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Law Enforcement and Prohibition: Two Sides to Every Coin
June 18, 2011 – On its most basic level, the war on drugs is the constant confrontation between law enforcement and “illicit drug” users. While politicians make the policy, police and attorneys and judges must enforce laws that are often unenforceable at best, and get law enforcement officials killed at worst. While it can be…
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Canada: Medical Marijuana Growing Rules to Change
June 16, 2011 – The federal government is poised to tighten the rules on medical marijuana so that only licensed private operators are allowed to grow it, The Canadian Press has learned. Sources say Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq wants to take individuals and Health Canada out of the business of growing pot. Instead, she wants…
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U.S. Can’t Justify its Drug War Spending, Reports Say
June 9, 2011 – As drug cartels wreak murderous havoc from Mexico to Panama, the Obama administration is unable to show that the billions of dollars spent in the war on drugs have significantly stemmed the flow of illegal narcotics into the United States, according to two government reports and outside experts. The reports specifically…
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Medical Marijuana For Rheumatoid Arthritis?
June 10, 2011 – Steve is a horticulturist of sorts. He raises orchids, Japanese maples, and other plants at his southern Rhode Island home. Tending the plants helps ease his rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pain, he says. But the garden offers more than Zen; he grows one plant — marijuana — specifically to relieve RA pain…
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The Treating Yourself Expo: Canada’s Largest Marijuana Trade Show in Toronto this Weekend
CANNABIS CULTURE – The Treating Yourself Expo, Canada’s largest medical marijuana and hemp trade show, will return to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from June 3-5, 2011. The 2nd-Annual installment of the TY Expo will feature over 100 vendor and information booths, live music and DJs, a roster of high-profile speakers, contests and cannabis competitions,…
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Is medical marijuana the next boom industry? (Video)
May 30th, 2011 – Could medical marijuana be America’s next boom industry? It does seem possible, thanks to the Obama administration’s policy of not prosecuting properly licensed caregivers. But in order for it to shift into high-gear, it would need to be rescheduled by the Drug Enforcement Administration, opening the doors to big pharmaceutical companies…
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It’s Official: Now 750,000 Medical Marijuana Patients in U.S.
May 27th, 2011 – It’s official: 16 states, the Capitol, and 750,000 legal marijuana users. We don’t know his or her name, but somewhere in one of sixteen states and the District of Columbia is America’s 750,000th legal medical marijuana patient. The United States reached the three-quarter-million-patients mark as Arizona began issuing patient registry identification…
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How to Open a Medical Marijuana Dispensary
May 27, 2011 – In 2010, Dr. Bruce Bedrick, a chiropractor from Philadelphia, sold his practice and moved to Arizona. It wasn’t for the weather (he says he can’t wait to move back east) and it wasn’t to retire (he’s still working). He did it, like many others in his cohort, because of what’s being…
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Canada: Compassion Clubs & Medical Marijuana use for Cancer
Living with incurable cancer, after a third relapse of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, 39-year-old Lalanya Blue McGraw credits the daily use of medical marijuana for allowing her to make the most of what may be borrowed time. “I’ve been considered terminal for a long time. The cancer is still there, even after all the chemo and two…