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Friday, June 22nd, 2007Ottawa Citizen 22 Jun 2007 SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT Teenagers are good at seeing through lies and half-truths. That’s why baseless propaganda, like the old movie Reefer Madness, doesn’t work. Why would anyone take advice from someone who doesn’t know what drugs actually do? The adults of Wawota Parkland School in Saskatchewan are acting like [...]
Travelers beware
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Globe and Mail 20 Jun 2007 DUBAI’S ZERO TOLERANCE Bert Tatham was on his way back to Canada from Afghanistan on April 23 when he made what he thought would be a brief stopover in Dubai to do some shopping. Instead, he was arrested at the airport and charged with a serious drug offense, which [...]
Gov says Yes to buy, sell and make hemp products – says No to growing
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Sacramento Bee, CA 21 Jun 2007 Steve Wiegand FEDS SHIELD OUR FARMS’ MORAL FIBER Sometimes there are aspects of lawmaking that remind one of scenes from “Alice in Wonderland,” such as when Alice has a circular conversation with the hookah-smoking caterpillar. This came to mind Tuesday morning, whilst sitting in Room 113 at the Capitol [...]
Cannabis now a city citation in Manitowoc
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Herald Times Reporter, WI 19 Jun 2007 Helen Clarke TICKETS FOR MARIJUANA POSSESSION OK’D Common Council Passes Ordinance MANITOWOC – Possession of marijuana is now an ordinance violation, and first-timers who get caught with the drug face a city citation rather than a misdemeanor charge. The Common Council decided Monday to make the change from [...]
Getting high off someone else’s supply
Friday, June 22nd, 2007June 22, 2007 Firefighters get high battling marijuana-fueled blaze in Texas EDINBURG, Texas (AP) – Some people get intoxicated watching a fire. But a group of Texas firefighters got high battling one. When a warehouse in Edinburg containing more than 900 kilograms of marijuana spent up in smoke Wednesday, firefighters spent half an hour battling [...]
Grant Krieger’s health rapidly deteriorating in prison
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Calgary Herald June 21, 2007 Deborah Tetley, Pot advocate sick in jail: family The condition of notorious medicinal marijuana crusader Grant Krieger — incarcerated at the Calgary Remand Centre since Monday — is “rapidly deteriorating,” according to his friends and family. “He’s having troubles getting around, he’s depressed and he’s in pain,” said Ryan Krieger, [...]
83 percent of residents support medical marijuana, yet Connecticut vetoed the bill
Thursday, June 21st, 2007Hartford Courant, CT 20 Jun 2007 Mark Pazniokas RELL VETOES MARIJUANA BILL Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have legalized the medical use of marijuana, saying that the bill was a well-intended, but flawed attempt to alleviate suffering. “I am not unfamiliar with the incredible pain and heartbreak associated with battling cancer,” [...]
Students reached out to Marijuana party for help
Thursday, June 21st, 2007The World-Spectator, SN 18 Jun 2007 Amanda Stephenson MARIJUANA DEBATE LEADS TO PROTEST, SUSPENSIONS AT WAWOTA SCHOOL What began as a discussion about the effects of marijuana ended in Wawota last week with a protest, a school lockdown, and the suspension of two students. Fifteen-year-old Kieran King and his 14-year-old brother Lucas were suspended from [...]
Cannabis-based drug for cancer pain being considered for use in Canada
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Rueters Canada Jun 19, 2007 Kerstin Neuber GW says Canada backs cannabis drug for cancer pain LONDON (Reuters) – A pioneering cannabis-based drug will be considered by Canadian regulators for approval as a treatment for cancer pain, its British developer GW Pharmaceuticals Plc said on Tuesday. The drug called Sativex is an under-the-tongue spray which [...]
Doctor turns to Canada for nutritional benefits of hemp seeds
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, CA 15 Jun 2007 Robert Rowen INSANITY OVER HEMP EDITOR: The recent arguments regarding marijuana don’t address the most important part of the topic. I am an alternative physician, vegetarian, medical journalist and strongly espouse super nutrition. With government insanity over hemp, citizens are denied their God-given liberty to grow [...]
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