Drug-policy maven Mark Kleiman thinks "ASA has crossed an ethical line by charging opponents of legislation it favors with wanting to put four-year-old epilepsy patients and their mothers in federal prison." ASA strongly disagrees.
"Weed for Votes" wass the battle cry for the primary election in San Jose, California. To encourage turnout, 10 marijuana collectives in the city offered "everything from discounts to free medicine" to patients who prove they voted.
DNC chairwoman and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is taking heat from activists over her failure to vote for the Rohrbacher-Farr Amendment and her lack of support for the state's medical-marijuana initiative.
Leave it to NIDA to remind us of the "Adverse Health Effects of Marijuana Use." In a new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, four doctors report that "the question of whether marijuana is harmful remains the subject of heated debate."
New York drew one step closer to legalizing medical marijuana when the State Assembly passed the Compassionate Care Act on Tuesday. Now, supporters, including the MPP, are pushing for the Senate to vote on the bill.
