Marijuana Policy Project Targets Texas for Cannabis Law Reform in 2015
Each year the Marijuana Policy Project, or MPP, publishes a list of states that will receive planning, execution and fundraising assistance from the organization for the purpose of reforming marijuana laws. In 2014 MPP announced the long-term goal of working toward marijuana legalization in Texas by 2019. This year’s announcement, however,
When cannabis is the only thing that helps—but you can’t have it
Rod, a 41 year-old husband and father of three, is like many Americans who face uncertain futures with epilepsy. The doctor doesn’t have any medication he can prescribe for Rod and the only medicine that DOES help, cannabis, is illegal where he lives. When he does have access
Holder Announces Change to Asset Forfeiture Program, But is it Enough?
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has essentially ended a federal program that allowed local law enforcement agencies across the country to share in civil asset forfeitures when cooperating in federal investigations. By way of the Justice Department’s Equitable Sharing program, local and federal law enforcement agencies have legally
Suicide Rates Fall in States That Have Legalized Marijuana
The relationship between marijuana and mental health has received a great deal of attention from both proponents as well as opponents of medical marijuana legalization. But a joint study released this week by researchers at the University of Colorado, Montana State University and San Diego State University entitled Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicides
Attention Florida: It’s time to sign the petition to get marijuana on the 2016 ballot
Last year Florida attorney John Morgan spent $5 million of his own money to legalize medical marijuana in Florida. Unfortunately for Morgan, United for Care and every single patient in the state of Florida, however, Measure 2 failed to pass by only two percentage points. The first time was
Georgia lawmaker backs down on promise to bring marijuana refugees home, says smuggling is worth going to jail for
Georgia State Representative Allen Peake (R-Macon) has spent the last year trying very hard to brand himself the “medical marijuana politician”, vowing to fight until Georgia’s most vulnerable patients, children with seizure disorders, are able to gain unfettered access to CBD-rich cannabis oil. In fact, so dedicated to this
Medical marijuana is inevitable in Florida, and there’s not a damn thing the state can do about it
By now most everyone is familiar, at least to a degree, with the fact that case law in Florida has established a medical necessity defense against prosecution for the cultivation and possession of marijuana when it is used to treat a debilitating medical condition. This ruling, which was handed down
Make your own marijuana infused e-juice for your vape pen
If you live in the south and you watch the local news on television from time to time then you have no doubt, at some point, encountered a news story about the scourge of marijuana concentrates like wax, shatter and BHO that are “just now being found on
44 medical studies that demonstrate cannabis can treat cancer
When Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in the early 1970’s one of the not-so-obvious results of this mammoth policy shift was that scientific researchers were set back decades in discovering new cannabinoid-based treatments for serious medical conditions. In just a few decades the U.S. government was able
Alabama Prison Guard Found Passed Out in Car With Half-Pound of Marijuana
An officer with the Alabama Department of Corrections was arrested in Wetumpka Tuesday after being found passed-out drunk in a McDonald’s parking lot with over eight ounces of marijuana that he allegedly planned to distribute to inmates. Michael Anderson, 28, of Prattville was arrested Tuesday morning and charged with