Internship Opportunity: Americans for Safe Access, Washington, DC
Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a national medical marijuana advocacy group, is currently seeking graduate and undergraduate interns for their Washington DC office.
Medical Marijuana
Medical Marijuana: New Mexico Paraplegic Sues Over Seizure of Plants, Grow Equipment
Leonard French followed New Mexico's medical marijuana law to the letter, but that didn't stop the Pecos Valley Drug Task Force from seizing his plants and grow equipment and giving it to the DEA. Now he's suing.
Marijuana: Idaho Balks at Town's Pot Initiatives
In November, voters in Hailey, Idaho, approved initiatives legalizing medical marijuana and industrial hemp and instructing the town to make marijuana offenses the lowest law enforcement priority. Now, the Idaho attorney general's office has found those initiatives to be "invalid" and the city is balking at implementing them.
Europe: Finland to Set Guidelines for Medical Marijuana Use
After one patient successfully challenged an agency's stance that Finnish law absolutely forbids it, the Finnish government is moving to craft guidelines to allow for medical marijuana use.
Medical Marijuana: DEA Threatens San Francisco Dispensary Landlords, Dispensaries Sue, Conyers to Hold Hearings
In its battle against medical marijuana dispensaries, the DEA has brought its landlord-threatening letter campaign to San Francisco. Now, the dispensaries are suing in federal court, and the House Judiciary Committee will hold hearings on the matter.
Internships: Two Openings at Americans for Safe Access
ASA has two internship opportunities available for the spring semester, one in their Washington, DC office and one in their Oakland, CA office.
Medical Marijuana: Courts in California and Colorado Rule Cops Must Return Patient's Medicine
Law enforcement agencies which cannot seem to grasp that medical marijuana is legal in their states got their hands slapped by courts in Colorado and California this week. In both states, judges ruled that police must return medical marijuana unlawfully seized from legal patients or providers.
Medical Marijuana: Michigan Initiative Organizers Hand in Half a Million Signatures
It looks like medical marijuana will be on the 2008 ballot in Michigan. Organizers of a signature-gathering campaign for an initiative turned in nearly 500,000 signatures this week, almost 200,000 more than needed.
Medical Marijuana: Invited By "Pro-Family Group," Drug Czar's Chief Scientist Testifies at Tennessee House Hearing
A Tennessee medical marijuana bill saw a bunch of hostile witnesses, as the drug czar's office teamed up with the local religious right to try to nip it in the bud.
Marijuana: Three of Four Reform Initiatives Pass in Hailey, Idaho
Three out of four marijuana reform initiatives -- medical marijuana, hemp, and lowest law enforcement priority -- won in small-town Hailey, Idaho, but a taxation and regulation initiative was narrowly defeated.