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Attorney: City pursuing criminal charges because HIV-positive woman won’t waive civil liability

By | 01.17.13 | 11:34 am

DEARBORN, MICH. – Dearborn prosecutors are continuing to pursue a marijuana possession charge against an HIV-positive woman because she refuses to waive her right to sue the city over alleged discrimination, the woman’s attorneys say. More…

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EXCLUSIVE: Police video prompts allegations of HIV discrimination

By | 09.19.12 | 3:09 pm

LANSING, Mich. — A Dearborn, Mich., police officer was caught on tape telling a man and a woman that he was issuing them traffic and marijuana possession tickets because he was “aggravated” that the woman failed to disclose her HIV-positive status before he searched the couple’s car. The incident has More…

Study: suicide rates fall when states legalize medical marijuana

By Scot Kersgaard | 02.24.12 | 7:15 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

A University of Colorado economics professor has co-authored a study, just released by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany, that concludes that suicide rates among young males More…decline markedly after states legalize medical marijuana. Professors at Montana State University and San Diego State University were also

Coloradans on probation from using medical marijuana

By Scot Kersgaard | 02.10.12 | 11:00 am | More from The Colorado Independent

When the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled last week in People v. Watkins More… that Coloradans on probation do not have the right to use or possess medical marijuana, it shined a bright spotlight on the elephant in the room: when it comes to medical marijuana, legal doesn’t always mean legal.

Colorado marijuana legalization initiative moves forward

By Scot Kersgaard | 01.12.12 | 3:32 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

When it comes to marijuana, Colorado has been at the forefront for years, and that will only intensify in the 10 months between now and Election Day. More…

AMA Study: moderate marijuana use does not decrease pulmonary function

By Scot Kersgaard | 01.11.12 | 8:26 am | More from The Colorado Independent

A study released Tuesday by the Journal of the American Medical Association found that people who smoke marijuana once a week or so do not suffer from reduced pulmonary function and may actually see improvements in their pulmonary function. More …

More signatures than needed gathered to introduce an amendment legalizing medical marijuana in Colorado

By Scot Kersgaard | 01.05.12 | 11:02 am | More from The Colorado Independent

This morning, proponents of a statewide initiative to legalize and regulate marijuana submitted nearly 160,000 signatures in support of placing the measure on the 2012 ballot. Only 86,105 valid signatures of registered Colorado voters are needed to qualify. More…

Youngest medical marijuana patient’s cancer returns

By Scot Kersgaard | 12.20.11 | 2:39 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

If life were fair you wouldn’t be reading this story.
Cash Hyde, a 3-year-old cancer patient whose use of cannabis oil was considered by his parents to be instrumental in his recovery from chemotherapy, is back in the hospital receiving radiation therapy for his once-again prominent brain tumor.
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