Chile’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that the government unconstitutionally revoked a company’s permit to grow medical marijuana. But a lawyer for the government said Chile remains a long way from allowing the production and sale of marijuana for therapeutic purposes. The court ruled unanimously that Chile’s agriculture service unfairly canceled the permit it granted Agrofuturo [...] [...]
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  | We recently had the pleasure of interviewing Steve DeAngelo the director of Harborside Health Center in Oakland,Ca. Look for this insightful view into America’s largest dispensary in our next issue of Cannabis Now Magazine. One of the things we discussed? Their upcoming profile in the Discovery Channel’s Weed Wars,airing next month. Stayed tuned [...] [...] Oakland’s Harborside Health Center — the largest medical marijuana dispensary on the West Coast — lost the first round in a high-stakes battle with the Internal Revenue Service that could spell trouble for the booming pot industry. In a letter to Harborside late last week,the IRS ruled that the dispensary cannot deduct standard business [...] [...] HELENA —The secretary of state’s office said Monday that medical-marijuana advocates have collected enough signatures to let voters next year retain or reject the stricter law,passed earlier this year by the Legislature,regulating the industry. A group called Patients for Reform —Not Repeal led the successful petition effort to put the new [...] [...] New study says medical marijuana dispensaries lower crime rates se crime levels. The RAND Corporation’s study looked at crime rates in the areas surrounding 600 dispensaries. 170 of those shops closed after the LA City Council passed an ordinance shutting 70% of dispensaries last year. The study claims crime increased up to 60% within a [...] [...] HELENA,Mont. (AP) — Federal prosecutors pursuing drug charges against Montana medical marijuana operators want to keep jurors from hearing any evidence at trial about the state’s medical pot law or whether the operators were complying with it. U.S. Department of Justice attorneys have made motions in at least two cases stemming from federal raids [...] [...] Arizona’s Attorney General has launched another legal battle over medical marijuana. Tom Horne intends to shut down groups he believes have been illegally providing medical marijuana to patients with cancer and other diseases. To that end Horne today filed suit,seeking to stop so-called “Cannibis Clubs”from giving marijuana to patients for a “membership fee.”[...] [...] The day after the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that medical marijuana dispensaries can be considered a public nuisance and could be shut down,two facilities in Ann Arbor have been raided and facilities all over the state have closed,including the Mt. Pleasant dispensary at the center of the turmoil. Compassionate Apothecary co-owner Matthew [...] [...] With city leaders embracing medical marijuana,at least one company is taking pot door-to-door. Dante Jones is a medical marijuana entrepreneur. His business was inspired by his own experience after a car wreck. “It became hard to walk,hard to stand,hard to move my muscles,”he said. The pain inspired the idea for Green [...] [...] Silver Spring-based Discovery Channel wants viewers to toke on its upcoming reality series “Weed Wars,” which follows two DC-raised siblings and their Oakland,CA clinic Harborside Health Center –the nation’s biggest dispenser of medical marijuana. Raised inside the Beltway where their dad worked for the Kennedy administration,the cannabis crusade of Harborside’s executive director Steve DeAngelo [...] [...] |  | |||
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