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Let each 4/20 bring us closer to complete marijuana legalization
Each year, the relevant dialogue about marijuana legalization moves even further as a serious dialogue rather than anything susceptible to being portrayed as stoners' folly. Worldwide each year, marijuana becomes more accepted for medicinal purposes and more widely legalized and decriminalized for recreational purposes. April...
Virginia Marijuana Law – The Commonwealth Crystallizes It’s Law Allowing CBD & THC-A Oils For Epilepsy
Virginia is far behind the medical marijuana states that have made marijuana possession and use lawful for numerous medical ailments. Virginia law limits legal marijuana medicinal use (only in the form of cannabidiol oil ("CBD oil") and THC-A oil) to epilepsy, and pursuant to a...
DEA says Marijuana Extract & CBD are Schedule I Drugs – Virginia law on CBD and THC-A oil
After all the dizzying strides that the marijuana industry has made in Colorado and other states where marijuana has become lawful, and continued efforts to legalize domestic hemp production, the Trump administration's marijuana policies may make federal litigation all the more necessary and extensive to...
Make Marijuana Legal By The Next 4/20
By now, with medical marijuana legalized in so many states and legalized in four states for recreational use, we know that marijuana appeals far beyond stereotypical stoners. Its medicinal uses for pain, anxiety, depression, and attention deficit disorder come without many of the undesirable side...
The DEA will decide whether to reclassify marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II
The articles are many about the United States Drug Enforcement Administration's plans to decide in the first half of 2016 whether to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule II drug. Unfortunately, too many mass media and even special interest websites do not link...
Fairfax Marijuana Lawyer | Virginia Cannabis Attorney
Home » You searched for medical marijuana » Page 2 Fairfax Marijuana Lawyer | Virginia Cannabis Attorney Marijuana Defense Lawyer for Possession / Sale / Medical Use / Cultivation Fairfax Virginia Marijuana Lawyer / DUI Attorney Defending marijuana, all other drugs, felony and misdemeanor cases...
Beware unreliable handheld breath tests for marijuana impairment
Law enforcement and tough-on-crime politicians rely too heavily on testing for alcohol to determine whether one has violated the drinking and driving laws, rather than to return to the sensible days when breath and blood testing (with breath testing already being highly flawed) was but...
Marijuana will tremendously benefit plenty of veterans. Why does the federal government deny access to it?
Support our troops is a common refrain —- urging such support regardless of one’s views of the military’s policies and actions — particularly when soldiers are at war. However, eighteen to twenty year olds are treated as responsble enough to carry and shoot weapons in...
Anatomy of my recent Virginia marijuana cultivation trial victory
Image from public domain. Many medical marijuana users grow multiple marijuana plants to assure an uninterrupted supply of quality medicine. When one is prosecuted for growing multiple marijuana plants in the jurisdictions where I practice (where only Maryland has an affirmative medical marijuana defense among the jurisdictions...
Discovering and Addressing Marijuana’s Benefits and Harms: Four perspectives
Image from public domain. Recently, I spoke about marijuana’s safety and marijuana laws with a forensic chemist who typically testifies for the criminal defense side. He believes very strongly in keeping marijuana illegal — even for medicinal use — and that its benefits are far outweighed...