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HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Medbox, Inc. (OTC Markets: MDBX) (www.medboxinc.com), a leader in providing industry specific consulting services and patented systems to the medical and retail industries, announced that yesterday (April 23, 2013), was the single largest trading day for their stock in the company's history with over 66,000 shares traded. The heavy volume comes when marijuana is dominating headlines across the nation, with an increasing number of...
House Bill 1317 proposes recreational marijuana regulations by Colorado lawmakers. On April 18th, this Bill moved one step closer to being established and providing residents and visitors of Colorado with the laws on how personal pot use and sale of pot would be legally sanctioned. (PRWEB) April 23, 2013 Potstores.com has learned that Colorado lawmakers have introduced a bill in April outlining a proposal concerning recreational marijuana regulations intended to move the state closer to...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online During this year’s November elections, citizens of Washington State voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Under the new laws, anyone over the age of 21 can carry up to an ounce of marijuana on their person without fear of being arrested. This new law finally took effect on Thursday, but as several news sources have pointed out, the measure, known as Initiative 502, has only made the matter of marijuana even more...
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Marijuana, Inc. (OTC: MJNA), a leading hemp industry innovator, applauds the pioneering work that could change decriminalization and implementation of Medical Marijuana and Hemp laws in this country for the first in nearly 20 years. The past 10 months have proven to be some of the strongest to date for the legalization, decriminalization and implementation of marijuana laws in the United States, along with a few other countries...
BOSTON, Nov. 2, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's General Election agenda marks a pivotal date in the move forward to make California the fist U.S. state to legalize marijuana, as voters step up to the ballots to decide on Proposition 19 - or, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010. Not only is the Golden State pushing for more accepted use, but Arizona, South Dakota, and Oregon will be voting on the legalization of medicinal marijuana, while other states drive for legislation. In...
The US Supreme Court on Monday announced it would refuse to hear any further challenges to California's Compassionate Use Act, which allows patients to possess marijuana for medicinal purposes based on a doctor's recommendation.Both San Diego and San Bernardino counties had argued that federal law banning the use of marijuana should have precedence over the California state law that permits its use and cultivation. Both counties have refused to issue cards that allow patients to use marijuana...
By Natalie Singer, The Seattle Times Jul. 31--One week after Seattle police returned hundreds of patient files and a computer hard drive taken in a raid from a University District medical marijuana cooperative and local prosecutors declined to press charges, federal drug agents have gotten involved in the case. Drug Enforcement Administration agents on Friday took control from Seattle police of about 12 ounces of medical marijuana and about 2 pounds of less-potent leaves seized from...
SEATTLE _ Martin Martinez says the small, private collective and outreach group he runs from a storefront are legal, a place for medical-marijuana patients to get help growing the medicine they need to manage their pain. One of the earliest advocates for what became a voter-approved state medical-marijuana law 10 years ago, Martinez says he hasn't handed out pot, nor grown any in his cramped office. But Tuesday afternoon, Seattle police, armed with a search warrant, carted away marijuana...
By Cameron French TORONTO (Reuters) - The light scent of marijuana wafted among exhibits at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto on Monday, as activists took advantage of Canada's comparatively pot-friendly policies to make a pitch for the drug as a pain-killer. "This is the first time that an exhibit of this kind has been at the AIDS conference," said Hilary Black, spokeswoman for the Medical Marijuana Information Resource Center which along with the Canadian AIDS...
