Tag: Medical Marijuana

Denver attorney Robert Corry spoke out this week against federal scare tactics he said were being used to create uncertainty in Colorado's medical marijuana community.

Colorado now joins the list of medical marijuana states that have been warned off by The United States Department of Justice, having received a letter from U.S. Attorney for Colorado John Walsh Tuesday.

In Montana, only 25 percent of medical marijuana businesses raided earlier this year have re-opened, prompting some patients to turn to street dealers as a safer way to get marijuana, according to MSNBC.

Could Colorado State employees who work in the regulatory end of the medical marijuana business be prosecuted for their role in what the federal government increasingly seems to view as an illegal enterprise? According to Department of Justice attorneys in Washington State, it is not outside the realm of possibility.

BOULDER-- For years, smack-dab in the middle of the University of Colorado campus, this town has hosted one of the biggest annual 4/20 pro-marijuana smoke-ins in the nation. Yesterday's installment, coming amid the great legalized medical marijuana transition in this state, produced a kind of smoke signal sent out to the plains and coast dwellers from the top of the country. There is video, which is good, even though it leaves out the hazy skunk aroma that filled the air for miles and that left even non-participants dialed down.

The seeds of change are blowing in the medical marijuana business. If it isn't the federal government cracking down or the Legislature tightening the rules, it's big pharmaceutical companies looking for a piece of the pie.

Marijuana DUI bill amended to require more study before a limit is set. Bill could be amended back on the floor, but for now a victory for those who think a per se level isn't needed.

Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer last week vetoed legislation that would have overturned the state's medical marijuana law. He said he thought the law needed some work but that he could not let the Legislature toss out a law approved by 62 percent of Montana voters.

Jay Sanner is a cancer patient who says he was fired last month from his volunteer coaching position in Fountain Valley for being a medical marijuana red-card holder. Jay started taking medical marijuana in 2002 in hopes of replacing the legion of painkillers he was taking after breaking his back in the Army in the mid 1990s.

News came from both sides of the culture war over marijuana Tuesday, as the March arrest by DEA agents of a Saginaw, Mich., doctor who prescribed medical marijuana to patients comes to light a day after the Washington State House of Representatives passed a bill legalizing cannabis dispensaries and grow houses.