California Medical Marijuana

A new Assembly bill was introduced this week to help protect medical marijuana users jobs. The bill is designed to prohibit discrimination against marijuana patients who use their medicine away from the workplace. Now, by no means can a patient use marijuana while on the job but this will stop people from getting fired who use medical marijuana responsibly away from the workplace to help their ailments.

The bill is Co-authored by two Bay area assembly men, Marc Leno D-San Francisco and Loni Hancock D-Berkley, as well as Patty Berg D-Eureka and Lori Saldana D-San Diego. The reason this team gathered to write this bill is stemmed from a court case from last month. (more…)

If you follow medical marijuana news at all you know that the DEA looooves to raid marijuana dispensaries and has been doing so up and down the coast for some time. This week The Berkeley City Council took action to prepare for raids against the city’s marijuana dispensaries. This could be happening just in time as their have been 5 dispensaries shut down in the last year in the bay area.

So what did they do you ask?

On Tuesday night The City Council UNANIMOUSLY passed a measure that makes a commitment by the city to (more…)

Thats right! A medical marijuana ATM. Herbal Nutrition Center(HNC), a popular cannabis co-op in Los Angeles has erected the very first Anytime Vending Machine. This AVM is going to be located in an isolated room with 24/7 security.

Although it’s not as easy as putting in money and receiving marijuana, it is a great resource for medical patients. To use this machine you first of course must have a medical marijuana prescription. Once your approved by HNC, you’re fingerprinted and given a pre-paid(1/8 or 1/4Oz with a limit of 1 ounce per week) credit card that has your personal information associated with it. Once you’ve got that you can go use the machine to receive your medication. Although the meds are limited to 5 strains(including OG kush, Purple Kush, and Wild Cherry) right now there are plans to expand that in the future and possibly even include (more…)

So how exactly is medical marijuana legal in California?

Well the answer is pretty simple, the citizens wanted it to be. In the 1996 elections California voted on and approved prop 215 otherwise known as the Compationate Use Act of 1996.

Proposition 215 has a few different parts so I’ll break the important ones down as much as I can although some parts leave the lines of legal/illegal very hazy. (more…)