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The synthetic marijuana known as "Spice" maybe seeing it's last days Arizona. State lawmakers have started to take action against the synthetic drug considering it's dangerous record.

Two bills were introduced on Monday by a Senate committee targeting synthetic marijuana. The bills work in effort to make it harder for people to obtain and use Spice.

The Associated Press reports, One bill would prohibit businesses with liquor licenses from selling synthetic marijuana. This would remove the known dangerous substance from local liquor and convince stores limiting the ease of purchasing it. However this will have little effect on tobacco and smoke shops.

The other bill will allow the state to expand the definition of dangerous drugs to include synthetic marijuana. The bill would also increase the minimum fine of selling or manufacturing dangerous drugs from $1,000 to $25,000. State officials say the current law has very little impact on the distribution of Spice, because the small fine is worth the business, and minor chemical changes can be made to stay ahead of the law. Continue Reading...

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A city wide ban is responsible for shutting down one of Colorado's first cannabis coffee shops for patients to use their medical marijuana.

The Front Tea and Arts was a place where adults were able to gather in nice atmosphere to vaporize and use cannabis. The business would sell and serve drinks and snacks while providing a relaxing place to patients and later cannabis users to go and medicate in a controlled environment.

The establishment is now forced to shut down after the Lafayette City Council voted to pass an eight-month moratorium on all marijuana-related businesses. Now many residents and patients are forced to feel like outcasts with one less place to go to medicate and celebrate their culture, but plenty of bars serving alcohol are still in business. Continue Reading...





A state lawmaker seeks to add new regulations on medical marijuana in Arizona with new bills that could make dispensing harder, and lead to the destruction of personal and local business property.

Sen. Kimberly Yee, R-Phoenix, is proposing two bills to tighten the grips around Arizona's medical marijuana program. She wants local dispensaries to add warning labels on edible cannabis products such as brownies and lollipops similar to the U.S. surgeon general’s warning labels on cigarettes. This is her solution in an effort to keep these products out of the hands of children, as if these warning labels keep cigarettes and alcohol out of the hands of our kids now.

Most can agree that a label stating to "Keep out of reach of children" is a good idea, however suggesting a "surgeon general’s" type warning could just continue the myth that marijuana is as dangerous as cigarettes, which is not the case in the slightest, especially on edible marijuana products. What exactly is there to warn about concerning health, "May suppress pain and slow the growth of cancer"?

Some feel that more suitable labeling would be more like that of a prescription medication, adding a more official medical appeal to the drug for it's intended purpose.

The other bill would give police the right to dispose of medical marijuana seized during criminal investigations rather then returning the property to it's owner. Currently police hold plants and prescription marijuana until a court requires them to return it to the patient or business that owns the legal drug. But under the new bill, police will be able to destroy the personal property of these individuals at their own discretion if passed.

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Police arrest an owner of two compassion clubs at his home and seized over 120 medical marijuana plants after serving several warrants. Tempe police say the the businesses were operating illegally.

39-year-old James Earl Chaney was arrested at his residence after police bust two valley compassion clubs and a grow house seizing over 120 marijuana plants intended for card holding patients. Chaney is the owner and operator of Top Shelf Hydro College where a series of several warrants were served for illegal drug sale among other drug related charges.

According to The Associated Press, undercover detectives were able to purchase large amounts of marijuana at one of the Tempe locations, which is in violation of state law.

"They were saying it was for donations, but when our undercovers would go in, there was a price they had to pay, for quantity and for quality. There was a different price for each one," says Tempe Police Sgt. Mike Pooley.

There has been no word yet on whether or not the undercover police presented medical marijuana cards, which would valuable to know when deciding as society the legality of the situation.

But most mainstream media sources and police have left out this detail. Local ABC 15 even reported on continued violence at the business siting a recent robbery at the location, which isn't much different then the thousands of gas station, bank and liquor store robberies that happen nationwide every year.

The only "so called" violence reported by local businesses about the operation were about the presents of the police during the bust.

"One of my patients said she was afraid to get out of her car," said Dr. Alejandro Mioni of Arizona Chiropractic Group, a near by business "There was a man wearing a gun and a bullet-proof vest, and she was just afraid of him." Continue Reading...



Marijuana maybe legal in Colorado for all adults, but good luck finding a place to purchase your cannabis in some counties. Douglas County just became the first county to out right ban commercial pot operations, and others are considering to follow.

According to the Denver Post, anti-marijuana communities are taking action against commercial marijuana shops in their county. Douglas County is the first to quickly decide against stores opening their doors in the community. The ban on recreational marijuana businesses will take effect Thursday regardless of the new law and the money generated by cannabis businesses.

"That's a revenue source that we're not interested in having here," said Douglas County spokeswoman Wendy Holmes.

Holmes also added that a board did consider the financial benefits of pot shops, but continued against them anyway. Douglas County residents voted against marijuana measures four times in the past 12 years, including Amendment 64 which makes it legal for all adults over 21 in the state to possess up to an ounce of marijuana.

The measure lost in the county 54 percent to 46 percent Continue Reading...

 

It's been a long two years since Arizona voters approved medical marijuana for their residents in need. Now the doors are finally opened to the states first medical cannabis dispensary.

