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Americans for Safe Access estimates hundreds of medical marijuana patients throughout California are being denied organ transplants that could save their lives. But that may soon change. Earlier this month, Assemblymember Marc Levine (D) introduced legislation that would explicitly protect these patients from being kept off transplant lists because of their cannabis use.
A new landmark study published last week by the peer-reviewed journal Drug and Alcohol Review refutes the long-held belief that abuse of California's medical marijuana law is ubiquitous.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of September 24, 2014:
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of July 09, 2014:
ASA developed a grading scale for evaluating the laws and regulations applying to medical cannabis in each of the 23 states with comprehensive medical cannabis access programs...
The medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is running 30-second TV advertisements on MSNBC in Maryland and South Florida over the next few days to draw attention to Members of Congress who opposed medical marijuana reform in last week's House vote.
Advocates voiced concerns the law prohibits smoking medical marijuana and the use of the dried, whole-plant flowers, the most widely used method and form.
Americans for Safe Access (ASA) relaunched its VoteMedicalMarijuana.org website, an online tool that provides voting records for each Members of Congress.
SA Members stopped a bill in the state legislature that would have made it a crime to drive with even a tiny amount medical cannabis in your blood (AB 2500)
California’s medical cannabis industry sees regulations as inevitable; some recognize the benefits regulation offers to those serving the state’s patients
Probation Department Ordered by Judge to Allow Probationer the Use of Medical Marijuana
Over a handful of weeks three state legal medical cannabis patient defendants have had charges dropped against them in two different courts.
The DC Council introduced a bill that would lift restrictions on physicians currently preventing them from recommending medical marijuana.
Medical marijuana supporters went to Capitol Hill pushing for legislation prohibiting the federal government from restricting state medical marijuana laws.
Los Angeles' finance office says 457 pot shops filed to pay tax renewals this year, three times as many as are allowed to stay open under Proposition D
A local ban stands after the California Supreme Court refused an appeal in Maral v. Live Oak, allowing cities and counties to prevent patients from growing.
The Maryland Senate passed SB 923, authorizing the Medical Marijuana Commission to license and regulate medical cannabis growers and treatment centers
The first medical marijuana dispensary in Washington State was certified under a nationwide program that verifies the quality of products sold.
