California Medical Marijuana News
May 17, 2012
The Chico News & Review, 17 May 2012 - Ordinance's Flaws Outweigh Its Good Points We're aware that medical-marijuana cultivation often has little or nothing to do with medicine. We also know that marijuana gardens can be a nuisance to neighbors, and that the number of gardens has increased exponentially in recent years. And we understand that Butte County's medical-marijuana-cultivation ordinance is an effort to lessen the nuisance factor.
May 17, 2012
Porterville Recorder, 17 May 2012 - THE ISSUE County effort to curb illegal marijuana growing. OUR VIEW Laws needed to be strengthened. The new county ordinance which shortens the time a grower of marijuana has to comply with county zoning laws was needed and should help to curb the illegal growing of marijuana in Tulare County.
May 17, 2012
Sacramento News & Review, 17 May 2012 - Re "High on Romney" by Nick Miller (SN&R The 420, May 10): You've got to be blasted out of your mind-or you got some bad dope-to think Mitt Romney and the "anti-everything" religious forces will be better for your marijuana habit.
May 17, 2012
Globe and Mail, 18 May 2012 - For years, multiple sclerosis patients have told doctors that smoking marijuana makes them feel better. Now there is research to back up those assertions. The study, published this week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found that cannabis eased pain by 50 per cent and reduced spasticity, or muscle stiffness, by 30 per cent.
May 17, 2012
Appeal-Democrat, 16 May 2012 - Sutter County supervisors took the first step toward a medical marijuana nuisance ordinance on Tuesday evening in a slightly more subdued, but no less scrutinized, fashion than other jurisdictions have approached the issue. County officials said they were trying to take the cautious approach, introducing a draft ordinance at a board workshop while also emphasizing they wanted feedback before voting on it later.
May 17, 2012
Toronto Star, 14 May 2012 - Smoking marijuana can relieve muscle tightness, spasticity (contractions) and pain often experienced by those with multiple sclerosis, says research out of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. The findings, just published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, included a controlled trial with 30 participants to understand whether inhaled cannabis would help complicated cases where existing pharmaceuticals are ineffective or trigger adverse side effects.
May 15, 2012
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.
May 15, 2012
Press-Enterprise, 14 May 2012 - As an educated, conservative housewife and writer with fibromyalgia, I may not seem a likely medical marijuana candidate. Yet, 15 months ago I went from debilitating pain, migraines, panic attacks, memory issues, depression and exhaustion, to fully functioning in just days. But Riverside County has been cracking down on dispensaries ("Medical marijuana dispensary raided," April 4). For a month, I lacked access to medication, reverting to my former agony.
May 12, 2012
The Exponent, 10 May 2012 - Out of Control Marijuana Grows Prompt Federal Action Locally The federal government has launched "Operation Mercury" which trumps state law in a new effort to eradicate an out of control marijuana problem in areas such as Squaw Valley.
May 12, 2012
The Union, 11 May 2012 - ASA Rallies Members to Overturn Cannabis Cultivation Ordinance Americans for Safe Access - Nevada County is holding an Emergency Town Hall Meeting to rally members of the community who are opposed to the newly enacted Medical Marijuana Ordinance.
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