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Medical Marijuana

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    Pot Policies: Weed's Legal Use Might Widen in Arizona

    New York still hasn't decided whether it's going to OK medical marijuana, but more developments across the U.S. suggest that it's spreading -- though with some legal blowback from the U.S. courts and feds.

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Ban Doesn't Hurt Disabled, Court Says

    More weed news from the West Coast: A federal court in California just ruled 2-1 that cities can ban medical marijuana dispensaries -- and that doing so doesn't violate the Americans With Disabilities Act. As detailed by the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco's Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Pot Politics: Here's How Medical Marijuana Can Influence Elections

    As the medical marijuana debate continues in New York, there's a bit of news from the West Coast that might interest vote-seeking Empire State pols: Looks like prescription pot can make or break a candidate.

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Dispensaries In Rhode Island Could Be Open By Fall. New York Still Weighing The "Risks"

    The Rhode Island House of Representatives passed a revised bill yesterday that paves the way for the opening of three medical marijuana dispensaries that likely will be open by fall. Governor Andrew Cuomo's "progressive" New York, however, is still assessing the "risks" of legalizing prescription po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Bill Headed For Another Assembly Vote (Calm Down, Stoners -- You're Not Getting Prescription Pot)

    A bill that would legalize medical marijuana in New York has cleared the Health Committee and is headed to the Codes Committee where it will likely be approved and sent to the full Assembly for a vote.Don't get too excited, though, stoners -- even if the bill does pass in the Assembly (which it like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Comes to Connecticut

    For our Northeastern neighbor, it's a shame 4/20 was two weeks ago. This morning, after 10 hours of debate, the Connecticut Senate voted 21 to 13 on a bill that will legalize marijuana for medical usage. After already being cleared in the House, the "green" legislation heads to the desk of Gove ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Medical Marijuana Growing In New Jersey. Cuomo's "Progressive" New York: Not So Much

    Things just got a little greener in the Garden State.The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services issued a permit to Montclair-based Greenleaf Compassion Center yesterday to begin growing medical marijuana. It's the first "compassion club" in New Jersey to receive a permit since the state ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Medical Marijuana: Is Andrew Cuomo A Weed-Bully Or Is "Cuomo 2016" On His Mind?

    As we reported yesterday, a bill will soon be introduced into the state Legislature that would legalize medical marijuana in New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo, however, says he won't sign the bill -- despite overwhelming public support for prescription pot. It seems as though maybe -- just maybe -- th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Andrew Cuomo's Saying Nope To Medical Dope Actually Is "Encouraging" To Prescription Pot Advocates

    An upcoming bill in the New York Legislature that would legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes is getting no love from New York's gov -- Andrew Cuomo said yesterday that he still thinks the cons outweigh the pros when it comes to medical marijuana and that he wouldn't support the bill...this year ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    Crime Higher in Neighborhoods Without Marijuana Dispensaries, RAND Corporation Finds

    Rickard Blommengren​Our feature in this week's Voice finds that under Mayor Bloomberg, over 60,000 (mostly black and Latino male) New Yorkers will be arrested this year for small levels of marijuana possession. In a study co-authored by Harry Levine and Loren Sigel, the Drug Policy Alliance pu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Andrew Cuomo Reconsiders Medical Marijuana

    ​After New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gave the state's medical marijuana program the green light on Tuesday, our own Governor Cuomo is reconsidering whether or not to implement a similar program in New York. A group of New York politicians recently co-sponsored a medical marijuana bill, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    New Jersey's Medical Marijuana Program Could Begin by the End of 2011

    ​After complications, New Jersey will move forward with its medical marijuana program, Governor Chris Christie said on Tuesday. The bill, signed into law by former Governor Jon S. Corzine, a Democrat, on his last day in office back in January of 2010, was supposed to make way for operation wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2011

    Marijuana Has No Accepted Medical Use, DEA Decrees

    ​The feds have spoken: marijuana has no legitimate medical use and will continue to be classified as a hard drug. This decision comes nine years after medical pot advocates asked the federal government to reclassify marijuana to reflect growing evidence that it has beneficial medical properties. D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2011

    'East Coast Rapist' Caught in Connecticut; MTA Working on 15 Subway Lines This Weekend; Libyan Rebels Fight For Control of Key City

    the East Coast Rapist. via​A man known by police as the "East Coast Rapist" has been apprehended in Connecticut. Aaron Thomas, 39, has allegedly sexually assaulted 17 women in four states (Maryland, Virginia, Rhode Island, and Connecticut). Earlier this week, law enforcement created the aptly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Medical Marijuana News: Substituting Barbecue Sauce for Bong

    cleveland.comContemplating the barbecue buffet at the mother ship, Hot Sauce Williams​Despite the fact that medical marijuana has yet to hit the Empire State, Fork in the Road has been keeping careful track of the myriad permutations that the drug has taken over the last few months.

