| TokeoftheTown.com |
Come 2014, Florida may join the ranks of states that legalize medical marijuana. There is talk of putting the measure on the ballot in the next state-wide election, and a new poll conducted by People United for Medical Marijuana finds that nearly seventy percent of Floridians back the idea.
For the rest of this article, click over to our sister paper in the Sunshine State, The Miami New Times.
| Nevada Sen. Tick Segerblom. |
Could medical marijuana dispensaries dot the landscape between the casinos of Las Vegas and the rest of Nevada? That’s what one Nevada state senator is hoping to accomplish this session with a bill that would legalize medical marijuana centers in that state.
A proposed DUI bill in Colorado being discussed later today would set the blood-THC limit at 5 nanograms of active THC for every milliliter of blood. The key here is that it’s active, as latent inactive THC levels can linger in the system for weeks after use causing no actual impairment.
But state law doesn’t always recognize these differences, as seen in an Arizona court ruling. It establishes that people there can be found guilty of driving under the influence whether they’re impaired or not — and even if they’ve got negligible amounts of THC in their system.
Earlier this week, the Denver Westword posted about an Amendment 64 task-force recommendation to allow marijuana tourism. But while Christian Sederberg, a task-force member with whom we spoke about what some see as a one-year licensing monopoly for current medical marijuana centers, concedes that the proposal would indeed allow out-of-staters to buy weed here, he thinks its potential to fight crime might be even more important.
Read the rest on Colorado’s pot tourism over at our sister paper, The Denver Westword.
| Still from BBC’s Hedz. |
Scotland’s Austin Low, known for his work as a writer on a children’s TV show, was mailed a box of “cookies” from somewhere on this side of the pond the other week. Only, the “cookies” weren’t cookies. They were several sealed bags of ganja. Though the report doesn’t say how much was found, they did say it was enough to be worth nearly $14,000 over there, according to the BBC.
Jacob Pressley and Jennifer Carpenter of Durham, North Carolina, were arrested Feb. 8 after Raleigh and Durham police raided their suburban home north of Interstate 40 and found “several” marijuana plants, according to the Herald-Sun. Police also found their child asleep in the house.
| azfamily.com |
| Vince Borinski. |
Hepatitis C and Cancer patient Vince Borinski says that he was unfairly evicted from the Country Park Villas apartments in Mesa Arizona due to his choice of medication, according to AZFamily TV3 Mesa. View the video after the break.