http://marijuananews.com/blog The Most Trusted Source for Marijuana and Cannabis News Since 1997 with Richard Cowan Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:00:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Medical Marijuana Bootcamp provides medical marijuana training, medical marijuana education and mmj  tutorials free to public, released on YouTube HD. It launched 1/1/2010. Reposted from ReeferSmoke.com: As if Weedmaps and Nugporn wasn't enough, on the first day of this new year those clever (and crazy) folks from the Marijuana News Network launched another new website: Medical Marijuana ... http://marijuananews.com/blog/2010/01/free-medical-marijuana-training-videos-bootcamp/ Source: [link] If you live in Los Angeles and are looking to obtain a medical marijuana card, you're in luck. There are many establishments you can go to that will give you one of these, and chances are there is one in your area. Ever since the state of ... http://marijuananews.com/blog/2009/08/get-a-medical-marijuana-card-in-los-angeles/ SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 07/23/09 -- Cannabis Science Inc. (OTCBB: CBIS), an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company, is pleased that today's Wall Street Journal article on the booming medical cannabis industry in California notes the role of Cannabis Science Inc. Commenting on why Cannabis Science was mentioned in the article, ... http://marijuananews.com/blog/2009/07/todays-wall-street-journal-reports-on-cannabis-science-inc-in-article-on-booming-medical-cannabis-industry-indicates-great-demand-for-products-from-a-patient-oriented-company/ by Richard Cowan Cowan@MarijuanaNews.com The Kubby/CSI dispute involves some very complicated issues, but my decision to vote to remove him as CEO was based on a few very simple points: First, when someone tells me that if I disagree with him I am therefore a thief, then I really must disagree with him. Second, ... http://marijuananews.com/blog/2009/07/someone-is-lying-kubby-fired-by-cannabis-science-accuses-melamede-and-cowan-of-theft-etc-are-you-a-thief-if-you-don%e2%80%99t-agree-with-me/ coming soon Analysis by Richard Cowan Even though California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has joined the calls for a debate on marijuana prohibition itself, there is still a lot of confusion about the legal status of the supposedly less controversial topic of “medical marijuana”. On April 2nd the Associated Press reported that Los Angeles ... http://marijuananews.com/blog/2009/06/california%e2%80%99s-medical-marijuana-dispensary-system-%e2%80%93-a-question-for-chief-bratton-what-is-more-important-the-patients-or-marijuana-prohibition-what-is-really-%e2%80%98looney-tunes-2/ Analysis by Richard Cowan Even though California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has joined the calls for a debate on marijuana prohibition itself, there is still a lot of confusion about the legal status of the supposedly less controversial topic of “medical marijuana”.  On April 2nd the Associated Press reported that Los Angeles Police ... http://marijuananews.com/blog/2009/06/california%e2%80%99s-medical-marijuana-dispensary-system-%e2%80%93-a-question-for-chief-bratton-what-is-more-important-the-patients-or-marijuana-prohibition-what-is-really-%e2%80%98looney-tunes/ The most outrageous, loathsome and malicious raid on a medical marijuana collective that I have ever heard of has just happened and it is next to IE in Pomona. I have printed below what I was sent by the patients and advocates involved in the raid - this sounds like ... http://marijuananews.com/blog/2009/05/grotesque-pomona-collective-raid-ends-in-million-dollar-bail/ * On Monday April 27, 2009, 8:41 am EDT SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cannabis Science Inc. (OTCBB: GFON - News), an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company, reported today on the current state of development of its whole-cannabis lozenge in response to Homeland Security Administration Secretary Janet Napolitano’s declaration of a public health emergency to ... http://marijuananews.com/blog/2009/04/cannabis-science-inc-reports-on-prospective-life-saving-treatments-for-h1n1-swine-flu-and-h5n1-bird-flu-in-view-of-the-current-global-threat/ With 12 states and counting passing laws legalizing medical marijuana, more and more patients are able to obtain this medicine without breaking the law.  There are an increasing number of studies concluding that cannabis has properties in it that help all sorts of conditions, from nausea and PMS to anxiety ... http://marijuananews.com/blog/2009/04/how-to-get-your-medical-marijuana-prescription/ As Quoted from 2008 News Clippings in the MAP DrugNews Archive While the U.S. deficit approaches $1 trillion, many states and local communities also face major budgetary shortfalls. Yet, despite the economic crisis, your tax dollars continue to fund drug war costs like these: $40 billion for the drug war. "Despite a $40 ... http://marijuananews.com/blog/2009/04/the-high-cost-of-the-drug-war/