.
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Mexico Massacre: How the Drug War is Pushing Cartels Into Human Trafficking
Drug traffickers are increasingly diversifying their illicit activities and targeting more than just rival criminal gangs.
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TV Station to Air First-ever Medical Pot Ad
Fox's KTXL television station in Sacramento, California will be the first-ever in the United States to air a paid commercial advertisement for a medical marijuana dispensary.
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Vegas Voters Reject Hash Bars, Hookers, Poll Says
Las Vegas is most definitely not on the way to becoming Amsterdam-in-the-Desert, if a new poll is to be believed.
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Hidalgo, Tamaulipas Mayor Gunned Down
Mexican authorities are investigating the assassination of Hidalgo, Tamaulipas Mayor Antonio Leal-Garcia whose killers are suspected gunmen allied with Los Zetas. The Zetas have also been blamed for the massacre of 72 Central and South American immigrants just a couple hours away in San Fernando. The police chief in Hidalgo, Tamaulipas was killed back in May.
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Marijuana Effective for Pain Relief, Study Finds
The results of a published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal: smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high. The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropathic pain.