Last year, the New York Assembly voted to pass legislation that would make it legal to use marijuana medicinally under a doctor’s care. The Senate Majority Leader, Joe Bruno, quickly killed the bill. On Wednesday, The New York Assembly voted again, 89-52, to pass Assemblyman Richard Gottfried’s (revised) medical marijuana bill, A.4867B.
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Filed under: Legal & Political on June 21st, 2008 | No Comments »

The Marijuana Policy Project recently began airing television ads in New York in favor of pending medical cannabis legislation. In the commercial, Burton Aldrich, a quadriplegic man from Kingston, explains how medical marijuana helps with his excruciating pain and spasms by saying, “I … don’t know if I would be around if it wasn’t for [...]

Filed under: Legal & Political on June 14th, 2008 | No Comments »

Almost 400 thousand people were arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession in the past ten years, and a new study sponsored by the New York Civil Liberties Union says the crackdown is both racist and fraudulent.

Filed under: Legal & Political on May 10th, 2008 | 5 Comments »

This Wednesday (April 30) in New York City, The New York City Bar Association will be hosting a lecture called “New York City’s Marijuana Arrest Policy: Thirty Years After Decriminalization”. The lecture, based on research by Professor Harry Levine (Queens College), Deborah Small (head of Breaking the Chains), and Bruce D. Johnson (Ph.D), will discuss and review law enforcement patterns, alternative policing practices, and targeting cannabis consumers.

Filed under: Legal & Political, Tutorials on April 28th, 2008 | 4 Comments »