Medical Marijuana Update (2014.07.02)
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 2, 2014:
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Iowa State Students Suing Over Marijuana T-shirts
Two Iowa State University students, juniors Paul Gerlich and Erin Furleigh, are suing school officials after the university's trademark licensing office forbade the campus' chapter of NORML from using the Cy the Cardinal mascot logo on T-shirts, saying it violates the students' First Amendment rights.
Weedist Destinations: Visit a Legal Cannabis Farm
Farmer Tom Lauerman is taking his farm to another level. From now until mid-September, he will offer tours of his organic cannabis farm.
Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki Talks Drug Reform
In a conference call this morning, filmmaker Eugene Jarecki discussed the impact of his award-winning drug war documentary The House I Live In and where we go from here in the fight to end the drug war and mass incarceration.
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Alabama Takes Steps Towards Sensible Cannabis Laws
Marijuana proponents in the State of Alabama are working towards the port of legalization, but are currently tied at anchor by the resistance of marijuana prohibitionists. Efforts to make legalization a reality have, however, dramatically increased over the last couple years.
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Medical Marijuana Supporters Say They Are Being Harassed by Tulsa Police
There's a ballot petition underway for medical marijuana and organizers of it complain they're being harassed by police. Petition organizer Chip Paul wanted the Tulsa City Council to make police stop interfering, but councilors told them to take that up with internal affairs.
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Federal Bill Would Protect Cannabis Patients’ Gun Rights
Sen. John Walsh (D-MT) offered an amendment to Senate appropriations bill S. 2347 on June 19, which would stop the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) from targeting state-legal medical marijuana patients for possessing firearms.
The Rand Paul-Cory Booker Amendment Runs Into Problems
As MPP previously reported, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) cosponsored an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act that would make medical use of marijuana legal.
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International Cannabis Update: Czech Republic, a Cannabis Mess
The Czech Republic has been seen in the past twenty years as a very liberal country in terms of attitude towards the cannabis plant and the laws associated with it. US cannabis magazines regularly published articles about the Czech “cannabis heaven on Earth.”
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Group Marches Through NC in Support of Medical Marijuana
As lawmakers try to decide if they’ll legalize a form of medical marijuana, a group of men supporting a broadening of medical marijuana use is walking across North Carolina with the aim of talking to lawmakers about a ballot referendum on the issue.
Gov. Cuomo Attempts to Obstruct the Compassionate Care Act
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has had three-and-a-half years to weigh in on New York’s medical marijuana legislation. Instead, he first opposed medical marijuana outright. Then, this January, he proposed an unworkable distraction.
The Fear of Pleasure: Why CBD-Only Legislation is Not a Real Solution
Most of us were caught off-guard by the rush of states this year that approved the limited use of CBD-only marijuana extracts because these traditionally conservative states had heretofore rejected the medical use of marijuana.
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Oregon 2014 Marijuana Legalization Initiative Clears 100,000 Signatures
A ballot measure to legalize recreational marijuana in Oregon will be on November's ballot after supporters collected more than 100,000 signatures...
Texas GOP Adds Hemp Cultivation to Platform, Votes Against Support for Medical Marijuana
The 2014 Texas GOP Convention wrapped up Saturday, June 7th, after a long week of debate and testimony concerning medical marijuana. Supporters of marijuana reform...
Groups in New Mexico Seek to Lessen Marijuana Possession Penalties
Groups hoping to lessen the penalties for the possession of small amounts of marijuana have filed petitions in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, The New Mexico Telegram reports.
MPP Planning to Put Marijuana on the Ballot in Massachusetts in 2016
On Tuesday, MPP and allied advocates launched a ballot referendum committee to make marijuana legal, taxed, and regulated for adults in Massachusetts. The committee is called...
The Green Thumb and Purple Haze: Intv. With Oteil Burbridge & LeVar Carter
Weedist interviewed Oteil Burbridge of The Allman Brothers and LeVar Carter, writer and illustrator, the minds behind this cannabis-powered superhero story, The Green Thumb and Purple Haze.
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Decriminalizing Pot Possession Advances in Philly, But Conflicts Could Stymie City Law
Councilman Jim Kenney says it takes about 17,000 hours of police work annually in Philly to process those arrested with less than an ounce of weed and it disproportionately affects minorities.