Peter Bridgman divides his life over the past four years, after his diagnosis with colon cancer, into two categories: before medical marijuana and after medical marijuana.
“The difference before and after was night and day,” he said.
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As far as I can tell, there’s little credible opposition to Initiative 502. (I’m not counting the “medical marijuana” people – who have a mercenary stake in its defeat – as credible.)
Last Wednesday, we were supposed to do a joint television interview of the initiative’s opponents and supporters. For something like this, we normally call the campaigns, and they eagerly supply the speakers. Ream more »
A local state senator believes Michigan voters should have another chance to decide on the medical marijuana issue.
Senator Rick Jones says that if it got on the ballot this time, the voters would turn it down.
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After months of relentless federal crackdowns on state-regulated medical marijuana dispensaries, President Barack Obama has appeared in a video with marijuana movie icons Harold and Kumar.
Many marijuana advocates are outraged by the appearance of hypocrisy this video suggests. Ream more »
Jay Lassiter, a onetime New Jersey politics blogger who would use profanity to drive home a point, texted one word to describe his feelings about becoming one of the state’s first patients eligible to smoke medical marijuana: “Wow.”
“Just registered. . . . Shouldn’t be long now,” the advocacy consultant from Cherry Hill then told his Facebook followers. Ream more »
Proponents trying to legalize marijuana for the last few decades have become accustomed to road blocks standing in their way. More recently, when the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act 2012 (OCTA) submitted signatures for the early turn-in with the Secretary of State in Oregon and discovered that more than 40% of the signatures were deemed invalid, petitioners hit the streets in force to accomplish the goal of qualifying for the ballot before the July 6 deadline. Ream more »
Juan Gomez-Garcia was standing outside a Bronx Kentucky Fried Chicken on May 16, 2012, waiting for his order to be prepared, when a police officer approached and asked him if he had any drugs.
The 27-year-old says he admitted to carrying some marijuana, at which point the cop reached inside his pocket and pulled out a ziploc bag containing weed.
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Governor Peter Shumlin and GOP challenger Randy Brock have very different views about whether marijuana should be decriminalized. Shumlin says changing the law would allow police to focus on other, more important drug issues. Brock says Shumlin’s position sends a bad message to young people at a time when teen marijuana use in the state is the highest in the country. Ream more »
More than two years after New Jersey legislators passed a law allowing doctors to prescribe medical marijuana, patients qualified to receive the drug may register for identification cards beginning Thursday.
That doesn’t mean they will soon receive a prescription for cannabis.
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With voters preparing to cast their ballots on the issue of medical marijuana this fall, a look at the proposed legislation reveals concerns over whether the federal government will let the policy stand.
Question 3, if passed, would remove state penalties for using marijuana medicinally and create regulations for distribution centers seeking to sell to patients.
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