Our view: We don't want to emulate California's freewheeling medical cannabis program, but doctors, not judges, should decide when a drug is medically necessary.

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Das Selbsthilfenetzwerk Cannabis als Medizin wird künftig die jeweils interessantesten Nachrichten des Monats im Zusammenhang mit Cannabis bzw. Cannabis als Medizin veröffentlichen. Sinn dieser Maßnahme ist eine verbesserte Aufklärung von Patienten, Angehörigen und sonstigen Interessierten an der gängigen bundesrepublikanischen Cannabis-Politik, welche unter Milliarden-Aufwand weiterhin an der Kriminalisierung und Repression von Kranken (oder Genusswilligen) festhält, dabei jedoch aktuelle internationale Trends einer Cannabis-Freigabe zu medizinischen Zwecken (sowie Regulierung und Besteuerung) komplett ignoriert. Unser besonderes Augenmerk wird bei der Dokumentation sachdienlicher Presse-Artikel und sonstiger Neuigkeiten aus der Cannabis-Nachrichtenwelt den jeweiligen Antworten der Drogenbeauftragten Mechthild Dyckmans und ihrer auf dem Portal www.abgeordnetenwatch.de öffentlich bekundeten Drogenpolitik gelten.

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Los Angeles Tuesday gave final approval to an ordinance slashing the number of medical marijuana dispensaries, which have grown to almost 1,000 since sale of the drug for medicinal use was approved in 1996.

By a 9-3 vote, the Los Angeles City Council said 187 dispensaries would remain open for now, but it intends to reduce the number to no more than 70 over time.

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Dispensary operators say L.A. marijuana ordinance will harm patients
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The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to close roughly 800 medical marijuana dispensaries in the city by passing the first reading of an ordinance which would also require 75% of remaining dispensaries to relocate. The vote, to be confirmed in a second reading of the ordinance next Tuesday, will radically change the landscape of medical marijuana distribution in Los Angeles, which has been largely unregulated since dispensaries were first authorized by state law in 1996.

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The California Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law limiting medical marijuana patients to having eight ounces of pot at one time. The court stated that the law was drawn up by the legislature, and only the people have the right to amend voter-approved propositions such as the one in question, Prop. 215.

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Green is their signature color. Medicinal marijuana gardeners throughout the state of Oregon enjoyed a plentiful harvest last fall, and look to 2010 as a year of growth, and change.

“After living through arrests in the past for growing marijuana, to be able to do it legally, it’s almost entirely stress-free compared to when it was illegal. So to be able to help the people that need this - it warms our hearts,” said Paul Stanford, Executive Director of The Hemp & Cannabis Foundation. The fear of breaking the law has stopped most people for seven decades from considering marijuana, or cannabis, to treat their ailments. That is no longer the rule of the day, as this medical marijuana garden clearly proves.

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Backers of a new medical marijuana initiative announced today that they have collected over 75,000 signatures on petitions to place Initiative #28 on the November 2010 ballot. The new initiative would add a regulated supply system of dispensaries and producers to the current medical marijuana law which requires patients to produce their own medicine.
Backers need 82,769 valid signatures by July 2, 2010 to place the measure on the November ballot. New election laws require all chief petitioners to turn in signatures collected by paid circulators monthly. All paid signatures collected so far must be turned in by January 15. Backers of I 28
will hold a press conference in the media room of the State Capitol at 11:00 am Monday January 11 before chief petitioners turn the signatures in to the Secretary of State's office at 11:30am.
These are the first signatures turned in under the new election law.

People must register with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program with a doctor’s approval in order to receive a medical marijuana card, and they must also be members of the Oregon chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, or NORML, to get into the cafe.

There is a $20 monthly fee and a $5 cover charge as well.

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