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Pot-dispensary crackdown activates search for options

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

David Olson, Press-Enterprise (CA) As the number of medical-marijuana dispensaries in the Inland area dwindles, patients are looking for other options while their advocates try to shield them from arrest.

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Planners oppose marijuana dispensaries

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, CA) FONTANA - The city Planning Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to recommend that the city ban medical-marijuana dispensaries as a land use. Other area cities, including Yucaipa, Rancho Cucamonga, Claremont and Pomona, have...

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Medical marijuana violation arrests soar in Siskiyou

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

Paul Boerger, Mt. Shasta News (CA) Siskiyou County Public Defender Lael Kayfetz has been with the department for nearly two years and she says in the last year arrests and citations for violation of medical marijuana recommendation holders has “quadrupled.”

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Cannabis helps treat allergic reactions

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

, New Zealand Herald A cannabis folk remedy has been resurrected by scientists who found that active ingredients in the drug reduce allergic reactions.

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Post-polio sufferer wants medical marijuana legalized

Paul Marini | October 07, 2022

Elizabeth Coe, The Capital (MD) Barry Considine has lived with nearly constant pain for almost 10 years, and his condition is getting worse.

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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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