Billionaire Suit Supports Marijuana Decriminalization

Billionaire finance guru George Soros has donated $1 million to the Drug Policy Action Committee to Tax and Regulate Marijuana – Yes on Prop. 19,” according to Bloomberg. The publication confirmed the donation with Soros’ spokesman after finding a filing on the website of the California Secretary of State. The donation news came on the [...]

Medical Marijuana Employees Join Union

Roughly 100 medical marijuana workers joined a local union in Northern California, according to a May 28, 2010, The New York Times report. The Oakland-based workers voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union, Local 5. According to the article, Oaksterdam University Founder Richard Lee said that while the medical marijuana trade school [...]

Is Maine The Next Stoner State?

Marijuana usage continues to grow as more states legalize the drug for medical purposes. While California dispensaries are structured as part of nonprofit consortium, Colorado “pharmacies” fight to make profits in a system that has legalized it as a business, though hampered by much red tape. The latest state working on opening medical marijuana dispensaries [...]

Fibromyalgia Patients Considering Pot As Painkiller

Some Fibromyalgia patients are looking to marijuana as a means to treating pain, according to a CNN report. The body makes endorphins and substances that can ease pain in the “endocannabinoid system,” which impacts how we feel pain. Marijuana reportedly has cannabinoids that are similar to those naturally occurring in the body. The problem with [...]

S. Dakota May Put Medical Marijuana On Ballot

South Dakota is among a handful of states that might be the 15th state to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. According to KSFY, the South Dakota Coalition for Compassion collected twice the signatures they needed to get state election officials to consider putting the issue on the ballot for the November election. Supporters mention its [...]

Iowa Next For Medical Marijuana?

An editorial in Iowa’s Quad City Times documented that Iowa Pharmacy Board voted unanimously that marijuana has medicinal properties and would benefit Iowans the way it does in the 14 states where medical marijuana is legal. The vote came after four public forums, which were precipitated by an American Civil Liberties lawsuit that urged public [...]

Medical Marijuana Measures Make Waves

Blueberry. Skunk Diesel. G-13. These are all different types of grass, the illegal drug New Jersey just legalized for medical use. Weed has been given to cancer patients for years to help with nausea and appetite but recent studies show new pluses and minuses associated with herb.

International News February 1-8

Nissan Reviews Morocco Project Nissan Motor Co. is currently in strained economical circumstances and the participation in a new factory in Morocco is under review, ZAWYA reports. Nissan’s cooperation with French partner Renault for the new factory was announced in 2007, but the Spanish newspaper El Pais reports Nissan will now take a step back [...]

Drugs, Arms & Human Trafficking July 7

The United States Customs and Immigration Services announced that it will close it’s Tijuana, Mexico, field office on July 3, and its Hong Kong field office on August 29. Both stopped taking applications. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police busted an illegal “super lab,” one of the largest clandestine drug labs ever found in the country, [...]

Drugs, Arms & Human Trafficking April 14

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers covering the El Paso port of entry recently discovered 788 pounds of marijuana inside a false floor compartment of an RV driven by 38-year-old Angela Griego, a U.S. citizen living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Griego was driving a 1990 Fleetwood motor home Friday and arrived at primary inspection booth [...]