Latest Cannabis Headlines
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Monarch E&S Offers Medical Marijuana Program in California, Hawaii
Mar 23 2010 // Monarch E&S Insurance Services has a new medical marijuana program available to California and Hawaii agents. This program for medical marijuana dispensaries is offering a package, property and general liability...
California Police Find Pot Warehouse After Fire
Oct 22 2009 // Oakland police say they’ve uncovered at least 1,000 marijuana plants after a fire in a warehouse. Fire officials say it took crews about 10 minutes to get the fire under control in the one-story warehouse in East...
California Insurance Agents Cater to Medical Marijuana Clinics
Sep 21 2009 // Ever since the Obama Administration said it would not pursue medical marijuana dispensaries, the number of such businesses has exploded in California. Now, a few insurance agents are catering to them. Medical marijuana...
California Insurance Agents Cater to Medical Marijuana Clinics
Sep 14 2009 // Ever since President Barak Obama came into office and his attorney general said the administration would not pursue medical marijuana dispensaries, the number of such businesses has exploded. Now, a few insurance agents...
New York Governor Reveals Past Marijuana And Cocaine Use
Mar 26 2008 // New York’s new governor, who disclosed last week that he and his wife both committed adultery several years ago, said that he used cocaine in his 20s and smoked marijuana when he was younger. In reference to cocaine,...
Declarations
Feb 10 2008 // Remaining Confident “We remain confident that there will be a day when medical marijuana patients are not discriminated against in the workplace.” —Safe Access attorney Joe Elford, reacting to a decision by...
Calif. High Court Rules Employers Can Fire Workers Using Medical Marijuana
Jan 28 2008 // Employers can fire workers found to have used medical marijuana even if it was legally prescribed, the California Supreme Court ruled last Thursday, dealing the state another setback in its standoff with U.S. law...
News Currents
Jul 23 2007 // The co-worker and the shop foreman testified that McIntosh didn’t appear to be impaired by marijuana use before the accident. Tenn. court: marijuana not a factor in worker’s injury The Tennessee Supreme Court...
Tenn. Supreme Court Rules Marijuana Not a Factor in Worker’s Injury
Jul 9 2007 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that a worker whose hand was crushed by machinery at his workplace was not to blame for the accident despite his admitted marijuana use off the job. Billy McIntosh was injured in 2004...
Insurers Paying Claims for Losses of Medical Marijuana
Aug 1 2001 // According to an AP Online report, insurers are paying out claims to a growing number of medical marijuana users whose backyard pot plants were stolen by thieves or confiscated by police. The payouts are not based on the...
