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Medical Marijuana Update

Lots of action in California this past week, including more raids and more threat letters, plus action in various state legislatures.
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Overdose Prevention Deal in New Jersey

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who vetoed a Good Samaritan overdose bill last fall, has reached an agreement with legislators, folding Good Samaritan language into a naloxone overdose prevention bill. That's a twofer for New Jersey!
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Indiana Welfare Drug Testing Bill Fails

A bid to impose drug testing on welfare recipients in Indiana has died after legislators could not agree on a means of ensuring payments to the children of recipients who tested positive.
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Medical Marijuana Update

The first dispensary in Phoenix has opened, dispensaries in Washington, DC, are ready to go, and there has been more federal enforcement activity in California.
Scott Murphy Iraq deployment photo
Scott Murphy Iraq deployment photo

The Push is On for PTSD and Medical Marijuana [FEATURE]

Military veterans and civilians, too, are suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Many are finding relief with marijuana, but even in some medical marijuana states, its use is not approved.
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Medical Marijuana Update

More DEA raids in Los Angeles, federal prison bureaucrats ignore a Michigan medical marijuana prisoner's medical needs, and there is lots of action in state legislatures.