ASA in the News

High School Students Getting Medical Marijuana Cards In California

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

, KSDK TV San Diego Some California teens are giving a new meaning to "high" school.Students are finding easy access to medical marijuana cards and presenting those cards to school authorities as a legitimate excuse for getting high.

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Azusa council poised to approve ban on pot dispensaries

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

, Associated Press AZUSA, Calif. -- The city is poised to join several others across California in banning medical marijuana dispensaries.The City Council planned to vote Tuesday on an ordinance designed to prohibit the so-called "pot clubs." Officials approved the...

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Turku man becomes Finland's first legal user of medicinal marijuana

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

Tommi Nieminen, HELSINGIN SANOMAT      The apartment is nothing like a dingy drug den; no yellowed posters of hemp leaves, the Grateful Dead, or Haile Selassie adorn the walls.      A wall clock just ticks on one of them.       Aulis...

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Board to discuss medical marijuana ID card after tentative ruling supports Prop

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

Shayla Ashmore, Lassen News (CA) The medical marijuana identification card program will be back before the Lassen County Board of Supervisors sometime after Jan. 1 due to a San Diego County Superior Court ruling that counties must follow the state’s...

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Michigan tackles medical, recreational marijuana

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

Associated Press, WOOD TV8 (MI) Charles Snyder III says his rare disorder, nail patella syndrome, sometimes leaves him in so much pain he'd nearly be bedridden without pain medication -- such as marijuana.

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Boca man credits medical marijuana for his health

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

Eliot Kleinberg, Palm Beach Post On Monday, Irvin Rosenfeld started his 25th year of smoking nearly a dozen joints a day. Getting busted is the least of his problems. His more than 200 bone tumors were supposed to continue to...

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Tracy pot store to be shut down

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

Phil Hayworth, Tracy Press (CA) “Sally” describes herself as a 50-year-old professional in the education field who uses marijuana to relax back muscles that often get so tense that she can’t sleep. Her doctor recently prescribed marijuana for the tension,...

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DEA, police serve search warrant at local marijuana dispensary

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

K Kaufmann and Marie McCain, The Desert Sun A medical marijuana-laced “tip” left for an employee at Palm Springs’ Spa Resort & Casino in September ended with a search-and-seizure raid on a Palm Springs medical marijuana dispensary on Wednesday.

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Medical Marijuana and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

Anthony Gregory, LewRockwell.com On Tuesday, Drug Enforcement Administration agents swooped down upon the premier medical marijuana club in California’s Bay Area, targeting its dispensary and seven ancillary locations in San Francisco and Oakland. By destroying and confiscating property, seizing medical...

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Medical Marijuana Prohibition

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

Kenneth Michael White, OP/ED, opinioneditorials.com Since California first did it in 1996, several other States have decriminalized medical marijuana, even though the Federal Government considers all marijuana to be contraband. Despite the constant threat of Federal criminal sanction, there are...

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