ALBANY – Patients and state lawmakers on Tuesday made a final push for New York to pass a bill that would provide emergency access to medical marijuana for ill patients.

BBC newsbeat ~

 

The First Church of Cannabis has been recognised as a church and charitable organisation in Indiana, despite the drug still being illegal in the state.

Ricardo Baca ~ The Cannabist ~

 

The newly launched National Cannabis Bar Association will officially launch with an NCIA event in Denver on June 30

Brigid Schulte ~ The Washington Post ~

 

With a wave of legalization measures in recent years, marijuana in some form is now legal in 38 states. But in the 12 where it is not — a swath of the west and Midwest, including Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas, and in the rust belt states of Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania — parents whose use of the drug would be legal elsewhere are losing their children and often seen as irresponsible parenting pariahs.

Kristen Gwynne ~ Rolling Stone ~