Frustrated with shortages, medical marijuana patients begin growing their own at home in Illinois
You are here: Home / Policy & Legal / Illinois / Frustrated with shortages, medical marijuana patients begin growing their own at home in Illinois February 28, 2020 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment Worried by widespread shortages of products at Illinois cannabis stores, medical marijuana patient David Kurfman took... Read more
Maine’s plan to ‘harmonize’ marijuana programs would wreak havoc, critics say
Maine wants to “harmonize” its medical and adult-use marijuana programs, but small growers, edible makers and retailers say the state’s proposed changes would drive them out of business and leave rural, cash-strapped patients without affordable medicine. The Office of Marijuana Policy told state lawmakers Wednesday that it wants the... Read more
More and more older adults are using marijuana
More and more older adults are using some form of marijuana, according to new survey data, and their doctors aren’t prepared to talk with them about it. The percentage of adults over the age of 65 who said they’d used some form of cannabis in the past year was... Read more
Trump administration doubles down on anti-marijuana position
You are here: Home / Policy & Legal / Trump administration doubles down on anti-marijuana position February 23, 2020 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment Trump has done little to reverse this appearance of an anti-marijuana sentiment building in the White House. Rather, a top Trump campaign spokesman doubled down... Read more
Grading the Presidential Candidates on Marijuana: Michael Bloomberg

Last fall, we ran a 13-part series taking a hard look at each of the 2020 presidential candidates’ history and views related to marijuana. We assigned each candidate a letter grade corresponding with our analysis (for the final summary post, go here). In that popular series, grading criteria was as follows: Current stance on marijuana:…

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Michigan medical marijuana stores halt sales due to computer glitch
Michigan medical marijuana dispensaries were unable to complete sales Tuesday, Feb. 18, due to a malfunction with the statewide tracking and monitoring computer system. The “patient lookup is down,” Marijuana Regulatory Agency spokesman Matthew Erickson confirmed Tuesday night. “We are working with Metrc to remedy the problem.” The problem... Read more
Alabama medical marijuana bill passes out of Senate committee
A bill to allow medical marijuana in Alabama cleared its first hurdle on Wednesday after the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send it to the full chamber. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Tim Melson, R-Florence, passed the committee 8 to 1. Sen. Larry Stutts, R-Sheffield, voted no; Sen. Sam... Read more
Power to the People: Kern County Measure D Will Give Voters Control of Medical Cannabis

Last week, I presented oral argument to the Fifth District Court of Appeal in support of the people’s right of referendum. Long story short, the Kern County Board of Supervisors banned medical marijuana dispensaries in 2011, the people protested via referendum petition, and to this day the County has refused to comply with the legal…

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Missouri faces complaints over how it licensed marijuana businesses. So who won?
February 19, 2020 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment As lawmakers meet again Wednesday to hear complaints about how medical marijuana business licenses were awarded, a review of Missouri records shows some of the country’s biggest pot chains and the board members of a state trade group were among the... Read more
Crossing the Cannabis Line in New Mexico
February 18, 2020 by AggregatedNews Leave a Comment Lawmakers cruise toward ditching out-of-state patients, namely Texans People who are not residents of New Mexico and who don’t have medical cannabis cards in other states would no longer be allowed to buy the medicine here under a proposed law change... Read more
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