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Medical Marijuana Employment Rights Bill Introduced in California Legislature
January 31, 2011 – SACRAMENTO, Calif. – January 31 – State Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) introduced legislation Thursday that would prevent California employers from discriminating against medical marijuana patients. Senate Bill 129 would not change current law, which prohibits employees from using medical marijuana at the workplace. According to Senator Leno, his bill “simply…
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Canada: Medical Marijuana Users To Lobby Canadian Parliament Monday
January 30, 2011 – A group of medical marijuana patients, producers, and advocates is planning to meet with Members of Parliament, media and other government officials on January 31 in an effort to draw attention to “the serious and unnecessary obstacles that the Harper Government has placed” in the path of medical marijuana users in…
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Medical Marijuana to be Taxed in Arizona
January 27, 2011 – Arizona soon will be taxing a new product — medical marijuana. The tax on medical marijuana will be the same as taxing any other product in the state, whether it be candy or furniture. That’s a 6.6 percent state tax and between 2 percent and 3 percent for cities, said Anthony…
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Washington Bill Proposes to Sell Medical Marijuana through State Liquor Stores
January 27, 2011 – Washington State Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, D-Seattle, is again proposing that the state legalize marijuana and regulate it much like alcohol. House Bill 1550, filed Tuesday, proposes that medical marijuana be sold through state liquor stores to adults aged 21 and over, and that the state Liquor Control Board issue licenses…
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Colorado Medical Marijuana: Teen With Life-Threatening Disease Caught In Red-Tape Nightmare
January 20, 2011 – Bill Smith has a very rare life-threatening disease. He is 16 years old. He’s missed about a year of school. A few months ago his doctors decided to try Smith on medical marijuana. It worked like a miracle drug. It worked so well that Smith is home from the hospital and…
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Marijuana Legalization Across America: How Should Medical Marijuana Be Regulated?
December 13, 2010- Well, the debate continues apace. Fourteen states and the District of Columbia have already voted to legalize medical marijuana. And eight states continue to consider the matter. If these considerations end up in the affirmative, we will have reached a point where the citizens in almost half of our states will have…
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What Can You Buy with a Trillion Dollars? Marijuana Prohibition’s Failed Economics
December 10, 2010 – The drug war has cost Americans over one trillion tax dollars, of that more money has been spent on marijuana crimes than any other drug including methamphetamine, heroin, or cocaine. The lost productivity of the millions of working tax payers devastated, and rendered unemployable, after being convicted of a marijuana crime…
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New Jersey to Allow Medical-Marijuana Start in 2011
December 3, 2010 – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he agreed to a compromise on the state’s medical marijuana regulations that will have the program operating by the summer. New Jersey in January became the 14th U.S. state to legalize medical marijuana under a bill signed by former Governor Jon Corzine, a Democrat, before…
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Illinois: Montel Williams Lobbying for Medical Marijuana Law
November 30, 2010 – SPRINGFIELD, Illinois – Former talk show host Montel Williams is lobbying state lawmakers to approve legislation legalizing marijuana for medical use. The television personality is scheduled to meet with members of the Illinois House in the hours leading up to a planned vote Tuesday on the issue, said state Rep. Lou…
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Medical-marijuana Sales Tax Nets $2.2 million for Colorado this Year
November 23, 2010 – Medical-marijuana dispensaries are now putting hundreds of thousands of dollars a month into state and city treasuries in Colorado. So far this year, the state has collected more than $2.2 million in sales tax from dispensaries. In Denver, which has more dispensaries than any other city in Colorado, the businesses have…