Archive for July, 2007
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Saturday, July 7th, 2007The Ledger, FL 06 Jul 2007 MEDICAL MARIJUANA At least 10 of the 18 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are now on the record in favor of ending the Drug Enforcement Administration’s raids on medical marijuana and/or the federal government’s prohibition on medical marijuana. Thanks to the Marijuana Policy Project’s work, seven candidates have publicly [...]
Policy makers try again to get a hemp bill past the govenator
Saturday, July 7th, 2007Chico Enterprise-Record, CA 6 Jul 2007 HEMP FARMING STILL A POSSIBILITY Growing industrial hemp may not be against state law in California before long, but the state will give hemp farming the training-wheels treatment. Federal law currently bans hemp cultivation, but that’s being challenged in court by North Dakota, one of several states that allows [...]
Pot smokers might revolt, if they weren’t so mellow
Saturday, July 7th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA 06 Jul 2007 Kathleen Parker GORE III CASE SPOTLIGHTS POT DEBATE NEWS that Al Gore’s 24-year-old son, Al Gore III, was busted for pot and assorted prescription pills has unleashed a torrent of mirth in certain quarters. Gore-phobes on the Internet apparently view the son’s arrest and incarceration as comeuppance for [...]
No shortage of hypocrisy and hype
Saturday, July 7th, 2007AlterNet July 6, 2007 Norman Kent Senator, You Used to Be a Pot Head — Now You’re Talking Like a Narc Editor’s Note: The following is a letter addressed to Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman — a strong advocate of the brutal federal drug laws on the books — reminding him that he used to [...]
Rick Reimer loses court battle, still believes common sense was not used
Friday, July 6th, 2007The Daily Observer July 06, 2007 STEPHEN UHLER; Tina Peplinskie Marijuana activist Rick Reimer has lost his day in court. In a written decision released Thursday, Ottawa Justice C. McKinnon threw out the $3 million civil suit launched by the former Pembroke lawyer, who possesses a medical exemption to smoke, grow and cultivate marijuana to [...]
Although legalized, marijuana remains a marginalized option in the medical community
Friday, July 6th, 2007The Durango Herald, CO July 1, 2007 Ted Holteen | Herald Staff Writer Pain relief Two Durangoans advocate use of plant to treat physical ailments Durango prides itself on being a “green” city, but two local men think it could be greener. Eric Gay checks on the medicinal marijuana plants at his home on Friday. [...]
Five-patient maximum not realistic or fair to ailing patients
Friday, July 6th, 2007Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO 04 Jul 2007 David Montero Pot Law on Hold JUDGE TEMPORARILY HALTS MEDICAL MARIJUANA LIMIT For now, David Damien LaGoy can get his marijuana – thanks in large part to a judge’s ruling Tuesday. LaGoy sued the state because the registered medical marijuana provider he wanted to use, Daniel Pope, [...]
Realtors and police may join forces to protect potential homeowners
Friday, July 6th, 2007The Record, ON 05 Jul 2007 Cherri Greeno HOME-GROW REGISTRY WANTED Real Estate Board Asks Police To Let Homeowners Know Locations Of Busted Marijuana Operations Real estate agents and local police are working together to ensure potential homeowners don’t get duped into buying a home once used in an illegal drug operation. “We do have [...]
Inconsistent penalties for cannabis convictions in the USA
Friday, July 6th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA 05 Jul 2007 Bob Egelko NATION’S POT PENALTIES CALLED A HODGEPODGE Smoke a joint in Alabama or Oregon, and you can permanently lose the right to adopt a child. Smoke one in Oklahoma, and you’re ineligible ever to be a foster parent. Light up in Utah, and get a lifelong eviction [...]
Granny faces eviction for conviction of using marijuana
Friday, July 6th, 2007The Shields Gazette, UK 04 Jul 2007 CANNABIS GRAN IN COURT AGAIN CANNABIS gran Patricia Tabram is due in court again this week, where she could face eviction from her home. The 68-year-old, of East Lea, Humshaugh, near Hexham, Northumberland, was found guilty of growing and using the Class-C drug in March. She insists she [...]
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