ASA in the News

Mich. bill would allow medical pot sales at pharmacies

Paul Marini | November 05, 2013

Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press Medical marijuana users could buy tested and regulated pot from pharmacies under a bill passed Tuesday by the state Senate Government Operations Committee.

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Medical marijuana in Oregon: Medford, other cities trying to ban outlets

Paul Marini | November 01, 2013

Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian Starting early next year, Oregon will be home to a state-sanctioned medical marijuana retail industry, but some cities are already moving to keep these establishments from opening.

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Pot Block! Trapped in the Marijuana Rescheduling Maze

Paul Marini | October 30, 2013

Harmon Leon, The Nation One journalist-provocateur’s journey into the drug war bureaucracy shows why previous efforts to reschedule pot have been DEA’d on arrival.

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Study: Cannabis Compounds Can Kill Cancer Cells

Paul Marini | October 24, 2013

Steven Nelson, U.S. News & World Report Researcher says cannabinoids might treat cancer as well as billion-dollar drugs.

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Marijuana dispensary rules spur concerns

Paul Marini | October 21, 2013

Xochitl Peña, The Desert Sun Critics: Mandates in Palm Springs ordinance may be illegal.

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High court allows ban on marijuana prescriptions

Paul Marini | October 07, 2013

Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a San Francisco group's challenge Monday to the federal government's refusal to allow doctors to prescribe marijuana, leaving intact the government's classification of the drug as a dangerous substance with...

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High Court Rejects Appeal To Reclassify Marijuana

Paul Marini | October 07, 2013

Lance Duroni, Law360 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from several medical marijuana advocacy groups challenging the Drug Enforcement Administration’s decision to maintain marijuana as a Schedule I drug, the category reserved for the most...

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Should adult students be allowed to use medical marijuana at California colleges?

Paul Marini | October 03, 2013

Cody Drabble, Sacramento News & Review Legal pot and 21st-century student life collide in Sacramento.

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Government Seizing Kids Over Parents' Medical Pot

Paul Marini | October 01, 2013

David Downs, East Bay Express If you're a medical marijuana patient, and you are in the middle of a nasty divorce, and you live in a cultural backwater like Michigan or inland California - beware. Government workers will seize your...

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Infant Removed from Home, Parents Over Medical Marijuana

Paul Marini | September 30, 2013

Josh Crank, Lawyers.com Medical marijuana dispensaries have been raided and shuttered with such regularity in recent years that they spark only the occasional protest. But when Michigan’s Children’s Protective Services took 6-month-old Brielle “Bree” Green from her parents because her...

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