U.S. Representative Steve Stockman is the Texas lawmaker who is probably least likely to whip out a joint at the party and share it with everyone. He likes families, straight people, guns and fertilized eggs that might one day become babies. He hates liberals.
Not as much as he hates the federal government, though, which is why he was the only Texas lawmaker to sign a new amendment that could make getting medical pot a little easier.
Florida lawmakers passed a CBD-only bill last month and voters will decide this November whether or not to adopt a ballot measure that would legalize medical marijuana in the state once and for all.
But is all of that needed? According to Ian Christensen, an attorney with the Health Law Services in Jacksonville, Florida, a 1991 court ruling has allowed for patients with a “medical necessity” to possess, cultivate and use medical marijuana for more than 20 years.
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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd came to Denver recently to write about pot. And, she reasoned, how could she truly write about the state’s legalized sales of limited amounts of pot to adults 21 and up without actually sampling some of said pot?
So Dowd ate a candy bar, which led to a Reefer Madness-like bad trip. Read on for more.
A default judgment filed in Minnesota’s U.S. District Court on May 28 by Judge Michael Davis allows the federal government to keep a whole bunch of cash originally seized at MSP Airport merely because it smelled like pot.
But the feds don’t keep to keep the $138,121 because it smelled like pot. Instead, the legal rationale hinges on the fact that “Robert L. Casteel and all unknown persons and entities… have failed to file a verified claim to the defendant currency,” the judgement in United States of America v. $138,121.00 in U.S. Currency says.
The Riverfront Times has more.
Another indication of Colorado’s importance in the cannabis-reform movement: Today, the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, better known as NORML, opened a satellite office in Denver.
We spoke to NORML executive director Allen St. Pierre about the reasons NORML wanted to have a permanent base of operations in Colorado.
The Denver Westword has more.
Newly-installed NYPD Inspector General Philip Eure has been on the job for less than a week, but there are no shortage of demands on his attention. Last week, we reported on the first complaint filed with Eure’s office, nestled in the Department of Investigation, by Robert Jereski on behalf of activists including himself whose organizations had been infiltrated and surveilled by undercover NYPD officers.
Not every dispensary in Colorado is a smash hit. Some fail for typical business reasons, while others go under with a little help from the feds — like VIP Cannabis, which was among the operations raided by the DEA, the IRS and Denver cops in November 2013. Now, the owners of that store and five others reportedly owe more than $60,000 in back taxes — money the City of Denver is attempting to recoup by auctioning off everything it can.
Look below to see photos of twenty items from Herbology Dispensary and VIP Cannabis’ 43rd Avenue facility up for bid via Schur Success Auction & Appraisal. Bids are being accepted until 3 p.m. Thursday, June 4. If you’re interested in buying, click the included links. For the rest of us, though, the pics offer a behind-the-scenes look at what makes dispensaries work — and occasionally, not work. Latest Word has more.
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Live in San Jose, California? Want free weed? Then get off your butt and go vote. Like, now.
Several San Jose medical marijuana clubs have joined in to create the “Weed for Votes” program, which Silicon Valley Cannabis Coalition director John Lee isn’t geared at getting support any particular measure or official.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is moving forward with his limited, clinically-based medical marijuana program, announcing Sunday that the state has paired with a British firm to study the efficacy of CBD-related treatments for children.
The governor of South Carolina has approved a restrictive CBD-only bill into law in her state. But despite the moral victory for cannabis activists, the fact that it doesn’t allow cannabis to be cultivated in the state, nor does it even allow for psychoactive chemicals to be extracted or given to patients may be a real hinderance.