Archive for July, 2007
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Thursday, July 12th, 2007Hartford Courant, CT 11 Jul 2007 Paul Armentano GOOD MEDICINE Study: Medical Marijuana Smokes ‘Legal Alternative’ When Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed legislation last month that would have allowed citizens with debilitating medical conditions to use medical cannabis under their doctor’s supervision, she alleged that there was no proof of pot’s therapeutic effectiveness and that [...]
Westcoast pot kings living the high life
Thursday, July 12th, 2007The Coquitlam Now, BC 11 Jul 2007 WHAT’S REALLY FUELING THIS ECONOMIC BOOM? B.C. produces 40 per cent of Canada’s pot, according to the World Drug Report 2007, released this week by the United Nations. In 2005, most of the world’s pot was grown in the Americas ( 23 per cent in North America and [...]
Santa Barbara recognizes bureaucracy burden on cannabis arrests
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Los Angeles Times 11 Jul 2007 Steve Chawkins JUDGE REJECTS LAWSUIT OVER POT Santa Barbara Loses Its Fight Against a Statute That Makes the Private Use of Marijuana by Adults the City’s Lowest Crime-Fighting Priority. A Santa Barbara judge has upheld a city ordinance requiring police to make enforcement of marijuana laws their lowest crime-fighting [...]
Letter to Editor: Hypocrisy of prohibition
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Metrowest Daily News, MA 10 Jul 2007 THE MARIJUANA CARTEL Kathleen Parker’s July 8th column was right on target. Marijuana prohibition has done little other than burden millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens with criminal records. The University of Michigan’s Monitoring the Future Study reports that lifetime use of marijuana is higher in the U.S. than [...]
A time of potential political change
Thursday, July 12th, 2007Regina Leader-Post, SN 11 Jul 2007 Murray Mandryk POLITICS HAS ITS OWN FRINGE FESTIVAL Worried that you won’t be given enough choice on the next provincial election ballot? Don’t be. No fewer than eight registered political parties submitted returns for 2006, according to Elections Saskatchewan. They included: Green Party of Saskatchewan; New Democratic Party, Sask. [...]
Letter to Editor: Time to take a stand
Thursday, July 12th, 2007National Post 11 Jul 2007 POT USERS, UNITE Re: Canadian Pot Use Four Times Global Rate, July 10. Cannabis has never killed a single human in all of our recorded history. It has been proven time and time again to have many medical and general health benefits. The “gateway drug” theory was long ago disproved [...]
Californians offered treatment over jail time – try just leaving them alone
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Chicago Sun-Times, IL 07 Jul 2007 Tony Newman TREATMENT TRUMPS JAIL FOR FIRST-TIME OFFENDERS Al Gore III’s mug shot appeared in newspapers across the country Thursday thanks to his arrest Wednesday on charges of possession of marijuana and prescription pills. An Orange County sheriff’s deputy pulled him over for driving his Toyota Prius at 100 [...]
Most Canadians do not abuse cannabis, so why is it still illegal?
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007National Post July 11, 2007 Legalizing pot makes sense If you had to guess which of the world’s countries consumed a lot of marijuana, and you had only crude, tabular economic information instead of facts about culture to work from, you would probably look for a physically huge land mass with a long open border [...]
Cannabis has become an accepted mainstream cultural substance, despite prohibition
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Edmonton Sun, AB July 11, 2007 MINDELLE JACOBS Politics and potheads Next year will mark a century since the 1908 Opium Act and Canada’s initial tortuous, costly and fruitless attempt to use the law as a whip to scare people off illicit drugs. The UN’s 2007 World Drug Report is the latest in a long [...]
Legalize it, tax the hell out of it and put the money into health care
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007The Province, BC July 11, 2007 David Carrigg and Glenda Luymes Decriminalize pot: Campbell B.C. senator and ex-mayor says possession should result in fine Marc Emery reacts to the news by taking a bong hit in the headquarters of Cannabis Culture Marijuana Magazine. Possession of marijuana should result in a fine, not a criminal record, [...]
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