Pot Block! Trapped in the Marijuana Rescheduling Maze

| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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

| 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?

| 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

| 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

| 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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Palm Springs rethinks marijuana dispensary rules

| September 12, 2013 |

Xochitl Peña, The Desert Sun The city’s medical marijuana ordinance may be amended to require cannabis quality testing before the pot is dispensed to patients — a mandate that could be the only one in California, according to city leaders...

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Bill would increase state's oversight of pot clubs

| September 09, 2013 |

Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle With federal authorities demanding more oversight of California's medicinal marijuana dispensaries, the state Legislature is again trying to create order where there has been chaos.

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