Crackdown: Med Marijuana Clinics
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Oversight has been lax on medical marijuana clinics in California and who can grow the dope for medical purposes. But cities are halting new clinics and the DEA is targeting those with iffy practices. By the Associated Press.
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The American Medical Association said on Monday it will ask state and federal authorities to investigate retail health clinics such as those offered in CVS/Caremark stores, Wal-Mart Stores and Walgreen Co. for possible conflicts of interest.
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Drug stores will have to start locking up common cold medicines that contain chemicals used to make methamphetamine and limiting sales of those medicines to two at a time under a bill Gov.
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To fight the meth epidemic, states go after legal sniffle remedies at the corner drugstore
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A report on law enforcement violations of the rights of medical marijuana patients in California was released Monday, August 16. The three-month study found local and state law enforcement is routinely seizing the marijuana to which California patients ...
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By Josh Jarman, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  May 31--COMMERCIAL POINT, Ohio -- A highly sophisticated 2-acre pot farm found on state land yesterday is a new kind of drug operation for Ohio. And it might not be the only one.
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In a bold venture that puts Spain at the forefront of the medical use of cannabis in Europe, 60 pharmacies and four hospitals in Catalonia are to prescribe marijuana for therapeutic use where other treatments ...
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WASHINGTON - A lawyer for two women who use marijuana as a painkiller told the US Supreme Court yesterday that the federal government has no constitutional authority to outlaw the cultivation of the drug within a state for medical use.
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The US Supreme Court is reviewing whether the federal government can prosecute sick people who use marijuana for medicine in states where it is legal.
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The grass may be greener on the inside for inmates at Japan&#39;s Abashiri Prison, where marijuana shoots have been sprouting in the exercise yard.
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The number of cannabis farms being uncovered by police in England and Wales has trebled in the last two years, according to a report by drugs information charity DrugScope published Tuesday.
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California plans to scuttle a confidential rehab program that allows physicians to keep practicing while undergoing treatment for alcoholism or drug addiction. Doctors are furious and other states are watching to see what happens.
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The F.D.A. has begun to crack down on the thousands of drugs, often made by small companies, that have never had to go through the agencyâs stringent approval process.
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WASHINGTON - At the Supreme Court Monday, the issue was medical marijuana -- and whether the federal government can stop patients from using it, even if a state&#39;s law says it&#39;s legal.
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LAZARAT, Albania  - Cannabis plants lay stacked up   like Christmas trees around a police station near this remote   Albanian village, a humbling sight for growers who two years   ago took pot-shots at an Italian police helicopter.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - There's a whiff of crisis in the air at the Dutch Health Ministry: It's sitting on a pile of pot that it just can't sell.    The Netherlands rolled out a program last year that allows patients to buy prescription marijuana at any pharmacy...
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Seriously ill people should be allowed to smoke marijuana if it is recommended by their doctors. We hope the US Supreme Court agrees and decides that patients in Maine and 10 other states with medical marijuana laws can get around the federal ban on pot.