Seniors Take Cautious Embrace of Medical Marijuana
WALNUT CREEK >> At first glance, the monthly meeting of the Rossmoor Medical Marijuana Education and Support Club looks like many of the 200 other clubs within this community of 10,000, most 55 or older.
The club is Rossmoor’s second-largest, as measured by its 600 email followers, behind only the Democrats of Rossmoor. And aside from the table at the back of the room with a spread of marijuana-related pamphlets, and the medical professionals up front talking about various aspects of medical cannabis, it could be any (rather large) Rossmoor meeting where residents’ walkers line the aisles between the seats. Seniors, and some adult children and/or caretakers, were asking lots of questions about how pot can relieve maladies ranging from aches and pains to cancer, its various forms and ways to take it.
It is clear this isn’t your father’s senior club. But increasingly, it is your grandfather’s club.
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Utah Patients Coalition Launches
2018 Medical Cannabis Ballot
Initiative Campaign
Patients and advocates will file ballot initiative language with the lieutenant governor later today; the ballot initiative will establish a medical cannabis program for patients in the state.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Utah Patients Coalition has launched its 2018 ballot initiative campaign to establish a medical cannabis program for patients in Utah, according to a press release.
The proposed ballot initiative would allow patients to legally and safely access medical cannabis with the recommendation of their doctor. It represents a conservative approach to medical cannabis policy by prohibiting home cultivation and prohibiting smoking medical cannabis.
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