{"id":2546,"date":"2011-06-01T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=5327"},"modified":"2011-06-01T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T20:39:07","slug":"medical-marijuana-industry-news-aprilmay-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/medical-marijuana-industry-news-aprilmay-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Marijuana Industry News | April\/May, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/medical-marijuana-industry-news-aprilmay-2011\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/MarijuanaNet-Logo-Ad-Rotator_260x120-100x1002.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"MarijuanaNet-Logo-Ad-Rotator_260x120-100x100\" title=\"MarijuanaNet-Logo-Ad-Rotator_260x120-100x100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>News From April\/May <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder suggested that the Justice Department will work with governors to reach a satisfactory resolution to the establishment of dispensaries that sell marijuana to patients in state-sponsored medical-marijuana programs.\u00a0 Dispensaries owners have long expressed concern that they will be raided or shut down by officials from the federal government even when they are in full compliance with state law.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>?Advocates for medical marijuana filed a suit in a U.S. Circuit Court today to force the Obama administration to answer a petition that seeks to have the federal government recognize cannabis as a drug with acceptable medical uses.\u00a0 The suit asks the court to order the administration to answer the original request within 60 days. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The suit is cosponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norml.org\">NORML.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the coalition of pro-pot organizations is successful, marijuana would be taken out of the federal Schedule I category &#8212; the group of outlaw drugs with no legitimate uses, to which cocaine doesn&#8217;t even belong &#8212; and, presumably, made available as a medicine from coast-to-cost.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 8 of 10 states that legalized medical marijuana saw a DECREASE in teen usage of marijuana.<\/li>\n<li> The US Government supplies marijuana to four seriously ill patients as part of the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program.\u00a0 The program was closed to new patients in 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Between 1997 and 2005 marijuana was NOT reported as a cause of death in the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalmarijuana.procon.org\/view.resource.php?resourceID=004289\">Procon.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Jack Markell has signed legislation making Delaware the 16th state to allow the use of medical marijuana.\u00a0 The legalization of marijuana will allow it to be used for the treatment of cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV\/AIDS, post traumatic stress disorder and other devastating diseases. \u00a0\u00a0Three state-regulated non-profit dispensaries will be established in each county.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conservative Idaho might not seem like the most fertile ground for a medical marijuana movement, but supporters have launched an initiative drive that could change the terms of the debate. The reason: 74 percent of Idahoans say they support allowing \u201cterminally and seriously ill patients to use and purchase marijuana for medical purposes.\u201d That was in this year\u2019s Boise State University public policy survey, a result so overwhelmingly favorable that researchers initially thought it had to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>How can a drug that federal drug law says is criminal be considered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/08\/us\/08marijuana.html\">medicine under state law<\/a>?\u00a0\u00a0 The article highlights the growing concern among operators of legal dispensaries.\u00a0 At any minute they can be raided and closed by federal agents.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medical marijuana could become legal in Illinois.\u00a0 Some lawmakers are looking to make cannabis available for people seeking relief from symptoms of maladies that include multiple scoliosis, cancer and HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/MarijuanaNet-Logo-Ad-Rotator_260x120-100x1002.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"MarijuanaNet-Logo-Ad-Rotator_260x120-100x100\" title=\"MarijuanaNet-Logo-Ad-Rotator_260x120-100x100\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>News From April\/May <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder suggested that the Justice Department will work with governors to reach a satisfactory resolution to the establishment of dispensaries that sell marijuana to patients in state-sponsored medical-marijuana programs.\u00a0 Dispensaries owners have long expressed concern that they will be raided or shut down by officials from the federal government even when they are in full compliance with state law.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>?Advocates for medical marijuana filed a suit in a U.S. Circuit Court today to force the Obama administration to answer a petition that seeks to have the federal government recognize cannabis as a drug with acceptable medical uses.\u00a0 The suit asks the court to order the administration to answer the original request within 60 days. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The suit is cosponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norml.org\">NORML.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the coalition of pro-pot organizations is successful, marijuana would be taken out of the federal Schedule I category &#8212; the group of outlaw drugs with no legitimate uses, to which cocaine doesn&#8217;t even belong &#8212; and, presumably, made available as a medicine from coast-to-cost.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> 8 of 10 states that legalized medical marijuana saw a DECREASE in teen usage of marijuana.<\/li>\n<li> The US Government supplies marijuana to four seriously ill patients as part of the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program.\u00a0 The program was closed to new patients in 1991.<\/li>\n<li>Between 1997 and 2005 marijuana was NOT reported as a cause of death in the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalmarijuana.procon.org\/view.resource.php?resourceID=004289\">Procon.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Jack Markell has signed legislation making Delaware the 16th state to allow the use of medical marijuana.\u00a0 The legalization of marijuana will allow it to be used for the treatment of cancer, multiple sclerosis, HIV\/AIDS, post traumatic stress disorder and other devastating diseases. \u00a0\u00a0Three state-regulated non-profit dispensaries will be established in each county.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conservative Idaho might not seem like the most fertile ground for a medical marijuana movement, but supporters have launched an initiative drive that could change the terms of the debate. The reason: 74 percent of Idahoans say they support allowing \u201cterminally and seriously ill patients to use and purchase marijuana for medical purposes.\u201d That was in this year\u2019s Boise State University public policy survey, a result so overwhelmingly favorable that researchers initially thought it had to be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>How can a drug that federal drug law says is criminal be considered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/08\/us\/08marijuana.html\">medicine under state law<\/a>?\u00a0\u00a0 The article highlights the growing concern among operators of legal dispensaries.\u00a0 At any minute they can be raided and closed by federal agents.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Medical marijuana could become legal in Illinois.\u00a0 Some lawmakers are looking to make cannabis available for people seeking relief from symptoms of maladies that include multiple scoliosis, cancer and HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2340,460,371,9,51,299,2358,1,3],"tags":[4907,3034,2949,2631,2877,4925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}