Articles Posted in California Marijuana Collectives

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a truly devastating illness. The disease involves destruction (technically a demyelinating) of the covers that insulate nerve cells. Once these covers a destroyed, the underlying nerve cell is damaged, and this leads to an injury to spinal cord and brain. This degenerative condition leads to a loss of motor control, double…

Each term, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issues a copy of the docket it has selected showing all of the cases that will be heard during that time frame. While every case heard by the Supreme Court deals with serious legal issues, there are some that hold the potential to impact a…

There are a variety of old movies and plays featuring farming towns that haven’t seen rain in very long time and are looking for any way they can to turn things around. This is where the concept of the term “Rainmaker” was derived: People were desperate to believe that someone could literally make it rain,…

The “War On Drugs” has been waged for decades. The U.S. government has spent incredible amounts of taxpayer dollars on this battle and, for the most part, there has been little success and many casualties. In some cases, fighting the war on drugs involved using the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and its vast resources…

Seizure disorders in children are more common than many people realize. They are also one of the scariest conditions parents of any child have to deal with. When a child has a seizure, unlike an adult, there is serious risk of brain damage and other bodily injury. In some situations, seizures can last for hours…

According to a recent news feature from the Los Angeles Times, one Orange County medical marijuana dispensary now employs the first unionized cannabis industry workers. While there are millions of workers who are members of unions, this has not yet been the case for staffers at medical marijuana dispensaries in Orange County. The workers at…

Medical marijuana is legal in California and has been since 1996. But that doesn’t mean people are not going to jail for cultivation and other related crimes. A recent news feature from Marijuana Politics analyzed the story of a man who was sentenced to five years in prison for growing medical marijuana. This man is…

Republican politicians in Utah are worried they may lose some seats this November due to medical marijuana being on the ballot, according to a recent news feature from Fox 13. The concern is that in the various states that have passed medical marijuana by popular vote, many liberals and other young voters who would not…

Gov. Jerry Brown signed an emergency bill that resulted from a legislative drafting error that had dozens of cities across California scrambling to enact bans on the cultivation of medical marijuana. AB21, introduced by Assemblyman Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), is an amendment to the medical marijuana reforms the state passed in September. There was a provision…

Since medical marijuana was legalized in the State of California back in the mid 1990s, there has been a lack of statewide regulation for the most part. The state did not want to get involved, so, for that reason, people often compared the emerging industry to the gold rush of mid 1800s, where there was…