Arizona Organix opened their doors Thursday morning as the first operational medical marijuana dispensary in Arizona. They were met by several dozen patients lining up to obtain their medication. The line wrapped around the building at the Glendale location were the first of 96 applicants chosen through a lottery from 126 geographic areas across the state.

The establishment conducts business with a professional approach and atmosphere. It is set up like a doctor's office with a waiting room, a front desk and room to meet with a medical marijuana professional and a variety of medication. Consultants privately discuss the ailments with the patient to help determine which strains will treat their conditions best.

"I've been waiting a long time for this," said Charles Everett, a chronic pain suffer and medically approved marijuana patient, "It's a great day for Democracy."

Dispensaries have been blocked from opening up in Arizona for over two years due to the issue being tied up in courts, the issue was regarding the federal stance on marijuana. State and Maricopa County prosecutors attempted to wrongfully argue that federal laws trumps state laws, however last week a judge founded on the side of the people and cleared the path for Arizona Organix and other dispensaries across the state to open. Continue Reading...









A 7-year-old Portland girl battling leukemia gets some extra help with her fight using a controversial method of treatment, medical marijuana.

7-year-old Mykayla Comstock was diagnosed with leukemia last year, and as can be expected, she's had a hard year. Mykayla's doctors have been treating her condition with chemotherapy which is a known effective treatment for her illness. However the treatment has horrible side effects such as pain, loss of hunger and nausea to name a few. So Mykayla's mother made a very hard decision to try something else to combat the chemo treatments.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Erin Purchase (Mykayla's mother) signed the child up for Oregon's medical marijuana program in hopes to ease the side effects of the chemotherapy, and Mykayla is now one of Portland's youngest patients. Purchase treats the suffering girl with a gram of cannabis oil daily, and she reports the drug is effective on Mykayla's symptoms.

Purchase and her boyfriend (caretaker) who grows the marijuana for the patients, both administer the cannabis oil to the little girl everyday. Mykayla says the cannabis helps her eat regularly and sleep at night.

"It helps me sleep," Mykayla said. "The chemotherapy makes you feel like you want to stay up all night long."

Purchase herself has had effective experiences with medical marijuana in the past, not only is she a patient, but she believes medical cannabis saved her stepfather's life who suffered from skin cancer. But Mykayla's birth father is not as optimistic as her mother about the treatment.

The father, Jesse Comstock from North Dakota, has expressed concern about the effects the drug may have on Mykayla's brain development. Comstock was disturbed after an August visit he had with his daughter. He said she didn't seem like herself at all and seemed to have no energy.

"She was stoned out of her mind," said Comstock. "All she wanted to do was lay on the bed and play video games."  Continue Reading...

County and state prosecutors in Washington are thumping through their cases and are dropping misdemeanor marijuana possession cases after voters have approved legal recreational use of cannabis.

This past election has scored some big wins for pro marijuana advocates and medical cannabis patients. Voters in both Washington and Colorado have passed a bill which would allow adults over the age of 21 to possess and use marijuana for not only medical purposes but for recreational use as well. But this isn't just good news for those looking to toke up.

Current defendants in Clark County who were busted under the newly legal limits of marijuana possession will be getting a much needed break for their offenses. Prosecutor Tony Golik reports that his office will be dropping cases of defendants who are at least 21 years of age and who were in possession of an ounce or less.

These were the parameters outlined under Initiative 502 which was passed by voters on this Novembers election. The new law which legalizes under an ounce of cannabis for all uses will go into effect December 6 Continue Reading...

 

Most of us growing up since the 80's remember the harmful drug curriculum taught to us by the local DARE officer in school, and the lengthy segment spent on warning us about the dangers of marijuana. But now it appears that DARE is about to drop the nonsense anti-propaganda surrounding cannabis to spend more time on real hardcore drugs.

Tokeoftown.com reported that of students from the Sunset View Elementary DARE program in Kennewick, Washington, will be among the last to be taught about the dangers of marijuana. The DARE curriculum on cannabis has been proved to cause more harm then good, which shadows the failures of the war on drugs.

Much of the information provided to children about marijuana through the program is found to be inaccurate, one-sided and students are missing the information regarding its medical uses, the big picture. Students are becoming wiser with every generation and some fear that the dishonesty surrounding the marijuana content will lead children into believing there is dishonesty being taught about very real harmful drugs such as heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. Continue Reading...





A new report released by the FBI shows someone is arrested for marijuana every 42 seconds in the United States. A large percentage of the arrests are for possession alone.

It's just a week away from voters in Colorado, Washington and Oregon making a decision on legalizing and regulating marijuana for all purposes. With elections coming so soon, it's interesting that the FBI released a report that doesn't seem to favor their four decade long "War on Drugs".

The report shows that every 42 seconds a civilian is arrested for marijuana, and approximately 87% of those arrests are only for possession. Just like the failed prohibition of alcohol, one can clearly argue that the war on drugs is doing more harm then good, Americans want marijuana. The report also shows that there were more then 750,000 marijuana arrests in 2011, which increases crime and creates harder criminals.

According to Salem-News.com, the organization known as Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), which is a group of current and former police officers, judges and other law enforcement officials, are pointing at these findings as proof that this ridiculous war can never be won. Continue Reading...

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