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Cannabis and The Christian Science Monitor

15. March 2010

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While The Christian Science Monitor claims not to be an instrument of evangelizing, it does include a daily religious feature and it rejects drug advertising as well as images of smoking or drinking. It should come as no surprise then that in a March 12 editorial the Monitor showered praise on the nation’s drug czar [...]

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Home, Office Of Marijuana Advocate Raided On Big Isle

15. March 2010

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HILO, Hawai’i – Marijuana advocate Roger Christie said his home and offices have been raided by federal agents and Big Island police. The founder and director of The Hawaii Cannabis Ministry said records, cash and marijuana he uses as a sacrament were seized Wednesday. Christie said he knows of about half a dozen similar [...]

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Gregoire Expected To Sign Bill

14. March 2010

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Olympia — Gov. Christine Gregoire is expected to sign a bill that will give more health care professionals the authority to recommend medical marijuana to qualified users in the state. Senate Bill 5798 allows naturopathic doctors, advanced physician assistants and nurse practitioners the power to OK a course of cannabis. It [...]

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Colorado’s Largest Medical Pot Evaluation

13. March 2010

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CannaMed – Colorado’s largest medical pot evaluation company – faces scrutiny for selling patient information Karen needed a medical marijuana card.  She’d smoked enough pot in her fifty years to know that it subdued her recurring headaches, her nausea, the pain that lingered from the knee surgery she’d had a few years earlier.  With all [...]

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MJ Legalization? A White House Rebuttal, Finally

13. March 2010

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Washington, D.C. — The Obama White House has finally laid out its most thorough, reasoned rebuttal to arguments for marijuana legalization – countering a campaign that is gaining alarming momentum at the state level. The president’s tough position was delivered in early March by his “drug czar,” Gil Kerlikowske, in a [...]

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Bill Would Let More Professionals OK Use of Medical Pot

13. March 2010

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The bill allowing patients to get medical-marijuana authorizations from a wider range of health-care professionals came a step closer to becoming law as it passed in the Legislature Thursday. Senate Bill 5798 extends the ability to authorize medical pot to a variety of other licensed health professionals in addition to MDs and [...]

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