Record Searchlight, 08 Mar 2023 - The group looking to oust three Redding City Council members for their vote to ban medical marijuana dispensaries can now begin collecting signatures on the recall petitions, the local man orchestrating the recall said Thursday. But they'll now need to convince more than 9,000 Redding voters to sign the petitions to put […]
Washington Post, 15 May 2012 - MARIJUANA MAY HELP RELIEVE MUSCLE TIGHTNESS LINKED TO MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS THE QUESTION Marijuana has been investigated as a medicinal aid for people with cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and other conditions. Might smoking marijuana help relieve the muscle spasticity in people with multiple sclerosis? […]
Daily Press, 15 May 2012 - DISPENSARY, LANDLORD FACE $1,500 DAILY IN FINES HESPERIA With a new medical marijuana dispensary in town, Hesperia officials are touting a tough policy that could hit both the dispensary and its landlord with fines that can reach $1,500 a day after a 24-day warning period. […]
Howard Wooldridge of Citizens Opposing Prohibition is riding his bike across the US to help end drug war + Mary Jane Borden with Drug War Facts & Terry Nelson of LEAP […]
Several interesting articles about the upcoming revisions to psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, for the new DSM 5. How Psychiatrists Make Drugs More Addictive by Jacob Sullum The next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, scheduled to be published a year from now, is expected to include a looser definition of addiction [... […]
One of the things we need to do in this country is fight the long-established notion in the general public (and most especially in the lawmakers) that an effective way to deal with something we don’t like is to use the government to ban it. The fact is that banning as an effective solution […]