By Quentin Fottrell
Mark Twain is said to have remarked that a gold rush is a good time to be in the pick and shovel business. Investors may be able to apply that same bit of wisdom to the growing number of U.S. states that have legalized pot.
Although federal law prohibits the sale or possession of marijuana, Massachusetts last week joined the ranks of states — 18 plus Washington, D.C. — that allow its use for people suffering from chronic illnesses like cancer, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy. In Washington and Colorado, meanwhile, voters passed an initiative to Read more.....
PR NEWSWIRE
SAN DIEGO, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Medical Marijuana, Inc. MJNA 0.00% a leading hemp industry innovator, is pleased to announce that PhytoSPHERE Systems, a portfolio company of MJNA that develops pharmaceutical grade medicinal hemp production facilities, is expanding its production facilities to Europe. This expansion will be done through MJNA’s newly formed portfolio company Canipa Holdings, which has established an office and team in the city of Bucharest, Romania, to handle its European product launch and Read more.....
The Huffington Post
OSLO, Norway — A lawyer representing Snoop Dogg says the American rapper has been banned from entering Norway for two years after trying to enter the country with a small amount of marijuana last month.
Holger Hagesaeter, the rapper’s legal representative in Norway, told The Associated Press on Saturday that his client “can live with the decision” and has no immediate plans to appeal it.
Snoop Dogg, whose name is Calvin Broadus, was on his way to a music festival in southern Norway in June when sniffer dogs detected eight grams of marijuana in his luggage. He was also carrying more Read more.....
by Chris Laine Daily Tribune
A Commerce Township man is accused of running a marijuana operation after the Oakland County Narcotics Enforcement Team seized 950 marijuana plants and almost 20 pounds of marijuana inside his home on Friday, according to a report Sunday.
Lionell Deshawn Hicks, 39, was arrested Friday after a Consumers Energy employee tipped police that he had seen numerous marijuana plants inside Hicks’ home. The employee stated that he looked in the windows of the home and saw numerous marijuana plants while investigating a claim that the homeowner was stealing natural gas, according to the Sheriff’s Read more.....
By Shane Hoover and Todd Porter
CantonRep.com
Alliance police confirmed Monday morning that Ohio State running back Bri’onte Dunn, a former standout at GlenOak High School, was charged over the weekend with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The charges stem from a traffic stop around 11:08 p.m. Saturday.
Police observed Dunn driving on E. Broadway Street when he almost ran the blinking red light at Arch Avenue, traveled over the crosswalk and almost struck a patrol car, according to a police Read more.....
The Associated Press
Springfield, MO.
Supporters of a petition to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana in Springfield are running out of time to collect enough signatures to get the issue on the November ballot.
The city clerk’s office says petition organizers need another 649 signatures before the initiative can go before the city council. They have until Aug. 7 to collect those signatures.
Petition organizer Maranda Reynolds says the group, Show-Me Cannabis, still hopes to have the issue before the council at its Aug. 13 meeting.
The Springfield News-Leader reports ( http://sgfnow.co/MOhHiG) the petition would reduce the Read more.....
By David Marino-Nachison
A 53-year-old Gambrills man has been arrested on drug and gun charges after authorities found an alleged marijuana growing operation and guns and ammunition in his home.
Anne Arundel County police said that detectives executed a search warrant Friday at the home of Nicholas V. Dominick in the 500 block of Watts Avenue. They found 46 marijuana plants, 11 handguns, five shotguns, eight rifles — including an AK-47 assault rifle — and boxes of ammunition.
Police said 10 of the guns were registered; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was to investigate the Read more.....
Michael Phelps‘ candid interview with Details magazine has him owning up to his shocking weight gain and marijuana scandal.
The gold medalist, 27, discusses his intense workout schedule, even explaining the difficulties of going six years without taking a day off.
“During those six years it was a sacrifice that I Read more.....
BY ED VOGEL
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU CARSON CITY – A bill allowing registered medical marijuana users in Nevada to acquire the outlawed drug is one of the 144 bills being drawn up for consideration at the 2013 Legislature.
Assemblyman Tick Segerblom, D-Las Vegas, said Monday he requested the bill, which would be introduced in the state Senate if he is elected to the upper house, because there is no legal way to obtain the drug, which is used to help people with glaucoma and cancer patients who suffer loss of appetite because of Read more.....
By Susan E. Matthews, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer | LiveScience.com The case of the 3-year-old boy who ate his grandmother’s prescription marijuana-laced cookies could have had a much worse ending than a very long nap had the child consumed a drug other than cannabis, a drug expert says.
The California boy was taken to the hospital after he slept for 16 hours and his family noticed crumbs from the grandmother’s cookies, according to an Associated Press story. He was observed at the Read more.....
By KIM CAROLLO (@kimcarollo) An Israeli company says it is growing medical marijuana with a special twist — it offers some of the same therapeutic benefits without the high.
According to Reuters, the company, Tikun Olam, is cultivating a type of cannabis plant that has high levels of a substance Read more.....
California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) has withdrawn from consideration a landmark bill that would have created the first statewide system for regulating medical marijuana.
Assembly Bill 2312 made history this June when it Read more.....
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WACO, Texas – A Texas man is facing animal cruelty charges after police said he ate a dog while high on synthetic marijuana.
Michael Terron Daniel, 22, was arrested Monday for the June 14 incident, KWTX-TV reported.
Police investigated after receiving a report of a man “going crazy” at a Waco home.
When they arrived, Daniel told officers he was on a “bad trip” from the synthetic marijuana, known as K-2. He had apparently assaulted several people at the home.
He dropped to all fours and chased a neighbor “while barking and growling like a dog,” Waco Police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton Read more.....
