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Arizona’s Ready: 54% Of Likely Voters Support Medical Marijuana

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 14, 2010 Dispensaries, Medical

A new poll shows Prop 203, which would legalize medical marijuana and create dispensaries in Arizona, with a 22-point lead among likely voters.

New Poll Shows Prop 203 With 22-Point Lead

The voters of Arizona appear to be ready to legalize medical marijuana — for the third time.

A Rocky Mountain Poll released Wednesday shows 54 percent of registered voters approving Proposition 203, which would allow the medical use of cannabis, with only 32 percent opposing it, reports Michelle Ye Hee Lee of The Arizona Republic. Fourteen percent said they are undecided.

Another new statewide poll from Earl de Berge has very similar results, showing 52 percent of likely voters support Prop 203, reports Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services. Only 33 percent are opposed, with the rest undecided.

N.J. Medical Marijuana Providers: ‘We Might As Well Grow Hay’

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 13, 2010 Dispensaries, Medical

Photo: ImageShack

New Jersey officials setting up the Garden State’s deeply flawed medical marijuana program heard Wednesday from people hoping to get one of the six licenses — two licenses for growers, and four licenses for dispensaries — called for by the new law. The feedback wasn’t positive.

The New Jersey law, described as the most restrictive medical marijuana law in the nation, is so strict that both prospective growers and sellers say some patients might keep getting their pot from illegal dealers.

At the hearing in Trenton, N.J., one prospective dispensary owner criticized the proposed rules by saying “anybody would be a fool to apply,” reports Brian Thompson at NBC New York.

Thursday: Marijuana Advocates To Protest Arrests In San Jose

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 13, 2010 Dispensaries, Medical

Graphic: San Jose Cannabis Clubs

Medical marijuana patients and supporters are staging a protest this Thursday, October 14, as criminal court proceedings begin at the Terraine Courthouse in San Jose, California. The protests are responding to aggressive law enforcement actions over the past two weeks by several local police departments and the California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement.

The so-called “investigation,” which resulted in the arrest of almost two dozen medical cannabis patients and providers in Santa Clara County on October 1 and 7, is cynically referred to by law enforcement as “Up In Smoke.”

A press conference will be held at 12:30 p.m., with some of the arrested patients, their attorneys, and patient advocates expressing staunch opposition to law enforcement’s heavy-handed tactics.

Medical Marijuana Enriches Colorado Springs

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 8, 2010 Dispensaries, Medical

Photo: The Colorado Springs Gazette

Tanya Garduno, director of the Colorado Springs Medical Cannabis Council, collected signatures from those opposed to a dispensary ban in the city

Even while El Paso County, Colorado deals with a lawsuit over a ballot measure to ban medical marijuana businesses, the city of Colorado Springs is laughing all the way to the bank, reports Daniel Chacon The Colorado Springs Gazette.

August sales of medical marijuana and cannabis-infused products generated $56,991 in sales taxes for the city, a record high and a nearly 12 percent increase from July.

So far in 2010, Colorado Springs has raked in almost $325,000 in sales tax revenue from the medical marijuana industry — almost three times the entire amount collected all of 2009.

Hundreds Protest At Medical Marijuana Defendants’ Hearing

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 8, 2010 Medical, News

Photo: Charles V. Tines/The Detroit News

Chuck Ream of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Association rallies supporters on Thursday.

Several hundred chanting demonstrators showed their support as 10 people appeared in court on Thursday on multiple charges of delivery of marijuana.

The 10 were among 16 Metro Detroit residents arrested August 25 across Oakland County and charged with violating Michigan’s medical marijuana act, reports Mike Martindale of The Detroit News. All are free on bond and facing charges in Bloomfield, Ferndale and Waterford district courts.

All were arrested and charged following raids and seizures by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Narcotics Enforcement Team at a Ferndale medical marijuana dispensary and a Waterford compassion club and its related dispensary.

