Category: Legal & Regulatory

  • 2009 Tour for Compassion – Cross Country Bicycle Tour for Medical Marijuana Awareness

    Tuesday Feb 10, 2009 – Ken Locke Why I am riding across the US for Medical Patients Rights? As a young boy growing up in Bloomington Illinois, I knew of the existence of Marijuana, Pot, Jane (there are many names for this one plant). Many older people smoked it, and as the years passed, they…

  • Washington State – SENATE BILL 5798

    October 6, 2008 – SB 5798 allows recommendations by health care professionals _____________________________________________ State of Washington 61st Legislature 2009 Regular Session By Senators Kohl-Welles, McCaslin, Keiser, and Pflug AN ACT Relating to medical marijuana; and amending RCW 69.51A.005, 69.51A.010, 69.51A.030, and 69.51A.060. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: Sec. 1.…

  • State Sponsored Hemp Studies

    Numerous state governments have commissioned studies examining hemp’s feasibility as an agricultural product. Virtually all of these have praised hemp’s economic potential and concluded that the crop’s viability is challenged not by agronomic factors, but rather by legal ones. The summary conclusions of these studies appear chronologically below. Hawaii “There is no guarantee for a…