Tag: patients

(161 posts)
June 5, 2013
06/05/2013
Regulate Marijuana, Don’t Prosecute It

Regulate Marijuana, Don’t Prosecute It

It seems that area law enforcement has not yet learned the value of working WITH the local community. Thursday’s raid on The Greener Side, a medical marijuana resource center, can...
By: Jim Greig
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June 5, 2013
06/05/2013
June San Diego Americans for Safe Access Meeting

June San Diego Americans for Safe Access Meeting

Join patients, advocates, scientists, and concerned citizens Tuesday, June 11th from 7pm – 9pm at Giovanni’s Restaurant located at 9353 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. San Diego, CA 92123 for the June San Diego...
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May 29, 2013
05/29/2013
MI Medical Marijuana Patients Surrender for Prison Sentence

MI Medical Marijuana Patients Surrender for Prison Sentence

Advocates held Detroit press conference Tuesday at Noon to draw attention to federal attacks on state lawful operations Several Michigan medical marijuana patients and caregivers are being forced...
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May 28, 2013
05/28/2013
Michigan Forming Marijuana Panel – 3 Years Late

Michigan Forming Marijuana Panel – 3 Years Late

Michigan was supposed to have a marijuana review panel in place by the end of 2009 to do things such as add or remove an ailment from...
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May 17, 2013
05/17/2013
San Diego Judge Not Convinced Medical Marijuana Case Will Result in Guilty Verdict

San Diego Judge Not Convinced Medical Marijuana Case Will Result in Guilty Verdict

Robert “O.J.” Hudson is a forty-something medical cannabis patient who suffers from a host of sleep disorders leaving him debilitated and looking for non-chemical answers to his...
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April 30, 2013
04/30/2013
WA Judge Orders Police to Return Man’s Marijuana – Again

WA Judge Orders Police to Return Man’s Marijuana – Again

On February 28, 2013, Tacoma, WA Judge Jack Emery ordered Tacoma Police to return confiscated medical marijuana to a patient (marijuana charges against the patient had been...
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April 16, 2013
04/16/2013
MI Medical Marijuana Patient Refused Placement in Prison Medical Facility

MI Medical Marijuana Patient Refused Placement in Prison Medical Facility

53-year-old transplant patient Jerry Duval recently received a federal surrender order to serve out 10-year sentence Late last week, 53-year-old Michigan medical marijuana patient Jerry Duval received...
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March 30, 2013
03/30/2013
More Sick Patients with AIDS and Cancer Prosecuted by Bonnie Dumanis

More Sick Patients with AIDS and Cancer Prosecuted by Bonnie Dumanis

Dennis and Deborah Little are a retired couple in their mid-sixties who decided to obtain doctor recommendations to grow and use their own medical cannabis to fight...
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March 28, 2013
03/28/2013
Research on Health-Related Quality of Life in Medical Cannabis-Using Patients

Research on Health-Related Quality of Life in Medical Cannabis-Using Patients

In August 2012, I published an article based on my PhD research in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine which documented symptom relief and health-related quality of life in...
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March 14, 2013
03/14/2013
Continuation of San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ Reign of Terror on the Ill and Infirm

Continuation of San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ Reign of Terror on the Ill and Infirm

Dennis and Deborah Little are a retired couple dealing with life-threatening illnesses who became medical cannabis patients and sought cover under California’s voter approved Proposition 215, the...
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March 5, 2013
03/05/2013
Medical Pot a Huge Part of Silicon Valley

Medical Pot a Huge Part of Silicon Valley

San Jose has 106 pot clinics, more than four times the number in San Francisco and twice as many per square mile as LA. Marijuana use is “extremely...
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February 27, 2013
02/27/2013
Medical Marijuana Patient Raided After Mention in Newspaper

Medical Marijuana Patient Raided After Mention in Newspaper

Yesterday, the Miami Herald published an article discussing a recent poll that shows a majority of Florida voters support medical marijuana. The article specifically mentioned the Cathy Jordan Medical Cannabis Act and talked...
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February 6, 2013
02/06/2013
Medical Marijuana Patients in NJ Face Long Waits for Meds

Medical Marijuana Patients in NJ Face Long Waits for Meds

New Jersey’s single operating dispensary can not keep up with medical marijuana patient’s needs. Patients say that the wait for medication is anywhere from a few weeks...
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December 26, 2012
12/26/2012
Men Are Usually Top Medical and Recretional Marijuana Users

Men Are Usually Top Medical and Recretional Marijuana Users

Medical marijuana patients are overwhelmingly male in Arizona (73%) and Colorado (68%), the only states to provide patient data by gender. According to the annual National Survey on...
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December 14, 2012
12/14/2012
ASA Comments on CA Sales Tax Exemption Proposal

ASA Comments on CA Sales Tax Exemption Proposal

Recently, the California State Board of Equalization asked for comments on a conceptual proposal to exempt terminally ill patients from paying sales tax on cannabis provided by dispensaries. In...
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December 13, 2012
12/13/2012

Sonoma’s Medical Pot Guidelines Stand

The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors has postponed the decision to repeal a 2006 medical marijuana ordinance, which was called “very permissive” by one of the leaders...
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November 30, 2012
11/30/2012
Massachusetts Becomes the 18th Medical Marijuana State; Now Comes the Difficult Work of Implementation

Massachusetts Becomes the 18th Medical Marijuana State; Now Comes the Difficult Work of Implementation

Earlier this month, an overwhelming sixty-three percent of Massachusetts voters approved Ballot Question 3 and, in so doing, became the country’s 18th state to pass a medical marijuana law. Massachusetts is...
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November 29, 2012
11/29/2012
DC Department of Health to Educate Prospective Medical Marijuana Patients in Dec Town Hall Meeting

DC Department of Health to Educate Prospective Medical Marijuana Patients in Dec Town Hall Meeting

Forum and survey will help gauge patient needs and guide their participation in new program District voters overwhelmingly passed the Legalization of Marijuana for Medical Treatment Initiative...
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August 8, 2012
08/08/2012
NJ Medical Marijuana Program Registration Begins Thursday

NJ Medical Marijuana Program Registration Begins Thursday

New Jersey physicians will be able to register patients for the state’s long-delayed medical marijuana program starting tomorrow and registered physicians can even electronically sign up their patients...
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July 27, 2012
07/27/2012
Number of Colorado Medical Marijuana Patients Up in May

Number of Colorado Medical Marijuana Patients Up in May

Colorado has 98,910 registered medical marijuana patients as of May 31, 2012, according to the latest report from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. This is an...
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