Showing posts with label Legal. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Washington State Medical Cannabis Patients To Rally July 24

By Kirk Ludden

In 1978, Washington state lawmakers passed legislation known as the “Controlled Substances Therapeutic Research Act” establishing a THC/cannabis research program within the Washington State Board of Pharmacy.

In 1998, voters overwhelmingly approved medical cannabis allowing for compassionate care creating RCW 69.51A.

On April 29, 2011, poor judgment and lack of leadership on the part of then-Governor Christine Gregoire led to the vetoing of regulation sections in E2SSB 5073 for medical cannabis. These sections would likely have given medicinal cannabis the legal protection it needed once I-502 passed.

In 2012, with promises of “I-502 won’t harm patients”

Thursday, July 09, 2015

The Law Should Not Treat Bill Cosby Differently Because He Gave a Speech


Members of Black Leadership Group Say U.S. District Court Judge Was Wrong to Release Transcript of Deposition in a Cosby Civil Case Explicitly Because Cosby Gave a 2005 Speech in Telling Young Black Parents to do a Better Job Raising Their Children 

WASHINGTON, DC -- Members of the Project 21 black conservative leadership network are weighing in following news that documents in a civil case related to allegations that Bill Cosby molested a Temple University employee were made public by a U.S. district court judge specifically because Dr. Cosby has publicly criticized the way many black parents rear their children.