Bloomberg said he would continue to back Gov. Andrew Cuomo's efforts to make possession of up to 25 grams of marijuana a violation even if it's in public view, though not if someone is publicly smoking it.
Eamonn Bowles, president of Magnolia Pictures, said the release date was "an obvious choice, " because Mr. Marley was a devout Rastafarian, whose religion believes using marijuana is a way to get closer to the late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
World Cannabis Week: held in Denver between 17 and 21 April this year, the event includes such activities as a pro-marijuana rally, a weekend concert featuring the bands Slightly Stoopid and Cypress Hill, and a High Times Cannabis Cup, where judges sample and vote for their favourite marijuana strains and products.
Overall, the industry has been driven into a cash-only posture making the casual medical marijuana customer a cash-carrying target for criminals unless they go with a door-to-door delivery service like iambud.
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In reaching its decision, the Tax Court established the precedent that it will hold a medicinal marijuana facility to a strict standard in establishing that it offers multiple lines of business.
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It concludes, to nobody's great surprise though in the most timid possible terms that marijuana is a legitimate medical drug.
With the changing landscape of state regulation, businesses cannot rely on federal classification of marijuana as a Schedule I substance (meaning it has no currently accepted medical use and has high potential for abuse).
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The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity.
Christine Gregoire and Lincoln Chafee, governors of Washington state and Rhode Island, have asked the federal government to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug (like heroin, say) to a Schedule II drug (like morphine) so that doctors can at least prescribe it safely in certain circumstances.
After a marijuana strain called Bio-Diesel won a quality competition in 2009, the name started appearing in dispensaries around Denver, says Ean Seeb, owner of Denver Relief, the outfit that produced the prized variety.
When my RAND colleagues and I tried to project the consequences if California passed a 2010 marijuana-legalization ballot initiative, we started by calculating the cost of producing marijuana in residential grow-houses, a likely production venue if the drug were legalized at the state level.
Petitioner essentially reads our Opinion in CHAMP to hold that a medical marijuana dispensary that allows its customers to consume medical marijuana on its premises with similarly situated individuals is a caregiver if the dispensary also provides the customers with incidental activities, consultation or advice.
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Such a ruling "would certainly give people more freedom for locally contained activities, " says Bruce Mirken , director of communications at The Marijuana Policy Project, a group focused on removing criminal penalties for marijuana use.
Many American high-schoolers can procure a joint of marijuana more easily than they can purchase a bottle of vodka or a pack of cigarettes, and they know they don't really run any major risk in doing so.
We know from an array of treatment admission information and Federal data that marijuana use is a significant source for voluntary drug treatment admissions and visits to emergency rooms.
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Even though some states have legalized medical marijuana, the court found that federal law trumps those efforts, and federal law enforcement authorities may now prosecute sick people who use marijuana even under a doctor's supervision.
Barry Minkow (ZZZ Best and now Insider Trader) said he needed help for his addiction to pain pills while Noah Freeman (Formerly of SAC Capital and now Insider Trader) had a marijuana and mushroom habit.
Kemp Hannon, the Long Islander who is chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said it doesn't make sense to loosen marijuana laws at a time of growing concern about illegal sales and abuse of prescription drugs.
These diametrically opposed trends, along with the negative impact marijuana has on a nation's physical health, are likely reasons Canada's Health Department is planning to develop an antidrug campaign similar to efforts championed in the U.S. by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
In addition to a hunting tradition nurtured by the plentiful game that thrives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, the county is at the epicenter of the commercial marijuana business, a trade that has attracted an influx of gang elements, including enforcers and guards.
The report, "The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition, " (available at www.prohibitioncosts.org) was written by Jeffrey A. Miron , a professor at Harvard , and largely paid for by the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), a Washington, D.
It contained, I was told, just under a ton of marijuana, six hundred grams of cocaine, forty grams of ephedrine, just over a thousand tabs of synthetic drugs (Ecstasy, meth), and slightly more than thirty pounds of crystal.
On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal on a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that people who smoke marijuana with the OK of a physician are exempt from a federal law that bans the drug.
The Assembly where support the measure is broad passed a medical marijuana bill in 2007 and 2008, both times with wide margins of support.
Now, think about the time you spent reading that very condensed version of events stemming from a misdemeanor marijuana arrest, and extrapolate it, across the span of months, into real life.
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Behind a nearby table laden with smaller, handmade pipes fashioned from art glass and recycled guitar wood, a volunteer points out the grand prize for a raffle at Hempfest's own upcoming "420 Fest": a colorful hand-stitched quilt with a stylized marijuana leaf in its center panel.
Voters in Arkansas rejected a similar measure, while voters in Montana, where medical marijuana is already legal, approved a measure keeping more stringent restrictions in place.
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Illegal growers, of course, have been producing and marketing large quantities of marijuana often at a sizable profit for decades.
Unfortunately, they have not been repeated which outlines one of the greatest difficulties in the effort to assess marijuana's value as a medical drug: doing trials to find out the truth.
Overall, the city is famous for its reputation and history of tolerance, which includes both a general worldview of open-mindedness as well as in specific industries, such as legal prostitution and coffee shops that sell marijuana for personal use (a 2012 law that bans foreigners from coffee shops is being applied on a city-by-city basis, so Amsterdam has seen little change).
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