By Ken Pinsky “Marijuana use that isn’t abuse” A decade ago the Hawai‘i State Legislature passed the Compassionate Use Law – the country’s first legislatively installed medical marijuana bill. Most other states with medical marijuana laws passed them by citizen initiative. Hawai‘i was different. Our legislature, bless their compassionate hearts at the time, saw the [...]
Hawaii has become the front line of the DEA’s war on marijuana culture Pa‘ia’s Patients Without Time, a MMJ cooperative, is about to go to trial By Tom Stevens On September 13, medical marijuana advocate Brian Murphy and five other Maui men are scheduled to appear in 2nd Circuit Court on charges of criminal conspiracy [...]
National Correspondent Phillip Swatek recently returned from assignment in Boulder, Colorado. The Moon conducted the following interview at Baldwin Beach. Interview: Moon: How’s Boulder these days? Phil: The weather was perfect. Clear, hot, dry, high nineties. Thunderheads and lightning some evenings. Good tequila. Prolonged and intelligent conversation. Moon: I meant socially, politically. Didn’t Boulder recently [...]
By Kristine Kubat The Reverend Nancy Harris is well positioned to speak for the embattled Roger Christie as he remains on lockdown in a federal facility on Oahu. Like Christie, she is the leader of a religious organization that promotes the use of marijuana as a sacrament, and, like Christie, she is fighting charges related [...]
Americans for Safe Access Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. ASA works to overcome political and legal barriers by creating policies that improve access to medical cannabis for patients and [...]
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