By Evan Bury for NRVNews In the 2021 Medical Cannabis Access State Report Card by Americans for Safe Access, Virginia received an overall score of a D+. Virginia’s worst ranking was in the access to medicine category in which the...
Read moreU.S. Senator Tim Kaine joined Brian Schatz (D-HI) and his colleagues April 20 in reintroducing legislation to allow doctors at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to prescribe medical marijuana to veterans in states with established medical marijuana programs, including...
Read moreApril 21, 2023 - Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley and Senate colleagues this week reintroduced legislation that would allow doctors at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to prescribe medical cannabis to veterans in Oregon and other...
Read moreIn its annual “State of the States” report, Americans for Safe Access (ASA) gave 13 state medical cannabis programs failing grades. In the report, the ASA gave failing grades to Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, South...
Read moreBy Lucero Lopez, San Antonio Express-News, Austin Bureau While expansion of the compassionate use program offers more options for Texans, the state would continue to have one of the most restrictive medical marijuana programs in the country, according to a...
Read moreBy Alina Butler for CannabizMD According to a national review delivered by Americans for Safe Access, the regulations of each state determine who can do testing. For example, when comparing the cannabis regulations of Maryland, Colorado, California, Oregon, New York,...
Read moreKate Ashford of NerdWallet for Associated Press “This medicine is so expensive,” says Debbie Churgai, executive director of Americans for Safe Access, a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. “There are...
Read moreBy Natalie Fertig for Politico “Most people view [medical marijuana] access right now through one lens: and that is, ‘Does the state have [a] legal access program? But there are so many other barriers to access within the states that...
Read moreBy Nicole Potter for High Times Six Rhode Island legislators have sponsored a bill that aims to fine groups of three or more people if cannabis or other “hallucinogenic substances” are present. S-125 was introduced in Rhode Island on Feb....
Read moreBy Madeline Colli for Cannabis Patient Care For more than 20 years, Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists, and citizens, have been advocating for cannabis to be seen as a form...
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