Montclair medical marijuana center OK’d to start growing crop immediately
MONTCLAIR — More than two years after New Jersey’s medical marijuana law was passed, state officials have given the go-ahead for the first crop of cannabis to be planted.
MONTCLAIR — More than two years after New Jersey’s medical marijuana law was passed, state officials have given the go-ahead for the first crop of cannabis to be planted.
The former U.S. district attorney who prosecuted B.C. marijuana activist Marc Emery in a cross-border sting is calling for the legalization and taxation of pot in Canada and the U.S.
AMSTERDAM — Dutch coffee shop owners went to court Wednesday in a last ditch bid to block a government plan to stop foreigners from buying marijuana in the Netherlands.
Lawyers representing the coffee shops oppose what would be the most significant change in decades to the country’s famed soft drug tolerance: turning marijuana cafes into “members only” clubs open solely to Dutch residents.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
April 20, the quasi-official holiday for people who enjoy marijuana, is recognized by millions around the world. Those who celebrate 4/20 do so despite — and often due to — decades of out-dated propaganda about a plant that is objectively less harmful than alcohol. They do so despite our federal government’s stubborn insistence that marijuana is one of the more dangerous substances known to man and that it has absolutely no medicinal value. People who choose to celebrate 4/20 do so amidst intense stigma surrounding the event and marijuana in general.