Archive for July, 2007
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, CA 21 Jul 2007 ARREST CASTS SHADOW OVER FUTURE DISPENSARIES Local Residents Who Use Medicinal Marijuana Fear The Indictment Of The Morro Bay Shop’S Ex-Owner Could Discourage Plans For Future Dispensaries Local residents who use marijuana medicinally have no place to legally purchase pot in the county, and some fear [...]
Crushing local compassionate collectives
Friday, July 20th, 2007Los Angeles City Beat, CA 19 Jul 2007 Ron Garmon Feds Use Asset-Forfeiture Laws to Spell Evictions for Medical-Pot Providers White House drug czar John P. Walters isn’t a figure to command awe, so rhetoric had some considerable slack to transcend. Out in Redding last Thursday, July 12, to bestow federal benediction on a National [...]
Smells more like political agenda
Friday, July 20th, 2007The Daily Herald-Tribune, AB 18 Jul 2007 Noor Javed POT LAWS CAUSING COURT BACKLOG Ottawa needs to fix long-standing loopholes and inconsistencies in Canada’s marijuana laws, to help the justice system contend with a surge of court cases resulting from the Conservative government’s new zeal for enforcement, legal experts say. With witnesses reporting a dramatic [...]
Criminalization of cannabis a destructive and costly path
Friday, July 20th, 2007Times Colonist, BC July 20, 2007 The wrong course on marijuana Treating users as criminals has been costly, damaged lives and accomplished nothing It’s disheartening to see Canada sliding backwards on drugs, embracing policies that have been proven to do considerable damage while accomplishing nothing. Policies like treating marijuana possession as a criminal offence. The [...]
Chavez has high hopes for medical marijuana
Friday, July 20th, 2007Los Angeles Times, CA 19 Jul 2007 Dana Parsons A CHARTER MEMBER OF O.C.’S CANNABIS CLUB Marvin Chavez Used Marijuana for Pain Relief and Ended Up in Prison. Now He Hopes to Set Up a New Medical Pot Group. I hadn’t talked to Marvin Chavez since an Orange County jury convicted him in 1998 of [...]
The Fed’s vs. the sick and dying
Friday, July 20th, 2007Press-Enterprise, CA 19 Jul 2007 David Olson FEDS DIGGING DEEP IN POT-DISPENSARY BLITZ Tuesday’s raid on a marijuana dispensary in Corona is part of broader law-enforcement efforts to shut down medical-pot outlets throughout Southern California. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration earlier this month threatened to seize the property of about 150 Los Angeles County landlords [...]
Police spin lies and the terminally ill suffer
Friday, July 20th, 2007The Orange County Register, CA 19 Jul 2007 Sean Emery and Vik Jolly CITY ROLLS OUT LAWS TO MAKE MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES ILLEGAL San Juan Capistrano Adopts an Ordinance to Prevent Opening Distribution Centers and Introduces a Licensing Restriction. SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — The City Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted an interim urgency ordinance restricting the [...]
Caregivers and a doctor face up to 40 years in prison for helping sick patients
Friday, July 20th, 2007The Press Democrat, CA 19 Jul 2007 OPERATOR OF UKIAH POT DISPENSARY INDICTED The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced a set of indictments Tuesday alleging that operators of nearly a dozen medical marijuana dispensaries, including one in Ukiah, profiteered from the illegal distribution of pot. Among those accused are the operators of Compassionate Caregivers, a [...]
Amendment could kill funding for federal attacks on medical marijuana
Friday, July 20th, 2007Los Angeles Times, CA 19 Jul 2007 NEW CHALLENGES FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA The Drug Enforcement Administration Goes After Landlords Who Rent to Dispensaries. THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT Administration has notified more than 150 Los Angeles property owners that their fortunes and their sacred honor are forfeit to the state. What crime must a landlady commit to [...]
Vancouver pot-heads lulled into a false sense of security
Friday, July 20th, 2007Vancouver Sun, BC 19 Jul 2007 Chad Skelton CITY POLICE GETTING TOUGHER WITH POT SMOKERS Number Charged With Simple Possession Doubles In Five Years The number of people charged with simple possession of marijuana in the City of Vancouver has doubled over just the past five years — suggesting the city’s reputation for leniency on [...]
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