Archive for July, 2007
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Monday, July 9th, 2007Reuters Jul 7, 2007 California’s ‘ganja guru’ vows conviction appeal SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California’s “ganja guru” will not have to go to jail but still plans to appeal felony marijuana convictions with the aim of renewing a courtroom fight over state and federal laws that are sharply at odds. Ed Rosenthal, author of “Why [...]
Cannabis is an exit drug, not a gateway drug
Monday, July 9th, 2007The Canadian Press July 8, 2007 Alexander Panetta Pot busts surge in some cities now that decriminalization bill’s dead OTTAWA (CP) – The number of people arrested for smoking pot rose dramatically in several Canadian cities last year after the Conservatives took office and killed a bill to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. The spike [...]
Inconsisteny the only constant in pot busts
Monday, July 9th, 2007The Canadian Press July 8, 2007 Alexander Panetta Your fate if arrested for pot smoking? Yawning indifference or strip searches MONTREAL (CP) – Marc-Boris St-Maurice has been arrested so many times for marijuana possession that he serves as a one-man clinical study in the fate reserved for those caught with small amounts of pot. The [...]
Municipality and rental owners butt heads
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Cowichan News Leader, BC 07 Jul 2007 Rebecca Aldous DOPE BYLAW IGNORED Landowners are turning a blind eye to North Cowichan’s bylaw mandating bi-monthly property inspections. In February, the municipality introduced the bylaw to crack down on marijuana growing operations. But Rental Owners and Managers Society of British Columbia director Arthur Allan says it is [...]
On common sense, kids and prohibition
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Sunday Star-Times, New Zealand 08 Jul 2007 Michael Laws MAKE DRUGS LEGAL AND REGULATE LIKE MAD One of the worst things about parenthood is the instinctual wisdom that some day, somehow, somewhere, something will go wrong with your kids. If you’re lucky it will be a broken arm playing on the jungle gym or the [...]
California collectives in danger of becoming obsolete
Sunday, July 8th, 2007The Desert Sun, CA 08 Jul 2007 K Kaufmann GROUP SEEKS CLARITY ON RULES FOR COLLECTIVES Six Coachella Valley cities have banned marijuana dispensaries Medical marijuana patients and advocates in the Coachella Valley are pushing Riverside County officials to set guidelines to allow collective groups or cooperatives to grow and dispense the drug legally. As [...]
Attempt to expand Hawaii’s medicinal bill fails
Sunday, July 8th, 2007Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI 07 Jul 2007 GIVE PROTECTION TO PATIENTS WHO NEED MEDICAL MARIJUANA The Issue A bill that would have given added protection to patients treated by medical marijuana died in the House in this year’s session. STATE laws allowing medical use of marijuana have been on the books for nearly a decade but [...]
No eviction for pot-smoking granny
Saturday, July 7th, 2007BBC News, UK July 6, 2007 Gran wins cannabis home use row Patricia Tabram said the judgement vindicated her way of life A grandmother convicted of growing cannabis at her Northumberland cottage, can continue using the drug at home. Patricia Tabram, 68, from Humshaugh, was found guilty in March of possessing and cultivating cannabis, which [...]
Indigenous man fights for right to grow hemp, USA
Saturday, July 7th, 2007Standing Silent Nation June 2007 Alex White Plume’s Update June 2007 -The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the local district court’s decision will stand, but they also said that there is a hemp farm and there is a marijuana farm, and so they distinguished between the two species of plants. But only Congress can [...]
New Mexico will grow their own
Saturday, July 7th, 2007Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, ON 02 Jul 2007 Deborah Baker N.M. TO GROW MARIJUANA FOR ITS RESIDENTS SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own. The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from prosecution – as 11 [...]
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