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Article by J. Wesley Boyd, Psychology Today Marijuana reform is on the ballot in a number of states around the US, and as physicians and citizens we believe it ought to be fully legalized. Marijuana is safer than tobacco or alcohol, but that hasn’t stopped the tobacco and alcohol industries from lining up against legalizing cannabis.  Apparently these industries view ...

Article by Will Greenberg, Mother Jones With less than a month to go before Election Day, several state level marijuana legalization campaigns have rolled out messaging that pitches weed as an alternative to deadly opioid painkillers. This week, groups backing recreational legalization in Arizona and Massachusetts launched ads arguing marijuana should be an option for pain patients. Arizona’s Regulate Marijuana ...

Article by Joe LoTemplio and Lois Clermont, Press-Republican A candidate for the New York State Senate was arrested Sunday night in Tupper Lake. Stephen M. Ruzbacki, 51, of Minerva in Essex County, was charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, and for having an inadequate license-plate lamp light. Ruzbacki is the Green Party candidate for the 45th Senate District, ...

Article by Market Wired Whistler Medical Marijuana Corp (WMMC) today announced that they are the first Licensed Producer of medicinal cannabis in Canada to offer access to their strain genetics through the shipment of live plants. The move builds upon WMMC’s existing organic product range of both dried marijuana and cannabis oils which are already available to eligible patients as ...

Article by Jason Le Miere, International Business Times Medical marijuana is about to become a whole lot more accessible in Israel with pharmacies across the country expected to soon start providing the substance. Israel’s largest pharmacy chain, Super-Pharm, which has 225 branches across the country, has been meeting with health ministry officials over recent weeks to allow prescription dispensation of ...

Article by CTV Saskatoon A preliminary hearing began Thursday for three people arrested in a high-profile police raid at a Saskatoon medical marijuana dispensary last year. The dispensary’s owner Mark Hauk, alongside the two others, appeared in Saskatoon Provincial Court for the hearing as police officers involved in the raid were questioned on the witness stand. Hauk’s defence lawyer said ...

Article by Maureen Meehan, High Times Santa Fe Springs used to be an oil town, but now most of the adult population works in the light industry or service jobs, which center around shopping and strip malls. Growing pot in these malls seemed like a good idea to someone, at least until the cops recently raided one, seizing 5,000 plants. The quaintly-named ...

Article by Alison Noon, The Associated Press via The Times Colonist Political donors have spent a record $458 million on 17 statewide November ballot initiatives in California, beating the state’s own record for the most spent on propositions appearing on state ballots in a single year, campaign reports filed Thursday show. The fundraising has soared at least $20 million past ...

Article by Alexandra Sims, The Independant Turkey has legalised cannabis production in 19 provinces in order to crack down on illegal production, according to new regulations by The Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock. Published in the Official Gazette in late September, “Hemp Cultivation and Control of Regulations” will allow highly-controlled and ministry-sanctioned cannabis production in the selected provinces for ...

Article by Ray Spiteri, Niagara Falls Review Jeff McGuire doesn’t envy the position his former police chief colleague Bill Blair is in. Blair, who served as the Toronto Police chief from 2005 until his retirement in 2015, is now the parliamentary secretary to the federal Liberal justice minister, and is handling the government’s pot legalization file. “I got a lot ...