With state legislative sessions winding down, it’s been pretty quiet on the medical marijuana front, except for California, where both localities and the legislature continue to grapple with the issue. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed Assembly Bill 258, which will bar doctors and hospitals from denying organ transplants to medical marijuana patients solely because they use it. Some patients have been denied life-saving organ transplants in the past. The new law goes into effect January 1. In addition, Senator Feinstein was delivered petitions demanding she get on board with medical marijuana. Marijuana reform advocates delivered the petition with 10,000 signatures from people “fed up with Feinstein’s well-documented opposition to medical marijuana” to her San Francisco office.

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