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Saturday, July 28th, 2007Ladysmith Chronicle, BC 24 Jul 2007 Jason Youmans GROW-OP BYLAW GETS YEAR-LONG TRIAL A North Cowichan bylaw meant to put the kibosh on marijuana grow operations and drug laboratories in rental properties in the area will have a year of implementation before municipal staff take another look at its merits. The bylaw, which was implemented [...]
Marijuana ordinance is more of a symbolic statement than anything else
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, AR July 23, 2007 Tracie Dungan Eureka Springs, Arkansas — A pro-marijuana initiative approved by Eureka Springs voters in November has had no impact on how police handle arrests for misdemeanor possession, city officials say. Voters passed an ordinance directing police and prosecutors to make possession of less than an ounce of marijuana [...]
Six states this year considered legislation to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp
Monday, July 23rd, 2007New York Times, NY July 20, 2007 Monica Davey Crop Fungus Has North Dakota Longing for Hemp Osnabrock, N.D. — David C. Monson seems an improbable soul to find at the leading edge of a national movement to legalize growing hemp, a plant that shares a species name, a genus type, and, in many circles, [...]
What if these politicians had been caught toking up and given a permanent criminal record – where would they be now – not in parliament
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Washington Post Foreign Service July 21, 2007 Mary Jordan On Pot Question, Cabinet Doesn’t Blow Smoke LONDON, July 20 — They all inhaled. Eight members of Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s cabinet admitted this week that they had smoked marijuana, in an unusual cascade of confessions that led to newspaper headlines such as “Parliament has gone [...]
93 percent of Canadians do not believe possesion of cannabis should warrant a criminal record
Monday, July 23rd, 2007The Fort Saskatchewan Record, CN AB 20 Jul 2007 Andrew Thomson MARIJUANA LAWS BEYOND RIDICULOUS Fairly Unbalanced In 2003 I wrote a column arguing in favour of legalizing marijuana. Since I may never have another chance to do this, I’m writing now to tell you I was wrong. So wrong in fact I’m ashamed to [...]
Unfortunate no win situation for neighbours
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Ottawa Sun, ON 22 Jul 2007 Kenneth Jackson MEDICINAL POT BATTLE HITS HOME Neighbour Raises Stink Over Rowhouse Grow Op Mom’s a certified biologist working at a pharmaceutical company. Pop’s a stay-at-home dad. They have three beautiful boys, aged 7, 2 and 10 months. Together they live a normal, happy life. Everything is on the [...]
Former lawyer, Riemer, is one of the first people in Canada with legal exemption to smoke and grow
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Barry’s Bay This Week, ON 18 Jul 2007 Kate Weldon MARIJUANA MAVERICK SAYS IT’S ABOUT RIGHTS ‘I Love My Country. It’s Getting Less And Less Free And It’s Scary,’ Says Rick Reimer With another day in the spotlight over, Rick Reimer says he’s not about to lie down. Two weeks ago a civil suit, launched [...]
Letter to Editor: “Just Say No” to the American Inquisition
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Mirror, CN, QU 19 Jul 2007 OH CANNABA PART 2 [Re: "Oh Cannaba!" by Raf Katigbak, Riff-Raff, July 12] Writing under the pen name Janey Canuck in the early 1900s, an Edmonton woman, by the name of Emily Murphy, first warned Canadians about the dread reefer and its association with dark-skinned minorities. The sensationalist yellow [...]
No connection between stronger cannabis and mental illness
Monday, July 23rd, 2007Independent, UK 21 Jul 2007 Jeremy Laurance DEBUNKED: POLITICIANS’ EXCUSE THAT CANNABIS HAS BECOME STRONGER In a week in which Gordon Brown signaled a toughening of the law on cannabis and Labour MPs queued up to confess to smoking dope in their youth – a dozen cabinet ministers at the last count – there has [...]
North Dakota challenging government for farmer’s right to grow hemp
Monday, July 23rd, 2007New York Times, NY 21 Jul 2007 Monica Davey SOBER NORTH DAKOTANS HOPE TO LEGALIZE HEMP OSNABROCK, N.D. – David C. Monson seems an improbable soul to find at the leading edge of a national movement to legalize growing hemp, a plant that shares a species name, a genus type and, in many circles, a [...]
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