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Description: The most egregious outcome of marijuana prohibition is that many sick people cannot legally access the medicine that works best for them. For many seriously ill people, medical marijuana is the only medicine that relieves their pain and suffering, or treats symptoms of their medical condition, without debilitating side effects. Marijuana has been shown to alleviate symptoms of a huge variety of serious medical conditions including cancer, AIDS, and glaucoma, and is often an effective alternative to synthetic painkillers. Although an overwhelming majority of Americans support medical marijuana, the federal government continues to impede state medical marijuana laws. Marijuana prohibition has also thwarted research within the United States to uncover the best and most effective uses for marijuana as a medicine, making efforts to reform medical marijuana laws particularly difficult. The Drug Policy Alliance is committed to increasing the number of states with medical marijuana laws, supporting and improving existing state medical marijuana programs, protecting medical marijuana patients, and ending the federal ban on medical marijuana. Learn more about our priorities for medical marijuana.
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Los Angeles Citizens Vote To Regulate Medical Marijuana
Published: Wednesday May 22nd 10AM
Link: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/201...izens-vote-regulate-medical-marijuana
Description: >State oversight would help clarify new regulations</p>LOS ANGELES, CA – Yesterday, the citizens of Los Angeles voted to regulate medical marijuana by voting to pass Proposition D, one of three medical marijuana regulation measures on the ballot. The Proposition received 62.57 of the vote. Proposition D caps the number of collectives at those who opened prior to 2007, about 130, raises the gross receipts tax from 50 to 60 per 1000 of gross receipts, and establishes the distances t... read more »
Poll: 82 Of New York Voters Including 81 Of Republicans And Democrats Support Medical Marijuana
Published: Monday May 20th 2PM
Link: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/201...ocrats- E2 80 93-support-medical-mari
Description: >Medical Marijuana Patients and Advocates Call for Immediate Passage of New York's Bill</p>A poll released by the Siena Research Institute released today found that 82 of New York voters support allowing seriously and terminally ill people to legally use marijuana for medical purposes if recommended by a doctor.read more read more »
California Supreme Court Upholds Local Medical Marijuana Bans
Published: Tuesday May 7th 3PM
Link: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/201...-upholds-local-medical-marijuana-bans
Description: >Statement from Drug Policy Alliance: "The Only Way to Protect Patients is for California to Adopt State Wide Medical Marijuana Regulation</p>Today, the California Supreme Court held that localities may entirely ban medical marijuana dispensaries from operating within their jurisdictions in a closely watched case, City of Riverside vs. Inland Empire Patients Health and Wellness Center. The result of the Court’s ruling is that tens of thousands of legitimate medica... read more »
Access To Medical Marijuana For Patients With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Ptsd In New Mexico Is Protected
Published: Wednesday May 1st 12PM
Link: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/201...tress-disorder-ptsd-new-mexico-protec
Description: >In a Surprise Move, the New Mexico Department of Health announced that PTSD will remain a qualifying condition</p>Drug Policy Alliance Will Continue to Call on the Martinez Administration to Support Access to Medical Marijuana</p> SANTA FE, NM – After months of deliberation, yesterday, the New Mexico Department of Health upheld a recommendation by the Medical Cannabis Program’s Medical Advisory Board and announced that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder PTSD will remain a... read more »
Assembly Codes Committee Passes Bill To Allow Medicinal Use Of Marijuana In New York State
Published: Tuesday April 30th 4PM
Link: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/201...edicinal-use-marijuana-new-york-state
Description: >Advocates Urge New York Assembly and Senate to Pass Bill</p>Earlier today, the New York State Assembly Codes Committee passed A.6357/Gottfried by a vote of 16 to 6. The bill would alleviate the suffering of thousands of seriously ill New Yorkers by allowing the use of marijuana to treat debilitating, life-threatening illnesses under a doctor’s supervision.read more read more »
Maryland Enacts Law Allowing Academic Studies Of Medical Marijuana
Published: Monday April 8th 3PM
Link: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/201...ng-academic-studies-medical-marijuana
Description: >New Law Unlikely to Provide Patients Access to Medicine Absent Changes in Federal Policy<br /<br /> Statement from Drug Policy Alliance's Amanda Reiman</p>Today, Maryland enacted a law allowing approved academic research institutions in that state to establish investigational, research-oriented medical marijuana studies. Unlike 18 other states that have adopted medical marijuana laws that allow patients to obtain medical marijuana by growing it themselves or purchasi... read more »
Medical Marijuana Bill Introduced In New York State Senate & Assembly
Published: Wednesday March 27th 10AM
Link: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/201...oduced-new-york-state-senate-assembly
Description: >Legislation Would End the Needless Suffering of Thousands of Seriously Ill New Yorkers</p>Statement from Drug Policy Alliance’s Julie Netherland</p>Today, New York State Assemblyman Richard Gottfried and Senator Diane Savino introduced a bill that would create one of the nation’s most tightly regulated medical marijuana programs.read more read more »
Ethan Nadelmann: The White House Experiments With Weed
Published: Thursday March 21st 1PM
Link: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/ethan-nadelmann-white-house-experiments-weed
Description: Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, explains that recent marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington isn't simple. The Federal response or lack thereof will determine how the policy is actualized. read more »
Legislation To Protect Medical Marijuana States Introduced
Published: Thursday February 14th 6PM
Link: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/201...t-medical-marijuana-states-introduced
Description: > Bill Would Remove Marijuana from Schedule I and Halt Federal Government Interference With State Medical Marijuana Regulation</p> WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, Rep. Earl Blumenauer D-OR introduced legislation that would recognize the medicinal use of marijuana and remove marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. The issue of regulating medical marijuana would be returned to the states, and individuals complying with state medical marijuana laws would be exempt fro... read more »
D.c. Circuit Court Of Appeals Rules That Dea Does Not Have To Reconsider Marijuana's Schedule I Status
Published: Tuesday January 22nd 5PM
Link: http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/201...econsider-marijuanas-schedule-i-statu
Description: > DPA Statement: Feds Are Creating a Catch-22 For Research and Policy</p> On Tuesday, January 22, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in a case challenging the Drug Enforcement Administration’s designation of marijuana as a Schedule I substance. The court was to decide whether the DEA followed its own rules when making the decision not to review scientific evidence that supports removing marijuana from Schedule I. Today, the court ruled... read more »