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Mixing Mother's Day With Marijuana
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyHere's a new twist on the Mother's Day marketing: The newly formed Women's Marijuana Movement wants you to send mom an e-card to ask her support for legalizing marijuana. The Denver-based group is the latest effort to build coalitions to support legalizing pot. While Colorado and 13 other states allow marijuana for medical purposes, California and possibly Colorado voters could consider outright legalization this fall. ...
The 4/20: Marijuana Legalization Would Come With Problems
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyStudent stoners packed greens in Boulder, Colo., and Santa Cruz, Calif. Activists rallied in Denver and marched in Tucson, Ariz., calling for legalization of marijuana. On this 4/20, with medical marijuana legal in 14 states and outright legalization on the ballot in California and possibly Colorado, the drug's legitimacy is clearly gaining ground. ...
On '4/20 Day,' Polls Find Most Oppose Legalizing Marijuana
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyColorado today is the scene of "4/20" rallies calling for the legalization of marijuana, but two polls released Tuesday say that a majority of Americans oppose such a move. A CBS News poll conducted March 29-April 1 says that 51 percent of Americans oppose legalization while 44 percent support it, with 5 percent undecided. That result was not much different than a CBS survey conducted last July, but it did show a drop in opposition from March 2009 when those against legalization numbered 63 percent. Similarly, an Associated Press-CNBC poll, conducted April 7-12, said 55 percent opposed ...
4/20: On National Weed Day, Has Legalized Pot's Time Come?
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyIt's April 20, a day millions of your neighbors, friends and co-workers have been looking forward to for the past year. Why? Because April 20 is 4/20 and 4/20 is 4:20 and 4:20 is counterculture slang for the time of the day when pot smokers worldwide are supposed to toke up and ease themselves into whatever their particular evenings are destined to hold. Some attribute the code's origin to Bob Dylan; some to a group of high school students in California in 1971. Either way, 4:20 has morphed into urban, suburban and rural legend. Don't believe me? Just ask your teenager. If you didn't ...
Lawmakers Grapple with Booming Medical Marijuana Business
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyDr. Reefer.com's neon sign glows across the street from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Medicine on the Hill, which serves up pot-laced ice cream, is across the street from a Boulder police annex. And in Denver, a former member of President Barack Obama's national finance committee runs Apothecary of Colorado, a medical marijuana dispensary with the motto, "healing with a higher purpose." Ten years after Colorado voters approved a medical marijuana measure, business is booming. There are an estimated 63,000 people with patient ID cards allowing them to buy pot for illnesses ranging ...
California Insurer Offers Medical Marijuana Coverage
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA California insurance company now offers coverage for "all aspects" of the medical marijuana industry, including liability, workers' compensation, and operations related to growing pot. Statewide Insurance Services of Rancho-Cordova said its new coverage plan, launched Monday, extends to all 50 states, even though medical marijuana is only legal in 14, The Sacramento Bee reported. "Now that we can offer (services) in all 50 states, we can start the minute they go legal, without delay," Mike Aberle, director of Statewide's Medical Marijuana Specialty Division, told the newspaper. The ...
Colorado Pot Advocates Battle DEA
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailyIs the Drug Enforcement Administration violating the spirit of October's Justice Department memo suggesting that federal prosecutors make medical-marijuana charges a low priority? Colorado medical marijuana advocates certainly think so. They protested outside President Obama's recent Denver visit about a DEA raid of a medical pot grower. ...
Acceptance of Medical Marijuana Grows
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Jan. 25) -- New Jersey is the latest state to legalize medical marijuana, continuing a trend that began on the West Coast 14 years ago. Fourteen states have agreed to let doctors prescribe pot to treat certain ailments since California got things rolling in 1996. The law outgoing New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine signed on Jan. 18 takes effect in six months. New York, Illinois and Maryland are among the states considering medical marijuana. The District of Columbia is on the verge of allowing it. And in neighboring Virginia, state Delegate Harvey B. Morgan, a 79-year-old Republican, has raised ...
Before Stepping Aside in New Jersey, Corzine Signs Medical Marijuana Law
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyIn one of his final acts as governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine approved a bill legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes. Corzine, a Democrat, signed the legislation, along with a flurry of other bills, late Monday, just before ceding the statehouse to Republican Chris Christie, The Star-Ledger reported. Christie took office Tuesday at noon. The measure, which would allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to people with AIDS, Lou Gehrig's disease, muscular dystrophy and other serious ailments, passed both the General Assembly and the State Assembly on the final day of the legislative ...
New Jersey Legislature Approves Medical Marijuana Use
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe New Jersey legislature on Monday made the Garden State the 14th in the U.S. -- but one of the few on the East Coast -- to legalize the prescription of marijuana for chronic illnesses, the New York Times reports. The measure, which would allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to those who suffer with AIDS, Lou Gehrig's disease, muscular dystrophy and other ailments, passed both the General Assembly and the State Assembly on the final day of the legislative session. Marijuana for medical use will be grown in special state-overseen dispensaries. Gov. Jon Corzine said he would sign the bill ...
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