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WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- GrowLife, Inc. (PHOT), a completely legal provider of highly effective indoor growing technologies to the blossoming marijuana industry, today applauded Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Michael Gordon's decision to uphold Arizona's voter-approved law that decriminalizes the possession and sale of marijuana for medical uses. "This court will not rule that Arizona, having sided with the ever-growing minority of states and having...
Kentucky Initiative Seeks to Pass Laws on the State and Federal Level to Allow Widespread Growth of Industrial Hemp WASHINGTON, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Nov. 14 at 10:00 a.m. ET, representatives of the nation's leading industrial hemp advocacy group, Vote Hemp, and top-selling natural soap brand Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps will meet with Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's staff and members of the revived Kentucky Industrial Hemp Commission, led by Kentucky Agriculture...
SEATTLE, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Association of Medical Marijuana Producers and Processors (AMMP) today announced that it has been restructured as the Evergreen State Cannabis Trade Alliance. The reorganization enables the Alliance to enhance AMMP's existing set of safety standards - designed to ensure that qualifying medical patients have access to the safest cannabis in the United States - for a wider consumer base under Washington State Initiative 502. Marijuana...
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medicine Dispensing Systems, a subsidiary of Medbox, Inc. (Pinksheets: MDBX) (www.medboxinc.com) in partnership with Kind Clinics, LLC is preparing to assist companies and individuals open legal and fully compliant medical marijuana clinics in the state of Massachusetts. The company will be demonstrating its patented technology to the media next week at its new office location at 81 Speen St. Natick, Ma. With Massachusetts' passage...
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Marijuana Inc. (OTC: MJNA), a leading hemp industry innovator, commends the millions of Washington voters who helped pass Initiative 502 in the November 6 elections by a vote of 55 percent. The vote marks a historic landmark for the medical marijuana industry, as Washington is now the second state in the U.S. to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults over 21. The Seattle Times reports that this legalization could help bring in...
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Medical Marijuana Inc. (OTC: MJNA), a leading hemp industry innovator, commends the millions of Colorado voters who helped pass Amendment 64 by about 66 percent in the November 6 elections. The positive vote, which crossed partisan lines, marked history by making Colorado the first state in the U.S. to remove prohibition and legalize marijuana for recreational use for adults over 21. The decision will allow large-scale commercial production and...
WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reform initiatives in thirteen states, as a part of the upcoming presidential elections November 6, 2012, face an important decision about the future of cannabis policy in the U.S. Voters in Arkansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and Ohio will vote on whether or not to authorize medical marijuana use. Meanwhile, voters in Colorado, Washington and Oregon are set to vote on taxation and regulation...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Nov. 2, 2012 The operator of a medical marijuana dispensary in the Figueroa district Los Angeles, Alex Anatoli who operates a properly licensed facility was allegedly accosted with neither court order or warrant in hand by three federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents who entered his premises and threatened to close the cooperative's business under the guise of enforcing The Controlled Substance Act of 1970. The DEA also threatened to cut...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online If voters in the states of Colorado, Oregon, and Washington vote to legalize marijuana on November 6, it could set the stage for a potential showdown with the federal government, who according to one official will not change its stance on the drug's status regardless of how those elections turn out. According to Reuters reporter Alex Dobuzinskis, Deputy Attorney General James Cole told "60 Minutes" that the Justice Department's...
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...
