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Naturopaths Included in Medical Marijuana Law

Nurse practitioners and physicians' assistants may also authorize medical cannabis.

(OLYMPIA, Wash.) - A bill to expand Washington State's medical marijuana law cleared the state legislature today, and is headed to the governor's desk.

More States Embrace Marijuana Decriminalization

Measures to impose a fine for marijuana possession make key advances this month in New Hampshire, Hawaii, and Vermont.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - With numerous states facing significant budget shortages, legislators and voters across the country this month have been giving overwhelming support to measures that would reduce the penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana to a civil fine.

Economic Benefits of Medical Marijuana Reform in Oregon

Comprehensive Marijuana reforms would increase revenues, create jobs, decrease law enforcement and incarceration expenditures, increase tourism, and create new educational opportunities in Oregon’s universities.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - The existing medical marijuana program in Oregon has been highly successful, but is in many ways less than optimal.

I am not personally a medical marijuana user, nor do I have any association with the organizers of the medical marijuana regulation campaign in Oregon.

Oregon NORML Charges Washington County with Unlawful Breach of OMMP Patient Confidentiality

Oregon's biggest group representing medical marijuana users, goes legal on the cops, alleging serious, direct violations of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act (OMMA):

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Patient confidentiality is possibly one of the cornerstones of American freedom. We may pay through the nose for healthcare in this land of freedom, but at least those records are our personal business.

Cannabis Science Coming to Australia`s Nimbin MardiGrass 2010

The annual MardiGrass festival brings activists from around the world to speak for marijuana decriminalization

(NIMBIN / SALEM) - “This is our eighteenth consecutive Rally for Cannabis Law Reform.

"We vowed to rally every year on the first weekend of May until we are no longer criminals for using cannabis."

Group Cries Foul Over U.N. Anti-Drug Agency Meddling with State Laws in the U.S.

International Narcotic Control Board says it is “deeply concerned” that states’ medical marijuana laws send “wrong message to other countries”.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Marijuana Policy Project today denounced efforts by the United Nations’ International Narcotic Control Board (INCB) — currently meeting in Vienna, Austria — to meddle in marijuana reform in the United States.

Cannabis / Marijuana and Bad Drug Interactions

Found by searching 'cannabis drug interactions'.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I have interviewed about 6,000 medical marijuana patients and I was totally bamboozled by the extreme variety of drugs that the patients had been given by their previous doctors for their various medical problems.

VA Continues to Forbid Doctors to Recommend Medical Marijuana to PTSD Patients

Veterans Affairs refuses to recognize marijuana as an effective medicine, proven to relieve PTSD symptoms suffered by the men and women who defend our nation.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - A 2008 study by the RAND Corporation showed that 20 percent of soldiers returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from PTSD.

What is Keeping Maryland from Passing a Medical Marijuana Law?

Despite overwhelming public support and virtually no opposition, key officials are still silent about their stance on the issue

(ANNAPOLIS) - Last Friday, Feb. 26, the Maryland House Judiciary and Health and Government Committees held a public hearing on a bill that would allow chronically ill patients to have safe access to medical marijuana with their doctor’s recommendation.

DEA Marijuana Seizures Nearly Double As Marijuana Production in Mexico Grows by 35%

Officials continue to waste money on futile attempts to stem production and violence, ignoring the only solution: a regulated marijuana market

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The total amount of marijuana seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration nearly doubled from 1,539 metric tons in 2008 to 2,980 metric tons in 2009, according to numbers disclosed by the DEA as part of their budget request for 2011.