Dr Tim England
Month: December 2013
Michigan House passes bills to legalize ‘edible’ pot products, clarify law
Written by Kathleen Gray Gannett Michigan
A third bill, SB 660 which passed on an 87-22 vote, would provide for the licensure and regulation of facilities to grow and test pharmaceutical grade pot and allow those facilities to sell the drug to pharmacies to dispense. The bill, which has already passed the Senate, is contingent upon the federal government reclassifying marijuana from an illegal to a prescription drug. Since minor changes were made in the bill in the House, it needs to go back to the Senate for concurrence before it heads to Gov. Rick Snyder for his signature.
Will California be the next State to relegalize Cannabis?
RMForbes
It’s long past the time to end the failed prohibition against the cannabis genus of plants. We could use your help to get the word out. Please help us get the California Cannabis Hemp Initiative of 2014 on the ballot for next November. We have only a little over two months left to get this done.
Full Article:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/11/1262038/-Will-California-be-the-next-State-to-relegalize-Cannabis
Washington state Liquor Board says keep home grows for medical marijuana
Posted by Bob Young
Washington state Liquor Control Board members signaled today they will recommend to lawmakers that medical-marijuana patients be allowed to continue growing pot in their homes.
Board members would allow qualified patients, or designated providers, to grow up to six plants, three flowering and three non-flowering. A formal recommendation, expected at next week’s board meeting, would reverse a proposal by staff at three state departments — Health, Revenue and the Liquor Control Board (LCB) – to outlaw home growing.
Full Article:
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2013/12/liquor-board-says-keep-home-grows-for-medical-marijuana/#.Uqnls_e92E4.facebook
Poll: Majority of Californians Want To Release Marijuana Offenders From Prison
Though other polls released this fall showed over 60 percent of California voters in favor of ending marijuana prohibition, Field revealed something more radical: over half of voters are in favor of letting all nonviolent marijuana offenders out of jail.
Full Article:
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2013/12/latest_poll_majority_of_califo.php
Uruguay legalizes sale and production of marijuana
A man smokes a joint during a march for the legalization of marijuana towards the Legislative Palace in Montevideo, on December 10, 2013 (AFP Photo / Pablo Porciuncula)
Uruguay has become the first country in the world to legalize both the sale and production of marijuana. President Jose Mujica has championed the measure as a way of combatting the illegal drugs industry that has decimated parts of Uruguay.
Full Article:
http://rt.com/news/uruguay-legalizes-sale-marijuana-987/
Smoke Screen – It’s time for the NFL to embrace a new pain reliever: marijuana
By Howard Bryant
Mark Smith for ESPN
States are legalizing it. More and more Americans approve of it. Is the NFL next?
This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s Dec. 23 Interview Issue. Subscribe today!
THE TRUEST WAY to see the NFL is not before the game, when the helmets are shiny and the energy is high, but after the final whistle, when the bodies are bruised and the athletic tape is soiled with dirt and blood. Or at the practice facility the following day, when the players show up with crutches and walking casts, fingers in splints, arms in slings.
Pain is the singular constant of the NFL. Maintenance of that pain is as vital to players as mastering the read-option; whether through cortisone, painkillers or drugs and alcohol, they have always self-medicated to heal from the game that breaks their bodies. Which is why, more than any other sport, the NFL should lead the conversation on considering medicinal marijuana as a therapeutic alternative.
Full Article:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/10110004/is-nfl-embrace-marijuana-espn-magazine
This Former DEA Agent Is Going to Work in the Marijuana Business
Patrick Moen is a 36-year-old former supervisor at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, where, until recently, he led a team based in Portland that fought methamphetamine and heroin traffickers.
Now, he is embarking on a career change. A rather dramatic one. The Wall Street Journal reports today in a delightful article that Moen has become the in-house lawyer at Privateer Holdings Inc., “a private-equity firm that invests solely in businesses tied to the budding legal marijuana industry.”
Full Article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/12/this-former-dea-agent-is-going-to-work-in-the-marijuana-business/282197/
Video: Medical marijuana helps woman with cerebral palsy – Vote in the poll
by Shellie Nelson
A woman who suffers impairment from cerebral palsy says – and shows – smoking marijuana helps ease her symptoms.
Jacqueline Patterson was featured in a documentary called, “In Pot We Trust,” which explores the politics and uses of medical marijuana.
Patterson’s cerebral palsy causes problems with some of her physical coordination and speech.
She says she moved away from Kansas City to California on the advice of a child protective service worker who was aware of her marijuana use and of her desire to keep custody of her children.
Patterson later reportedly won a court case defending her consumption as strictly for medical purposes.
Tell us in the poll below – do you think medical marijuana should be legal in all states?
Video and Poll:
http://wqad.com/2013/12/10/video-medical-marijuana-helps-woman-with-cerebral-palsy/
NY approved medical marijuana law — then spaced on it
By Carl Campanile
Holy smoke!
Here’s a little-known fact to give sick folks high hopes — New York already has a law on the books to dispense marijuana to cancer patients.
Full Article:
http://nypost.com/2013/12/08/ny-approved-medical-pot-law-then-spaced-on-it/