Mont. court tosses suit by medical marijuana user
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- Mont. court tosses suit by medical marijuana user
- Carlos Santana wants bama to legalize marijuana
- Barney Frank and Ron Paul team up on hemp
- Signup for medical marijuana usage begins Monday
Mont. court tosses suit by medical marijuana user
The Associated Press
court tosses suit by medical marijuana userBy LEN IWANSKI – 1 day ago HELENA Mont. (AP) — Medical marijuana advocates complained Friday that Montana’s Supreme Court misread the law in ruling that the state’s Medical Marijuana Act does not protect an employee from being fired for using marijuana. The state’s high court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by a Kalispell man fired by Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. because of his state-sanctioned use of medical marijuana. Under the Montana law doctors can prescribe marijuana for those suffering from a chronic or debilitating disease. Mike Johnson who initiated the lawsuit tested positive for marijuana in 2006 in a random drug test.
Carlos Santana wants bama to legalize marijuana
Los Angeles Times
Arnold Schwarzenegger while he was at it. “I really believe that as soon as we legalize and decriminalize marijuana we can actually afford a really good governor who won’t keep taking money away from education and from teachers and send him back to Hollywood where he can do ‘D’ movies and we can get an ‘A’ governor” the multi-platinum Grammy winning guitarist said. Santana said he has a serious invitation for the new president: “Bring the brothers home and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America. ” ver 3 million people voted on questions to be asked to President bama for the online town hall that took place last week.
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Barney Frank and Ron Paul team up on hemp
San Francisco Chronicle
“It is unfortunate that the federal government has stood in the way of American farmers including many who are struggling to make ends meet from competing in the global industrial hemp market” said Paul adding that some of the Founding Fathers who grew hemp themselves “would surely find that federal restrictions on farmers growing a safe and profitable crop on their own land are inconsistent with the constitutional guarantee of a limited restrained federal government. Eric Steenstra president of the group “Vote Hemp” added that with all the recent discussion about Mexican drug wars “it is surprising that the tragedy of American hemp farming hasn’t come up as a no-brainer for reform” calling the plant “a versatile environmentally-friendly crop that has not been grown here for over 50 years because of a politicized interpretation of the nation’s drug laws by the Drug Enforcement Administration. President bama should direct the DEA to stop confusing industrial hemp with its genetically distinct cousin marijuana. ” He said jobs “would be created overnight as there are numerous U. companies that now have no choice but to import hemp raw materials worth many millions of dollars per year. According to Vote Hemp U.
Signup for medical marijuana usage begins Monday
Kalamazoo Gazette – MLive.com
Morphine and fentanyl had too many negative side effects and all of the drugs including the Percocet he takes now are highly addictive. With all that in mind Dunbar a Gobles native whose back pain is caused by a spinal injury and neuropathy plans to submit his application next week to have his name placed on Michigan’s Medical Marijuana Registry. The registry is part of the state’s medical marijuana law that was passed by voters in November and takes effect today. The Michigan Department of Community Health will begin receiving applications on Monday. Residents whose applications are approved will receive a registry identification card by mail. Dunbar said the medical marijuana will offer him a less-addictive option for pain relief and he is hopeful that using it will help him to lessen the amount of opiates he takes daily. “The nice thing (is) if there is (any chance of addiction to the medical marijuana) it’s so small it’s not even known” he said.