Tony NYC suburb welcomes NJ's first pot dispensary
MONTCLAIR, N.J. (AP) — Across New Jersey, most communities approached about hosting one of the state's first legal medical marijuana dispensaries in out-of-the-way industrial zones have just said no, after outpourings of public opposition. Montclair …
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Drug director, chamber oppose medical marijuana
"We're concerned about children using marijuana, we're concerned about marijuana becoming out of control and this being an unregulated law, but the fact is the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act is one of the most tightly regulated medical marijuana laws …
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Medical marijuana distributor gets first permit in New Jersey
New Jersey issued its first permit to a medical marijuana distributor, and expects it to begin dispensing by year end, Health Commissioner Mary O'Dowd said. Montclair's nonprofit Greenleaf Compassion Center has satisfied New Jersey's permitting law, …
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Ravalli Co. sheriff urges vote against marijuana initiative
Voters are being asked to approve Initiative Referendum 124, which aims to restore the medical marijuana laws previously enacted by initiative but overturned by the Montana Legislature through Senate Bill 423. That rule change in 2011, which Hoffman …
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Powerful Federal Appeals Court Considers Marijuana's Medical Benefits
Lincoln Chafee cited the designation as the reason for blocking that state's medical marijuana law. Both Chafee and Washington Gov. Christie Gregoire have called for the drug to be rescheduled. The classification of marijuana as a drug with no medical …
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Medical marijuana scare tactics
Recreational marijuana — its possession, use, distribution, and cultivation — will remain illegal in Arkansas; the same penalties will apply for violations of the law. The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act establishes a regulatory framework for …
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Legal for Some, Pot Crops Up in NJ
Marijuana is a controlled substance that is illegal under federal law. The Obama administration has taken a harder stance against businesses growing medical marijuana, causing some states to back away from the effort. The Christie administration …
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Arizona Medical Marijuana Dispensary Seminar Coming To Scottsdale on July …
“We are going to challenge this tax code to make sure that patients all over America have the ability to safely fill their health care needs with safe access from medical cannabis providers who are operating clearly with state laws. This is a public …
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Hundreds of Medical Marijuana Supporters Protest Obama in Oakland as Feds …
“The larger the operation,” read the letter, “the greater the likelihood that there will be abuse of the state's medical marijuana laws.” (Why no U.S. attorney has applied this standard to, say, financial institutions, remains to be explained.) One by …
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Medical Marijuana Bill Proposed in Nevada
The medical marijuana law, implemented in 2001 after overwhelming voter support, allows each person with a state card to grow as many as four mature and three immature marijuana plants and have on hand no more than 1 ounce of usable marijuana.
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Judge Halts State Rule on Medical Marijuana to Help Planned Sun City …
Gordon, unlike Montgomery or Governor Jan Brewer, is treating the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act like the state law that it is. Gordon wrote in his ruling that he has "serious questions" about whether DHS director Will Humble or his agency have the …
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High court: Hash not medical marijuana
The Montana Supreme Court Friday upheld a lower court ruling that hashish and hash oil are not considered marijuana under the state's medical marijuana law. The case arose from the June 2010, arrest of Buddy Wade Pirello on Interstate 90 in Mineral …
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