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| A greener Rhode Island. |
Congrats, Rhode Island residents over 18! Walking around with an ounce or less in your pocket will no longer be a criminal offense in your state starting today. Instead, possession of 28 grams or less is a civil violation (like a traffic ticket) that will get you a $150 fine.
No, this is not an April Fools joke.
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Apparently growing vegetables in your basement in Leawood, Kansas is reason enough for the local police to raid your house, hold you and your family at gunpoint and accuse your 13-year-old son of using marijuana. At least, that’s the message sent after Johnson County Sheriff deputies blew in the door of the Harte family home last year looking for marijuana.
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It’s all about the variety — unless, of course, you’re talking about marijuana.
It appears that 106.5 The Arch — the St. Louis FM radio station with the slogan “it’s all about the variety!” — declined to accept a paid advertisement from local marijuana reform advocacy group Show-Me Cannabis Regulation, because it was worried about the subject matter. The Riverfront Times has the rest.
Massachusetts medical marijuana laws passed last November allows for up to 35 nonprofit dispensaries around the state, and draft regulations to guide the industry were just released today.
Among the proposed rules is the determination that a 60-day supply of marijuana can be up to ten ounces per patient and that all dispensaries would have to grow their own cannabis.
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Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division has been a colossal waste of money and has failed to meet the goals set for them in 2010. That’s the sum of an audit released earlier this week by the state that lambasts the agency for their ineptitude over the last two-plus years.
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Last June, Dorian Brooks showed up to work at the THC Downtown Collective in Long Beach, California thinking he would have normal day helping patients out. That changed instantly when Long Beach police raided the dispensary. Brooks hit the ground to surrendering (though he had done nothing wrong) when some cop comes over and stepped on the back of his neck while muttering racist remarks at Brooks. It was all caught on camera, despite the cop trying to destroy the evidence at the scene.
OC Weekly has more.
A bill that would legalize, regulate and tax limited amounts of marijuana in Maine has been introduced, backed by the sponsorship of 35 bipartisan legislators. Legislative document 1229 would
The bill – which is very similar to Marijuana Policy Project-sponsored legislation passed in Colorado last year as well as numerous bills being considered around the country – would allow for possession and cultivation for people over 21. People could grow up to six plants and posses up to two and a half ounces of marijuana if the bill is approved.
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City leaders in Concord, Calif. clearly don’t appreciate the bountiful Northern California sun as much as everyone else does. On Tuesday, city council unanimously decided that medical marijuana patients can no longer harness the power of the sun in their own backyards to grow their medicine. Instead, they’ll have to move them indoors under artificial, watt-sucking lights.
Apparently nobody told City Council that being environmentally conscious is kind of a big deal in Northern California.
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Identical medical marijuana bills were introduced into both the New York General Assembly and the Senate on Tuesday. If either Senate Bill 6357 or Senate Bill 4406 pass, it could make New York the 19th state to approve medical marijuana.
The bills, introduced by Manhattan Assemblyman Richard Gottfried and Staten Island Senator Diane Savino, would allow patients to possess and use up to two and a half ounces of marijuana at a time.