By MAIA SZALAVITZ TIME: Commonly used baby soaps and shampoos, including products from Johnson & Johnson, Aveeno and CVS, can trigger a positive result on newborns’ marijuana screening tests, according to a recent study. A minute amount of the cleansing products in a urine sample — just 0.1 milliliters or less — was found to cause a positive result.
Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, began studying the issue after an unusually high number of Read more.....
RICHARD K. De ATLEY
An Aug. 7 trial date has been set for six men charged with violating federal drug laws in connection with the operation and supply of G3 Holistics, a three-store chain of medical marijuana stores in the Inland area.
All defendants entered pleas of not guilty during an arraignment appearance Monday, June 18, in a downtown Los Angeles federal courtroom. Four of them are free on bond.
Brothers Aaron Sandusky, 41, of Rancho Cucamonga, and Keith Alan Sandusky, 44, of Rancho Cucamonga, remain in custody as the government challenges terms of their proposed bail. A Read more.....
By BRIAN DOWLING bdowling@courant.comThe Hartford Courant HARTFORD — A marijuana dispensing machine, not loaded with goods, is on display Tuesday in a Pratt Street storefront as its developer hopes to spark state rules allowing the automated distribution system for medical use of the plant.
If the system were to come to Connecticut for regular operations, customers with a prescription would be able to walk up, swipe a credit or debit card, have their fingerprints scanned, and get their prescribed leafy drug — a system that’s in place in six western states and Canada.
“The Read more.....
LA TIMES: Police confiscated marijuana plants as well as a wood-handled pitchfork and hoe into evidence from the home of Rodney King as officials try to determine how he died.
Officials said there were no “outward signs” of alcohol or drug use that may have caused King to fall into the pool Sunday morning.
Investigators are looking into reports by a next-door neighbor who said she heard the 47-year-old King in his backyard sobbing uncontrollably shortly before a splash.
The Huffington Post | By Katherine Bindley Marijuana use among teens has been on the rise for some time–it’s become more popular than smoking cigarettes in recent years–but a provocative new study shows that legalizing pot for Read more.....
Press Release: Medical Marijuana, Inc. – Fri, Jun 1, 2012 10:39 AM EDT
SAN DIEGO, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Medical Marijuana, Inc. (Pink Sheets: MJNA)
From excerpts of an article written by the Medical Marijuana Business Daily; (click here to download full article)
Several prominent medical marijuana companies are focusing on what they see as the wave of the future in the MMJ industry: Read more.....
By Samuel P. Jacobs | Reuters – Sat, Jun 2, 2012
DENVER (Reuters) – Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama hasn’t exactly been a friend to marijuana users.
Sure, he has acknowledged smoking pot as a young man, but he has disappointed marijuana advocates by opposing its legalization, regulation and taxation like alcohol.
And the Justice Department’s Read more.....
by Melanie Eversley, USA Today
A New York State Supreme Court judge out of Brooklyn is generating buzz because of his public appeal to legalize medical marijuana, as outlined in an opinion piece that he wrote forThe New York Times.
The plea Read more.....
by Maia Szalavitz, Time Magazine
Among the voluminous evidence released Thursday in the shooting death of 17-year-old Florida high school student Trayvon Martin is a toxicology report showing that the teen had trace levels of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in his blood and urine.
The evidence includes abundant new information: Read more.....
The state opened the door for medical-marijuana dispensary applications yesterday, receiving 15 by the end of the day.
Hopeful pot-shop owners will have until 5 p.m. on May 25 to submit the applications. Besides paying a $5,000 application fee, weed-trepeneurs must include a business plan and details on how they’ll control their inventory.See the state Department of Health Services checklist for Read more.....
by Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee
A murder warrant has been issued in the disappearance of Sammy Mercado, the Sanger teenager who vanished after attempting to steal marijuana from an outdoor growing site last month, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said.
Sheriff’s investigators say Ernie Chanmany, 21, of Fresno is wanted on suspicion of murder, attempted Read more.....
The classification of cannabis as a schedule one narcotic is among the least defensible aspects of prohibition.
Dr. Jody Corey-Bloom, director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center at UC San Diego, recently helped run a study that provided multiple sclerosis patients with Read more.....
In an op-ed yesterday in the Huffington Post, Steph Sherer touts the Rohrabacher-Hinchey-Farr Amendment to the appropriations bill H.R. 5326 as a tool “to deny funding to DEA raids against dispensaries operating in accordance with state law”. While I agree that limiting Read more.....
by Shannon Young, Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut lawmakers’ approval of the use of medical marijuana includes strict regulations for the cultivation and distribution in an attempt to avoid problems other states have run into when legalizing the plant for medical use.
The Read more.....
by Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes
It was one of those small, curious stories that make it into almost every global news outlet: To fight a national economic crisis bringing hardship and crushing debt to a tiny municipality, the government and residents of Read more.....
by Tom Howell Jr., The Washington Times
Unsuccessful applicants to the District’s medical marijuana program are asking the courts to force the reconsideration of their submissions, claiming they were rejected by a review panel despite meeting or exceeding stated criteria.
Three firms filed a total of five civil complaints to contest the way officials, led by the D.C. Department of Health, scored and Read more.....
by Norimitsu Onishi, The New York Times
VALLEJO, Calif. — On a suburban block with six family homes, palm trees and views of the surrounding green hills, nothing at 110 Windsor Court stood out. Its occupants, who had moved into the foreclosed house a few years earlier, were quiet types.
On a street in Vallejo, a burned-out house that had been used to grow marijuana. Unsafe wiring for lights for the plants often causes such Read more.....
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