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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Packet & Times, ON 26 Jun 2007 Howard J. Wooldridge EXPERIENCE SHOWS MARIJUANA USE DOESN’T GENERATE VIOLENCE During my 18 years of police service, I was sent to zero calls for service generated by the use of marijuana. With all due respect to my colleague, Const. Jay Hutton, his statement about marijuana being linked to [...]
In the war on drugs, common sense is the first casualty
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007St. Petersburg Times, FL 27 Jun 2007 Debra J. Saunders IN WAR ON DRUGS, FREE SPEECH IS A CASUALTY In its 1969 Tinker decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an Iowa public school could not expel students who wore black armbands to protest the Vietnam War because students do not “shed their constitutional rights [...]
First amendment does not protect students, USA
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007National Post 26 Jun 2007 Sheldon Alberts END OF THE BONG SHOW AS STUDENT LOSES CASE U.S. Top Court Rules Banner Promoted The Use Of Drugs Sheldon Alberts CanWest News Service, with files from Reuters WASHINGTON – In a decision that restricts the free-speech rights of students, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against an Alaska [...]
Principle violated student’s right to free speech, Canada
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007The Journal, ON 26 Jun 2007 LOCKDOWN ON FREE SPEECH Several months ago 15-year-old Grade 10 student Kieran King heard a presentation about drug use in a high-school class. Thinking the presentation poorly researched, King sought out information on the Internet about the relative health risks of alcohol, marijuana and tobacco. He told some of [...]
Grant Krieger – Still in jail and now denied a wheelchair! Read more to lend your support
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007June 26, 2007 Veronica Horn (Article previously posted on June 24, 2007) Grant Krieger suffers from multiple sclerosis and has legal permission to smoke marijuana for medical purposes. In March 2007, Judge William Pepler had ordered Corrections Canada to find a way for Grant to medicate with cannabis while in prison due to his one [...]
Ground breaking lawsuit may help other patients from suffering
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Rocky Mountain News, CO 23 Jun 2007 Katie Kerwin McCrimmon Colorado — An AIDS patient who says he needs to smoke marijuana every day to ease nausea from his medications is suing the state of Colorado to expand access to marijuana providers. “My medicines are really devastating. The only thing that soothes the nausea is [...]
Finally something tasty for the cannabis connoisseur
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007The Winnipeg Sun 26 Jun 2007 Local energy-drink maker pitches to pot-heads Munchies aren’t included with a caffeinated drink a Winnipeg-based company is now distributing. Clarus Canadian Springs is carrying Bong Water Energized Sports Drinks, a line of beverages where references to marijuana and the drug subculture abound.
Fed’s go after injured marine for growing licensed medical marijuana
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007The Steamboat Pilot & Today, CO 19 Jun 2007 Mike McCollum POT LAW APPEAL WORRIES NORD Steamboat Springs — Don Nord grew and harvested three marijuana plants last fall to help ease the pain brought on by the numerous medical conditions from which he suffers. Nord has been an active medical marijuana proponent for many [...]
Proof why medication should be left in the hands of doctors NOT politicians!
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007New York Times 17 Jun 2007 Henry I. Miller CRACKPOT LEGISLATION MANY states nationwide are considering legislation to legalize the medical use of marijuana. Last week, one such bill cleared both houses in Connecticut ( but at press time had not yet been signed by the governor ), New York appears likely to follow suit [...]
Patients are telling their side of medical marijuana use
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007New York Times 24 Jun 2007 A CRITICAL NEED FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA To the Editor: I read Henry I. Miller’s denunciation of New York’s medical marijuana legislation ( “Crackpot Legislation,” Op-Ed, June 17 ) with shock and dismay. I have some personal experience with this issue. Marijuana pulled me back from the brink when AIDS-related [...]
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