US CA: PUB LTE: Drug War Victim

Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep 2012 – Re "A remedy in limbo," Column One, Sept. 14 If there’s one drug we should seriously consider criminalizing, it’s the one that’s being taken by the geniuses who would prevent a child like Jayden David from having access to a non-psychoactive component of marijuana. It seems further testing would be prudent, but it also seems that, for now, cannabidiol has wrought a miracle in the lives of this child and his parents in controlling terrible seizures that used to define his life.

US RI: Edu: Medical Marijuana Prohibited On Campus

The Brown Daily Herald, 11 Apr 2011 – Though medical marijuana is now legal in Rhode Island, administrators maintain that under both state and federal law, the University cannot allow smoking of marijuana on school grounds. Medical marijuana was legalized in Rhode Island June 16, 2009 after state legislators voted to override a veto by then-Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65. Three new dispensaries for medical marijuana will open in Rhode Island this summer.