East Coast Cannabis News and Culture

Drug Testing Hits Marijuana Users the Hardest

“Well, I didn’t really smoke it. My roommate blew it in my face. A bunch of times. Do you think I’ll pass?” First I tried to figure out why my friend felt the need to have pot smoke blown repeatedly in her face. A fear of holding joints? A mating ritual akin to “Why [...]

Medical Cannabis Helps ALS Patient Outlive her Own Doctors

Medical Cannabis Helps ALS Patient Outlive her Own Doctors Last month, Cathy Jordan sat on a panel at the Cannabis Therapeutics Conference in Arizona. Before taking the stage, she discussed the medical use of cannabis for ALS with Jahan Marcu, the Science Editor at Freedom is Green. Cathy Jordan first noticed something was wrong [...]

Obama Speaks Out on Recent Medical Marijuana Raids in Rolling Stone Magazine

Barack Obama and his administration seem to be a bundle of contradictions when it comes to regulations surrounding the production of medical marijuana in our country. In turn, states have been stymied (or chosen to stonewall, as in the case of New Jersey’s Governor Chris Christie) by the confusion, when attempting to enact their own [...]

CONSTITUTIONAL LAWSUIT FILED OVER FAILED NJ MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROGRAM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 4, 2012 ATTORNEYS WILLIAM H. BUCKMAN AND ANNE M. DAVIS CONTACT: Anne Davis Esq. 732 477 4700, William Buckman Esq. 856 608 9797 or Chris Goldstein 267 702 3731 CONSTITUTIONAL LAWSUIT FILED OVER FAILED NJ MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROGRAM Trenton- Today a lawsuit was filed against the State of New Jersey over the failure [...]

Cannabis College Crackdown and Other New World Orders

Today, I woke up to find that the Supreme Court of the United States ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband. Now, I’m no Constitutional know-it-all by [...]

Patricia Smith – Behind Bars in the New Hampshire Department of Corrections

Patricia Smith’s appeal was denied several months ago. This New Hampshire-based nurse with no criminal background is currently serving the next 2 – 4 years in the New Hampshire Department of Corrections for growing marijuana in her own home. Financially she was nailed too, paying over $35,000 in fines. Letters to inmates help considerably [...]

Marijuana Stories – The Right, The Left and The Pantsless

I receive Google alerts every day for “women and marijuana” as part of my ongoing research for Freedom is Green. It’s usually a strange compendium of criminal reports (including two women who were found pantless in their car after St. Patrick’s day. Ladies, reign it in!), political and legal issues, and scientific reports. One thing [...]

NJ Gov Chris Christie Plays Medical Marijuana Doctor on Radio

3/1/2012 - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took calls and emails on NJ 101.5 last night. One of the emails asked if he would consider clemency for medical marijuana patient John Ray Wilson. In his answer Christie relied heavily on a report from his Counsel’s office. Apparently, just one briefing from his in-house attorneys was [...]

Martial Artist Ronda Rousey Speaks Out on Medical Marijuana

Ronda Rousey speaks out (actually shouts out, if you listen to the interview below) on medical marijuana after fellow fighter Nick Diaz tested positive for marijuana. Due to his attention deficit disorder, Diaz has a medical marijuana card in California, but unfortunately, it doesn’t supersede commission policy. Rousey fights back by saying that Diaz’s privacy [...]

Medical Marijuana Activists Set to Destroy DEA Ruling

2/16/2012 – Activists are preparing to gather at the Federal building in Trenton today to destroy a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ruling as part of a national medical marijuana protest. Members of NORML-NJ and The Coalition for Medical Marijuana New Jersey will shred a copy of The Federal Register Vol. 76 No.131 dated July 8, [...]