About Us

Medical Cannabis Journal is a medical marijuana magazine that is published bi-monthly. The content of MCJ consists of vital patient-information, contacts, a clinical directory, journalistic-quality articles, editorials, reports, patient testimonials and features that are also included on the website. The format of MCJ is approximately 100 full-color pages printed on high-quality earth-friendly papers.

Ron Niehouse

Ron Niehouse, Executive Director.

Ron is the founder of Medical Cannabis Journal, which is free to medical cannabis patients worldwide.

Starting MCJ to help those in need of information and understanding the medical aspects of cannabis.

A patient himself, Ron has interviewed many in the medical cannabis community.

Also, serving as Marketing Director and Publishing for Medical Cannabis Journal.

Born and raised in Southern California where the medical cannabis movement began.


 Mark Pedersen, Executive Editor. 

Mark is the founder of Cannabis Patient Network and Sensible Missouri.

Cannabis Patient Network is a national not-for-profit media organization dedicated to giving the chronically and terminally ill of our nation a voice.  Mark has conducted over 150 on-camera interviews with cannabis patients, activists, politicians and physicians from all over the country.


Sensible Missouri is a statewide patient advocacy org, created for the purpose of organizing Missouri's medical cannabis community into a bargaining body regarding all matters concerning the health and wellbeing of his home state's chronically and terminally ill. 

Mark is also on the Advisory Board for Patients Out of Time.  Patients Out of Time is our nation's leader in providing the cutting edge science regarding medical cannabis.


Featured Strains

Mr. Nice Guy

By CWCC

Master Bubba Kush

By Compassionate Patients Association ( has a new president and many new offers )

Submissions

FEATURED

14-Nov-11 13:18

MCJ Interviews Mary Lynn Mathre

I have been a registered Nurse for over 35 years. I began in medical/surgical adult care - nursing and the hospital system. Along the way, I learned about patients using cannabis. I have a Masters prepared background in medical/surgical nursing. In the early 80’s, I was a supervising nurse in a small hospital in Washington State. Our Director of Nursing was quite concerned because an elderly patient was coming in with what she called a “marijuana pill.

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MCJ Interviews Mary Lynn Mathre

I have been a registered Nurse for over 35 years. I began in medical/surgical adult care - nursing and the hospital system. Along the way, I learned about patients using cannabis. I have a Masters prepared background in medical/surgical nursing. In the early 80’s, I was a supervising nurse in a small hospital in Washington State. Our Director of Nursing was quite concerned because an elderly patient was coming in with what she called a “marijuana pill.

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IRS Ruling Against Harborside No Surprise by: Mark Pedersen

What has happened to Harborside, though regrettable and terribly tragic for those patients that rely on it, is far from being a surprise. The fact is, the only thing that has kept the state and Federal Governments from locking down ALL of the dispensaries in Cali and the other states with cannabis programs has been the sheer number of participants in their medical cannabis programs.

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Round Table Meeting with Judge James P. Gray, Judy K. Thompson & Ron Niehouse (MCJ)

If you’re gonna use any, well no, not my drug cause it’s a legal drug, that’s alcohol, that’s okay. I can be a social drinker. But if you’re marijuana, you’re the devil weed. They don’t draw those distinctions intentionally. And they will accuse me of being a drug legalizer. Well, what does that mean? Anytime you’re a drug legalizer it has the intended connotation that I don’t care if your 12 year old daughter buys some cocaine in a vending machine across from her junior high school. That’s the connotation that they want. Because it will freeze peoples minds. It will stop the discussion in its tracks & that’s exactly the intended outcome.

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We need you...

Any magazine is only as good as the quality of its writing. It’s not enough just to fill the pages. We decided early on that we would strive to make excellence and accuracy paramount virtues of MCJ.

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Blog

MCJ Interviews Mary Lynn Mathre

I have been a registered Nurse for over 35 years. I began in medical/surgical adult care - nursing and the hospital system. Along the way, I learned about patients using cannabis. I have a Masters prepared background in medical/surgical nursing. In the early 80’s, I was a supervising nurse in a small hospital in Washington State. Our Director of Nursing was quite concerned because an elderly patient was coming in with what she called a “marijuana pill.

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IRS Ruling Against Harborside No Surprise by: Mark Pedersen

What has happened to Harborside, though regrettable and terribly tragic for those patients that rely on it, is far from being a surprise. The fact is, the only thing that has kept the state and Federal Governments from locking down ALL of the dispensaries in Cali and the other states with cannabis programs has been the sheer number of participants in their medical cannabis programs.

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Activism

MCJ Interviews Mary Lynn Mathre

I have been a registered Nurse for over 35 years. I began in medical/surgical adult care - nursing and the hospital system. Along the way, I learned about patients using cannabis. I have a Masters prepared background in medical/surgical nursing. In the early 80’s, I was a supervising nurse in a small hospital in Washington State. Our Director of Nursing was quite concerned because an elderly patient was coming in with what she called a “marijuana pill.

Read More

IRS Ruling Against Harborside No Surprise by: Mark Pedersen

What has happened to Harborside, though regrettable and terribly tragic for those patients that rely on it, is far from being a surprise. The fact is, the only thing that has kept the state and Federal Governments from locking down ALL of the dispensaries in Cali and the other states with cannabis programs has been the sheer number of participants in their medical cannabis programs.

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