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Free Weed for Food Donations in California; New York State Fires Kosher Food Inspectors

    ​The Granny Purps, a medical marijuana dispensary in California, gave patients free joints for every four cans of food they donated, with a maximum of three a day. Some 11,000 pounds of food were collected. [NPR] A look at the PepsiCo Science Park in New Haven reveals an earnest effort to fin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2010

    New Jersey Inching Toward Medical Marijuana, But It Won't Be the "Good Stuff"

    NJ Stoners​Ailing New Jersey residents may be smoking medical marijuana by next summer thanks to a compromise reached between Governor Chris Christie and weed advocates, who thought they had won when previous Governor Jon Corzine signed a law legalizing the treatment on his way out of office. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2010

    Suck This Down: Colorado Company Offers Marijuana-Laced Sodas

    ​A psychedelic rainbow of ways to get high We recently reported that holders of medical marijuana permits in California were not confined to consuming their medicine as buds, hashish, or brownies, but could legally acquire the drug in the form of freshly baked raspberry crisps and lollipops, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Suck on This: Medical Marijuana Lollipops

    ​"KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN" warns the label When my friend Melanie came back from the Bay Area last week, she was very enthusiastic about California's medical marijuana program. I told her it sounded good to me, but I was really in excellent health and couldn't imagine how I'd get a prescripti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Medical Marijuana: What Next?

    via Wikipedia​If medical marijuana becomes legalized in New York, then what next? Free cocaine for any anxious mess who manages to manipulate a prescription for it?

  • Voice Choices

    April 13, 2010

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  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Dope Lugs 49 Bags of Marijuana to Staten Island Hospital

    Why is she smiling? Why do you think? This poster hangs in the Ganja Gallery bar, a legal dope dispensary in Boulder, Colorado."Medical" and "marijuana" don't yet go together in New York, as a 58-year-old Staten Island man recently discovered. He showed up at the hospital last Friday for treatment ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    NY Senate Warming to Weed to Fill Budget Gap?

    ​The New York State Senate has rejected a variety of 'sin' taxes that Governor Paterson has proposed to raise revenue. The Senate's budget proposal has neglected to tax sodas, or additionally tax cigarettes to help fill the $9 billion budget deficit. They've also declined to earn additional re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Jersey Farmers See Cash Crop in Newly-Legalized Medical Marijuana

    ​Last month, in the waning days of the Corzine Administration, New Jersey passed a "Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act," by which the state will "protect from arrest... those patients who use marijuana to alleviate suffering from debilitating medical conditions, as well as their physician ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Poll: New Yorkers Favor Legalizing Medical Marijuana

    The new Quinnipiac poll doesn't have too many surprises -- voters still think the state is being run into the ground, don't want new taxes, etc. -- but it does contain this novel question: Do voters think legalizing medical marijuana -- which is before the state senate now, though it keeps getting n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    BPA Found in Cans; Sushi Chain Sells to Potheads

    ​Kraft says it's still interested in purchasing British confectioner Cadbury, but stresses that it would "maintain a disciplined approach." The conglomerate has been beating sales estimates, but acquiring Cadbury would help it grow even more. [NY Times] Bad news for those who replaced plastic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Obama DOJ Goes Easy on Medical Marijuana

    The Department of Justice will not go after medical marijuana users and suppliers who are following state laws which allow them to operate, according to new DOJ guidelines examined by the Washington Post. This would seem to reverse the policy of the previous Administration, which continued to send D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2008

    Reefer Madness Strikes Mid-Level Celebrities!

    The Department of Justice will not go after medical marijuana users and suppliers who are following state laws which allow them to operate, according to new DOJ guidelines examined by the Washington Post. This would seem to reverse the policy of the previous Administration, which continued to send D ... More >>

  • News

    May 31, 2005

    Light 'Em Up

    Advocates for medical pot look beyond a Supreme Court bummer

  • News

    November 30, 2004

    Medical Marijuana Keeps on Rolling

    Pot for patients may run into trouble with the Supreme Court, but the issue is gaining here at home

  • News

    January 8, 2002

    Prescription: Euphoria

    New Research Brings Ecstasy Back to the Couch

  • News

    June 26, 2001

    Kind Bud

    Uncle Sam's Medical Pot Project Is Light on Research, Heavy on Compassion

  • News

    May 15, 2001

    Up In Smoke

    Supreme Court Snuffs Medical Marijuana Clubs, But Users Vow To Keep on Toking

  • News

    February 27, 2001

    Sacrificial Lamb

    Orthodox Rabbi Yitzchak Fried Could Do Hard Time for Medical Marijuana

  • News

    January 30, 2001

    The Year In Pot

    Twelve Months in the Life of Marijuana Prohibition

  • News

    December 5, 2000

    The Herbalist

    Arrested for Giving Marijuana to the Sick, Kenneth Toglia Still Sows Seeds of Hope

  • NYC Life

    March 30, 1999

    Splendor in the Grass

    Medical Marijuana

  • News

    March 23, 1999

    Pot Shots

    Medical Marijuana

  • News

    December 15, 1998

    Tobacco Row

    Medical Marijuana

  • News

    December 8, 1998

    Hyde & Seek

    Wider probe could burn judiciary chair

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