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The Irs War On Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
Published: Monday May 20th 3PM
Link: http://disinfo.com/2013/05/the-irs-war-on-medical-marijuana-dispensaries/
Description: Congressional Republicans with the Obama administration’s bipartisan support are all for using the IRS to target and decimate one sector of the U.S. economy medical marijuana providers. Alternet reports: The IRS employs Section 280E, a 1982 tax code addition that was a response to a drug dealer’s successful effort to claim his yacht, weapons, and even bribes as business expenses. Under 280E, individuals involved in the illicit sale of controlled substances — including marijuana... read more »
Feds Threaten Landlords Of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries With Forty Year Prison Sentences
Published: Wednesday May 1st 1PM
Link: http://disinfo.com/2013/05/feds-th...ies-with-forty-year-prison-sentences/
Description: Picture: Anti-Pot DA Melinda Haag Go into any strip mall “pain clinic” and grab a bottle of Oxycontin. Wander into a corner liquor store and grab a few bottles of Everclear and a pack of cigarettes. Load up on McDonald’s and Burger King until your heart explodes. All of that is fine. Meanwhile, controversy continues over the sale of a readily available, easily grown plant of proven medical benefit. A that law stands against the wishes of a majority of the populace is an unjust ... read more »
Man Denied Life-saving Liver Transplant Due To Medical Marijuana Usage
Published: Sunday April 28th 9PM
Link: http://disinfo.com/2013/04/man-den...plant-due-to-medical-marijuana-usage/
Description: Pic: Hupu2 CC Sick people being condemned to a painful, lingering death due to using a medicinal plant that doesn’t have the blessing of Big Pharma It’s the American Way Via Alternet: After being diagnosed with liver cancer in 2009, Norman B. Smith applied to the liver transplant list at Cedar-Sinai hospital. While waiting for a transplant, Mr. Smith underwent chemotherapy in an attempt to destroy the cancer eating away at his liver. This caused severe side-effects, common to many ca... read more »
New York Republican Who Voted Against Medical Marijuana Busted For Pot
Published: Tuesday March 19th 3PM
Link: http://disinfo.com/2013/03/new-yor...nst-medical-marijuana-busted-for-pot/
Description: The Wall Street Journal reports a pretty good example of political hypocrisy, with lawmaker Steve Katz, fresh off of helping defeat the legalization of medical marijuana in New York state for people who desperately need it: A Putnam County assemblyman received a ticket for marijuana possession Thursday after he was stopped for speeding on the New York State Thruway. Assemblyman Steve Katz, a 59-year-old Republican who voted no last year on a bill to legalize medical marijuana, had been traveling... read more »
Should Medical Marijuana Be Legalized For Dogs
Published: Thursday March 7th 11AM
Link: http://disinfo.com/2013/03/should-medical-marijuana-be-legalized-for-dogs/
Description: Pet website Dogster.com writes that veterinarians are awakening to the miraculous abilities of cannabis to heal sick animals: Christine L.’s Rottweiler, Sampson, had a rare form of blood cancer. After giving Sampson cannabis flower-bud material mixed with virgin coconut oil, whereas before Sampson had been too weak to walk, almost overnight he became a born-again youngster. “He was a puppy again, happy and playful,” Christine recalls. “Cannabis saved my dog’s life,&... read more »
Marijuana The New Normal In California
Published: Friday December 21st 4PM
Link: http://disinfo.com/2012/12/marijuana-the-new-normal-in-california/
Description: California often paves the way for cultural shifts in America and with the front page of the New York Times declaring that marijuana is so common that it might as well be legal in California, should we expect the whole nation to follow Let Colorado and Washington be the marijuana trailblazers. Let them struggle with the messy details of what it means to actually legalize the drug. Marijuana is, as a practical matter, already legal in much of California. No matter that its recreational use remain... read more »
Seven Year-old Girl Battles Leukemia With Medical Marijuana
Published: Tuesday November 27th 4PM
Link: http://disinfo.com/2012/11/seven-y...tles-leukemia-with-medical-marijuana/
Description: Seven-year old leukemia patient Mykayla Comstock receives a gram of cannabis oil a day to offset the side-effects of her chemotherapy. While both Mykayla and her mom say that the cannabis has been essential in maintaining her appetite, helping her sleep and generally keeping her spirits up, not everyone is so sure. Mykayla’s father divorced from her mother complains that Mykayla is “stoned out of her gourd” and only wants to play video games when he comes to visit, and is conce... read more »
Marijuana Dispensing Company S Stock Is Way Too High
Published: Monday November 19th 4PM
Link: http://disinfo.com/2012/11/marijua...nsing-companys-stock-is-way-too-high/
Description: O'Dea CC Last week we posted a story about legal ways to invest in the medical marijuana boom. One of the suggested companies whose stock is publicly traded, Medbox, says it’s stock price is now ridiculously high after climbing 3000 . Story from MarketWatch: A company that creates medical-marijuana dispensing machines says its stock is getting way too high. Medbox shares surged 3,000 this week — from roughly 4 Monday to 215 Thursday — before falling to 100 after executives ... read more »
How To Invest Legally In Marijuana
Published: Tuesday November 13th 4PM
Link: http://disinfo.com/2012/11/how-to-invest-legally-in-marijuana/
Description: Mjpresson CC You know a tipping point has been reached when the financial press starts writing about ways to profit from legalized marijuana From MarketWatch: Mark Twain is said to have remarked that a gold rush is a good time to be in the pick and shovel business. Investors may be able to apply that same bit of wisdom to the growing number of U.S. states that have legalized pot. Although federal law prohibits the sale or possession of marijuana, Massachusetts last week joined the ranks of state... read more »
Mounting Research Shows Marijuana Fights Cancer
Published: Friday September 7th 3PM
Link: http://disinfo.com/2012/09/mounting-research-shows-marijuana-fights-cancer/
Description: Will the jaws of future generations drop in amazement when they learn that marijuana was banned in our society as a criminal substance Via the Daily Beast: Mounting evidence shows cannabinoids in marijuana slow cancer growth, inhibit formation of new blood cells that feed a tumor, and help manage pain, fatigue, nausea, and other side effects. This offers hope of a non-toxic therapy that could treat aggressive forms of cancer without any of the painful side effects of chemotherapy. Cristina Sanch... read more »