In the first two years of its medical marijuana law, the state of Michigan’s MMJ licensing program has brought in over $8 million in profit on less than $10 million in revenue – a profit margin any business would be extremely jealous of. The medical marijuana program is growing at a rate not foreseen by [...]
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Medical Marijuana Inc Plans to Petition DEA for License to Cultivate Medicinal Marijuana
June 19th, 2011 
Greenleafaz SAN DIEGO, CA–(Marketwire – Jun 13, 2011) – Medical Marijuana Inc (PINKSHEETS: MJNA) is pleased to announce completion of a draft for a preliminary petition to the Federal Government to obtain a DEA sanctioned License to cultivate marijuana for medicinal purposes. In the US there are now 15 States which recognize the medicinal benefits of [...]
Off-the-job medical marijuana use does not bar firing: Wash. high court
June 18th, 2011 Greenleafaz OLYMPIA, Wash.—The state’s Medical Use of Marijuana Act does not prohibit employers from firing workers for using pot off the job, Washington’s Supreme Court has ruled. The medical marijuana law, adopted by Washington state voters in 1998, does not “provide a private cause of action for discharge of an employee who uses medical marijuana,” nor [...]
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Seniors’ Medical Pot Collective Faces Opposition in California
June 18th, 2011 Greenleafaz A senior citizen “pot collective” is facing growing criticism in a Southern California retirement community, highlighting disparate viewpoints about marijuana in older Americans. In a classic tale of old people who want to get a little stoned, 150 residents of the 18,000-person gated retirement community Laguna Woods Village set up a little weed distribution [...]
MT legislator: Marijuana should be a state issue–Feds should stand down
June 17th, 2011 Greenleafaz Montana legislator Diane Sands is floating a radical idea–that the feds should leave the states alone when it comes to medical marijuana. Specifically, she said marijuana should be delisted at the federal level. Serving as a progressive lesbian Democrat in a state house where Republicans have a 68-32 advantage, she says has taught her a [...]
An Update To Imperial Beach Dispensary Ban
June 16th, 2011 Greenleafaz A bit of sad news out of the small town called Imperial Beach. The city council has voted Unanimously (minus one absent participant) to ban all medical marijuana dispensaries from the town. Share The Green Leaf
Dwight Holton, Medical Marijuana Foe or Activist for Big Pharma?
June 16th, 2011 Greenleafaz Don’t U.S. attorneys have real things to do with their time? And where did Holton’s orders to go after Oregon medical cannabis patients really evolve from? (SALEM, Ore.) – The top federal attorney in Oregon, Dwight Holton, has written an extensive article carried in the Oregonian complaining at length about Oregon’s medical marijuana laws. It [...]
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