N.J. Medical Marijuana Rules Doom Patients To Weak Weed

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 7, 2010 Dispensaries, Medical

Graphic: Cafe Press

The New Jersey Health Department on Wednesday night released 97 pages of rules for what patients, advocates and lawmakers are describing as one of the most restrictive medical marijuana programs in the country.

In an extreme bonehead move, the state limited the potency of cannabis to just 10 percent THC, according to the rules. This means that New Jersey medical marijuana patients must deal with marijuana that is only half the potency of top-shelf medical cannabis in other states.

Patients must have one of nine diseases or conditions, and their authorizing doctors must have been treating them for at least a year or have seen them four times, and be willing to certify that traditional forms of relief have failed, reports Susan K. Livio of NJ.com.

Federal Marijuana Patient Safe From The DEA

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 6, 2010 Culture, Medical

Photo: Michael McElroy/Miami New Times

Irv fires up a federal joint. He works at Fort Lauderdale’s New Bridge Securities, where he is senior vice-president of the stock trading firm. Yeah, his boss is cool with it.

The next time someone tells you the FDA says marijuana isn’t medicine, remind them that Irvin Rosenfeld gets his weed from the federal government.

Irv tokes up every day in the parking lot of Fort Lauderdale’s New Bridge Securities, which shares a building with the local offices of the Drug Enforcement Administration. And the DEA can’t touch him.

“Marijuana is fantastic medicine,” Rosenfeld said. “Doctors should be allowed to prescribe it nationwide.”

Rosenfeld, who at age 10 was diagnosed with a genetic disease that causes tumors to grow at the ends of his bones, was taking all kinds of narcotics as a kid. But as a 19-year-old who had just moved to Florida on his doctor’s advice, who felt the warm weather would do his body good, Irv accidentally discovered in 1971 that marijuana worked way better than the prescriptions he’d been taking.

Canadian Medical Pot User Lights Up In House Of Commons

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 5, 2010 Global, Medical

Photo: CTV News

Samuel Mellace holds up the joint he smoked in Canada’s House of Commons on Parliment Hill in Ottawa, Monday, October 4.

It smelled good in Canada’s Parliament on Monday. A medical marijuana patient lit up a joint in the House of Commons to protest what he called unfair rules set by Health Canada.

Samuel Mellace, who lives in Abbotsford, British Columbia, is a licensed cannabis user under the Canadian federal government’s medical marijuana program, reports Meagan Fitzpatrick of Postmedia News. He started smoking a joint Monday afternoon while in the public gallery of the House of Commons as the daily question period came to an end.

Wisconsin: Marijuana Advocates March In Madison

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 4, 2010 Legislation, Medical

Photo: The Badger Herald

The 40th Annual Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival drew thousands to Madison, Wisconsin, and hundreds of them participated in the march on the Capitol.

Hundreds of marijuana advocates marched down State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sunday, asking for the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Some of the protesters spoke of the benefits of a more far-reaching legalization of cannabis.

In what has become an autumn tradition in Madison, pot advocates observed the 40th annual Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival, held annually from October 1-3, with most attendees joining the march and finishing the weekend with a rally on the Capitol steps, reports Lucas Molina at The Badger Herald.

Washington State Sued Over Medical Cannabis Petitions

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on October 2, 2010 Medical, News

Graphic: CDC

A cannabis activist group has filed suit against the Washington State Medical Quality Assurance Commission, claiming the state agency overstepped its authority and violated the law in its handling of two recent medical cannabis petitions.

Under Washington state law, citizens may petition to add an ailment to the list of conditions for which health care professionals may recommend medical cannabis.

The Cannabis Defense Coalition, a grassroots activist group, petitioned to add neuropathic pain to the law, supported by three recent clinical trials of cannabis in the treatment of neuropathic pain. The Commission rejected the petition, stating “neuropathic pain is not a discretely defined condition,” and that they could not find it in two online medical dictionaries — a result that happens when searching for many conditions already covered by the state’s medical cannabis law, like “seizure disorder.”

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