Cannabis Law Group’s Medical Marijuana Legal Blog

It’s part of a Congressional leader’s job to take action in Washington D.C. to protect businesses and industries that are important to one’s home state. However, our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers know it’s only been recently that Congress has taken to protecting the marijuana industry – both medical and recreational, depending on the state laws.…

Oregon was among the first states to recognize the importance of making medicinal marijuana available to ailing patients. However, like California, the state failed to enact protections for the marijuana dispensaries from which the plant could be distributed. Now, our Oregon marijuana lawyers understand that could soon change. House Bill 3460 would effectively legitimize the…

The City of Oakland has not yet given up the fight to keep the country’s largest medical marijuana dispensary, an operation widely-recognized to benefit not only patients but the community and taxpayers as well. Our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers have been closely watching the showdown, which involves the unprecedented move of city leaders standing up…

Perhaps feeling emboldened by the recent California Supreme Court ruling upholding the right of municipalities to uphold a ban on local marijuana dispensaries, the city council in Riverside is now taking aim at another vital service: marijuana delivery. Our Riverside medical marijuana lawyers question the authority of the council to take such action, let alone…

Gov. John Hickenlooper has signed off on Colorado Senate Bill 241, which regulates the growth and trade of industrial hemp in the state. Our Colorado marijuana lawyers know that this measure will give the state a huge leg up in the commerce sector, as even the federal government has thus far failed in passing a…

A popular argument by anti-marijuana advocates is that legalization of the drug for medicinal purposes poses a significant danger to our youth, and particularly to teenagers. The theory goes that legal accessibility for ailing adults will translate to easy illicit accessibility for teens. It’s been the basis upon which both federal and state law enforcement…

A new report by Americans for Safe Access indicates that the federal war on medical marijuana has cost this country almost half a billion dollars. Just during the Obama administration and solely in states that have legalized medicinal marijuana, the federal government has spent some $300 million on enforcement. By comparison, during George W. Bush’s…

It doesn’t matter that you live in a state where medical marijuana is legal. It doesn’t matter that the president of the United States has vowed not to go after you. It doesn’t matter that you are abiding by the rules of the state. If you cultivate, possess or distribute marijuana – regardless of the…

Dr. Daniela Drake of Los Angeles concedes she is an unlikely marijuana advocate. In her recent editorial published in the The Daily Beast, Drake recalls how she had always judged the drug and its users rather harshly. Our Los Angeles marijuana lawyers understand that part of what began to alter her mentality regarding the issue…

After more than a dozen years of waiting, Nevada medical marijuana patients will have a legal way to purchase the drug without being forced to grow it themselves. In this, our Nevada marijuana lawyers understand that the state has become the 14th in the country to approve marijuana dispensaries. It was already among 19 in…