Northwest Medical Cannabis Alliance

A bipartisan group in the House has proposed some major changes that seek to restore Montana’s medical marijuana law to what people thought they were voting on in 2004. Rep.  Cary Smith, R-Billings, said the amendments will be offered today at a 3 p.m.  hearing before the House Human Services Committee on Senate Bill 423, by [...]

A bipartisan group in the House has proposed some major changes that seek to restore Montana’s medical marijuana law to what people thought they were voting on in 2004. Rep. Cary Smith, R-Billings, said the amendments will be offered Wednesday at a 3 p.m. hearing before the House Human Services Committee [...]

In a year when state lawmakers are looking for all the pain relief they can get, Gov. Dannel Malloy’s medical marijuana bill had relatively little trouble making it through the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee Tuesday. Opponents tried to apply some legislative herbicide to the bill in the form of an [...]

Here’s what Shayne Lynn envisions somewhere in Chittenden County: an office as non-descript as a doctor’s office or a pharmacy from which he would sell marijuana to those with qualifying medical conditions. There’d be a waiting room.  Clients would be seen by appointment only.  There’d be security.  He might also offer clients [...]

What is it about Willie Nelson, weed and the law? It’s been a question worth asking since at least 1971, when Mr.  Nelson brought together rednecks and hippies at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin with his unique style of country music and his open attitude about marijuana.  His eldest [...]

Almost nobody likes the unwieldy Michigan Medical Marihuana Act — right down to its spelling of marijuana with an “H.” The law is written without clarity on some key issues, such as what constitutes a bonafide doctor-patient relationship and the conditions under which marijuana cultivation is permitted. Unless clarifying legislation is enacted, enforcement of [...]

Reaction to Judges’ Decision 95% Positive Were the judges right or wrong? A man suffered spinal injuries in a car accident, leaving him with chronic pain only relieved by marijuana.  His insurance company refused to pay for this medication.  But Quebec judges believed that “personal experience” must be considered when deciding if a patient is [...]

Were the judges right or wrong? A man suffered spinal injuries in a car accident leaving him with chronic pain only relieved by marijuana.  His insurance company refused to pay for this medication.  But Quebec judges believed that “personal experience” must be considered when deciding if a patient is helped by medication.  They ruled [...]

Arizonans now know what steps they must take before legally growing, selling or using medical marijuana, according to Arizona state laws. The Arizona Department of Health Services finished making its policy decisions regarding the medical marijuana rules and posted them on its Web site Monday. To download a PDF file of [...]

With just three weeks left in the 2011 legislative session, it’s as unclear now as it was three months ago what lawmakers finally will do with the difficult medical marijuana issue. Despite hundred of hours of work on the issue by many legislators, the options remain the same as they were in [...]

Over, the past decade, New England has quietly emerged as a center of marijuana law reform. Outside of the West, no other region of the country has matched the advances of that historic corner of America bounded by New York, Canada, and the North Atlantic. Is there something in the maple [...]

A lawsuit filed last week by the Montana Medical Growers Association, a medical marijuana advocacy group, seeks to clarify whether caregivers can transport medical marijuana, cultivate medical marijuana for other caregivers, or sell medical marijuana to other caregivers under state law. The group filed the suit March 23 on behalf of two men facing felonies after [...]

The medical marijuana industry is beginning to show its age. After humble California beginnings in 1996, 15 states and the District of Columbia now have legalized marijuana use for ill patients who have a doctor’s recommendation. Medical marijuana has been found to help with chronic pain, nausea and other symptoms of diseases [...]

For a brief time earlier this month the National Cancer Institute, a branch of the federal government’s National Institutes of Health, had posted a webpage touting the possible benefits of marijuana in fighting cancer tumors. But less than two weeks after it went up, the webpage was altered and the approving [...]

Rep.  Stanley Torres ( Ind-Saipan ) introduced on the House floor yesterday a bill seeking to legalize marijuana use in the CNMI for medical and recreational use, barely four months since the Senate killed his previous proposal of the same nature. “The legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis in the Commonwealth will [...]

Health Canada’s Policy Sparks Controversy There are houses in Abbotsford where pot is growing with the sanction of the federal government, and neither the Abbotsford Police nor city hall knows where they are. Even Health Canada, which licenses these grow-ops, is not allowed to enter these residences to enforce regulations without the owner’s consent.  It’s a system [...]

Arizonans who qualify will soon be able to possess, use and grow their own marijuana, even before medical marijuana dispensaries open later this year. State health officials on Monday made the forms available on the agency’s website that a doctor has to fill out to get a patient a medical [...]

When Willie Nelson found himself in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service in the 1990s, it nearly cost him everything he had. But now that country-music outlaw may be able to escape more recent legal troubles for little more than a song. Kit Bramblett, the county attorney for Hudspeth County in West [...]

As medicines go, marijuana surely is unique. There is ample evidence that marijuana does offer some relief more effectively than conventional medications to some patients who suffer from some serious ailments, including multiple sclerosis, AIDS and cancer. But unlike any prescription drug, marijuana has not been tested and certified safe by any governmental agency.  In fact, California [...]

The Senate on Saturday refused to blast out of committee the House speaker’s stalled bill that would repeal Montana’s medical marijuana law July 1, possibly dealing it a lethal blow. Over in the House, representatives passed a bill on a preliminary vote to let voters decide in November 2012 whether to [...]