Posted by Americans for Safe Access · March 05, 2007 7:00 PM
Elizabeth Coe, The Capital (MD)
Barry Considine has lived with nearly constant pain for almost 10 years, and his condition is getting worse.
Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · January 17, 2007 7:00 PM
Kevin Martin, Calgary Sun (Canada)
Growing pot for medical marijuana crusader Grant Krieger won’t mean jail for a former Calgary man, a judge ruled today.
Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · January 01, 2007 7:00 PM
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 new rule unanimously on its first reading last month.
Posted by Americans for Safe Access · December 19, 2006 7:00 PM
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.Posted by Americans for Safe Access · November 27, 2006 7:00 PM
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 medical-marijuana laws regardless of federal drug statutes.
Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · November 27, 2006 7:00 PM
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.
Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · November 20, 2006 7:00 PM
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 grow until they left him paralyzed or caused a clot to break loose and kill him. Without his'medicine,' which he's received since 1982, 'I definitely believe that would have happened by now,' the stockbroker with offices in West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale said Monday.
Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · November 20, 2006 7:00 PM
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, and she remembers how well it worked 10 years ago when she had cancer and the chemotherapy made her so sick that she had no appetite. Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · November 15, 2006 7:00 PM
Gene Maddaus , Daily Breeze (CA)
Weeks after ordering two medical marijuana dispensaries to close, the Gardena City Council imposed a moratorium on such facilities Tuesday night.
Read morePosted by Americans for Safe Access · October 26, 2006 8:00 PM
Ian Hanigan, Daily Breeze
Federal agents raided the Torrance shop and jailed four who allegedly tried to sell marijuana to agents from a countywide task force.
