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Marijuana Legalization a Step in the Right Direction for Social Progress, Says United Patients Group PRWeb – Sat, Nov 10, 2012 The ballots have been cast. The people have been heard. But now that the smoke has cleared, how does the medical marijuana community stand on the new cannabis policies in Washington and Colorado, the first two states to ever approve ballot initiatives that legalize recreational marijuana use? United Patients Group explains. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 10, 2012 On Tuesday, both Washington and Colorado became the first states to ever pass measures to legalize recreational marijuana use. Medical marijuana resource UnitedPat…

The American Public Is Doing a 180 on Marijuana Prohibition...How Come the Politicians Aren't? Public opinion on marijuana is moving fast, and pols will eventually follow. November 9, 2012 | The election results this week from Washington, Colorado, Massachusetts and Arkansas demonstrate that public opinion about cannabis has moved much faster than the positions of elected officials. That Massachusetts voters would pass a fairly loosely regulated medical marijuana system isn’t very surprising. But that voters in Arkansas came within a whisker of passing one shows that it isn’t just a hippie-dippie issue anymore. And for Colorado and Washington to take t…

09:02 AM ET How will White House respond to Washington, Colorado votes? By Shannon K. O'Neil, CFR Editor's Note:Shannon K. O'Neil is senior fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. This entry of Latin America's moment first appeared here. The views expressed are her own. As Americans went to the polls to elect their president last week, voters in Colorado and Washington chose to legalize marijuana (by referendum). Not only does this create conflicting state and federal laws, but it also directly challenges the United States’ war on drugs. These initiatives, Colorado’s Amendment 64 and Washington’s Initiative 502, directly c…

Mate sent me this link and thought I would forward it on. The whole site has some good info to sift through. http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000881 No probs if Mods have to delete this for some reason.

Southern Oregon is medical pot country Patients, growers flock to pair of counties in unusually high numbers By Associated Press Sunday, November 11, 2012 PORTLAND—- Josephine County is home to the highest concentration of medical marijuana patients in the state, according to an Oregonian newspaper analysis of state marijuana data. Statewide, 15 out of 1,000 Oregonians are medical marijuana patients. Jackson County has more than twice that many, and Josephine County has more than triple the state average, the newspaper reported Sunday. This rural swath of the state is the heart of Oregon marijuana country, known for highly productive cannabis plants that ch…

Some updated news on the Sativex trials http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/cannabis-spray-may-help-severely-ill-cope-with-pain-20121028-28djr.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/11/colorado-marijuana-law http://imageceu1.247realmedia.com/0/default/empty.gif 'This is the beginning of the end for marijuana prohibition across the world' Colorado voted to legalise recreational use last week in a move that could hurt the cartels and challenge the long US 'war on drugs' http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pixies/2012/11/11/1352596058055/University-of-Colorado-008.jpg A woman holds a sign at a pro-marijuana rally at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters Another glass facade among a string of restaurants, boutiques and offices in downtown Denver…

http://www.examiner....approval/?cs=95 TASMANIAN farmers have welcomed scientific approval of industrial hemp seed being grown in Australia as a food source. That decision still has to be accepted or appealed against by state and federal governments within the next two months.Food Standards Australia and New Zealand yesterday announced that it had approved the use of hemp seeds with very low psychoactive properties in food oils and to be eaten as seeds. Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association chief executive Jan Davis said that if the ruling was accepted, it would allow farmers to diversify. ``There is a global demand for it as a fibre, used in rope and clothing,…

Some argue if this bill is a step forward or back but I think most mj advocates feel that despite the negatives this is a move in the right direction. The 220 odd misdemeanour's that were dropped in Pierce and King county were a positive from the bill, that's a given but I think there is a issue with the media being unusually quiet on the negative aspects, especially the D.U.I.D provision. One definite is that the public is not being informed that the marijuana legalization could be a state power grab in sheep's clothing. I hope that the talks to make the new laws more user friendly are something that will actually happen and not just idealism. The tax rate is just rid…