All bongs, pipes and vaporizers have been banned in Canada by the Conservative government. Selling these items is punishable with jail terms and some of the highest fines in the Criminal Code. Books that describe how to grow marijuana are also banned, as is any other written or video material used to “promote, encourage or…
PHOENIX — An Arizona prosecuting-attorneys association is withdrawing its support for a medical marijuana bill it helped craft and is aimed at protecting children from accidentally eating medical cannabis. The Arizona Republic reports (http://bit.ly/116Sp03 ) that the Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys’ Advisory Council voted last week to no longer support Senate Bill 1440 because it conflicts…
State lawmakers voted Thursday to put new limits on the packaging of food and drinks containing medical marijuana. SB 1440 would make it illegal to sell or advertise products that are packaged in any way that suggests that it is anything other than for medicinal use. Rep. Kimberly Yee, R-Phoenix, said she saw evidence that…
As the father of two young boys, I have great respect for the good work of Keep Arizona Drug Free, even as I may disagree with their political punditry, as expressed in the Feb. 22 commentary “Marijuana legalization is far from inevitable.” The point of the piece was seemingly to give political safe harbor to elected…
The case against Nature’s Harvest and several of its employees for allegedly selling medical marijuana and running a criminal enterprise continued Thursday. It was the first case management conference since prosecutors arraigned the business, its founder and an employee. A grand jury indicted Nature’s Harvest founder and director Sheelah Golliglee last month for running a…
CHICAGO (AP) — Eight former U.S. drug chiefs warned the federal government Tuesday that time is running out to nullify Colorado and Washington’s new laws legalizing recreational marijuana use, and a United Nations agency also urged challenges to the measures it says violate international treaties. The former Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs criticized Barack Obama’s…
A research team based in Poland may have discovered that CBD is a major component of the flax plant. The Cannabis plant also makes CBD (Cannabidiol), a miraculous plant compound that demonstrates the potential to treat a wide range of diseases with virtually no side effects. Interestingly, the researchers discovered the presence of CBD in flax accidently. They were analyzing genetically…
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona lawmakers want to overhaul the state’s medical marijuana law. One lawmaker would shut down dispensaries that use unclear labels for its food products. Another measure would allow colleges and universities to conduct medical marijuana research. A third would allow county zoning ordinances to apply to marijuana cultivation. “It was the voters…
“No medical authority would say it’s helping you. They all say it’s harming you.” – State Rep. John Kavanagh, on medical marijuana It starts the minute he wakes up and puts his feet on the floor. The nausea quickly builds from the base of his stomach to the back of his throat, and he tries…
An anti-drug group financed by the Arizona Cardinals is backing a new ballot measure that would rescind Arizona’s new medical marijuana law and outlaw new dispensaries that have started opening. Keep AZ Drug Free has endorsed a bill put forward in the Arizona Legislature asking voters to repeal the medical marijuana legalization measure they narrowly passed…
PHOENIX -Arizona voters could get the chance to repeal the state’s medical marijuana program. Republican State Representative John Kavanagh is proposing to repeal Proposition 203, which was approved back in 2010. Prop 203 allows people with a doctor’s recommendation to get a medical marijuana card, which they can use to attain up to 2.5 ounces…
People who thought teens would be using marijuana more because of Arizona’s 2010 medical-pot law are wrong, a new study shows. Combined, the percentage of 8th, 10th and 12th graders who reported using marijuana at least once in their lives went from 29.9 percent before the law passed to 28.7 percent in 2012, according to…
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