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Study: Marijuana Can Help Fight Alcohol And Prescription Drug Abuse

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 2, 2009 Medical, News

Photo: Selkem

What the doctor ordered?

A new scientific study published in Harm Reduction Journal suggests that marijuana is a safe and effective substitute for alcohol and prescription drugs.

The study, published by researchers at the University of California, Berkley, showed that 40 percent of marijuana users said they’ve used pot to control their alcohol addictions, 66 percent said they used marijuana instead of prescription drugs, and 26 percent said marijuana helped them stay off harder “street” drugs such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.

Public Hearing On Medical Marijuana In PA Dec. 2

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on December 1, 2009 Legislation, Medical, News

Photo: Coaster420

Nugs like this Purple Kush beauty could be legal for medical use if Pennsylvania legislators show some leadership.

A public hearing on legalizing medical marijuana is scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 2, in Harrisburg, Pa., before the House Health and Human Services committee.

Discussed will be House Bill 1393, introduced in April by State Rep. Mark Cohen, D-Philadelphia. According to Cohen, the bill aims to ease the lives of suffering patients, take money away from the illegal drug trade and create about $25 million a year in tax revenue from the sale of marijuana.

“The bill has a 1-in-4 chance of becoming law, but I think that health care groups will lean toward it,” Cohen told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Mendocino County, CA (Of Pot Fame) Looks At Regulating Collective Marijuana Growing

By Steve Elliott ~alapoet~ on November 29, 2009 Dispensaries, Growing, Legislation, Medical

Graphic: Reality Catcher

Mendocino County’s regulations on collective medical marijuana grow-ops and dispensaries are being hammered out Monday.

Historically weed-friendly Mendocino County’s debate over regulating medical marijuana dispensaries continues Monday at 3 p.m., when the Human Services Advisory Committee of the County Board of Supervisors meets. The committee has been working since spring to hash out the county’s marijuana cultivation rules.

Supervisor John McCowen, who along with Supervisor Kendall Smith sits on the committee for monthly meetings, said the process has been delayed by numerous speakers opposed to the county regulating dispensaries.

“People are opposed to what the committee is doing, and they’re doing everything they can to impede our work,” McCowen told the Ukiah Daily Journal. “I suspect the real intent is that they are not in favor of any regulation that might actually apply to them,” he said.

“Interfering with the ability of the committee to make a decision would prevent regulation,” he said.

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