Archive for July, 2007
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Sunday, July 15th, 2007Edmonton Sun, AB 14 Jul 2007 PROSECUTORS ACT TO CHALLENGE POT RULING TORONTO -( CP ) – Prosecutors say they plan to launch a speedy appeal of a Toronto judge’s ruling that Canada’s marijuana possession laws are unconstitutional. CBC News reports the judge made the ruling in dismissing charges against a 29-year-old Toronto man charged [...]
Alameda County – 0 Americans for Safe Access – 22,000
Sunday, July 15th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA 14 Jul 2007 Henry K. Lee MEDICAL MARIJUANA ELECTION MAY HEAD TO REVOTE Judge Says County Allowed Ballot Data To Be Destroyed An Alameda County judge said Friday she may void election results for a failed 2004 Berkeley medical marijuana measure and order it returned to the ballot because county election [...]
DEA uses techniques on medical marijuana normally reserved for crack houses and meth labs
Sunday, July 15th, 2007San Gabriel Valley Tribune, CA 14 Jul 2007 Dan Abendschein POT DISPENSARIES AT RISK OF CLOSURE County medical marijuana dispensaries are at risk of being shut down since landlords received a letter from a federal agency telling them they could lose their property or face up to 20 years in prison. “Federal law allows for [...]
Probable new election on Measure R gives hope to medicinal patients
Sunday, July 15th, 2007Contra Costa Times, CA 14 Jul 2007 Ian Hoffman ALAMEDA COUNTY BUNGLED 2004 E-VOTING, JUDGE SAYS Ruling May Force An Election Do-Over Because Officials Wouldn’t Reveal Key Materials For A Recount Faced with accusations of lying and destroying public records, Alameda County officials instead protested to a state judge Friday that they were victims of [...]
Hockey Night in Canada is not amused
Sunday, July 15th, 2007The Calgary Sun, AB 14 Jul 2007 PRINCE OF POT’S EVENT UP IN SMOKE VANCOUVER — Canada’s so-called Prince of Pot has received a legal notice from the CBC telling him to stop promoting a hockey game screening event as “Hockey Night in Vansterdam.” Marc Emery had purchased a 50-in. plasma-screen TV and decided to [...]
Your emails and phone calls are critically needed right now
Saturday, July 14th, 2007StopTheDrugWar.org 11 Jul, 2007 ACTION ALERT: Hinchey Medical Marijuana Amendment 2007 A critical vote is coming up in the US Congress; this could be the year Americans get Medical Marijuana protection from Federal DEA raids! In June 2005, the US Supreme Court, unfortunately, upheld the power of the federal government to ban medical marijuana. This [...]
DEA attacks medical marijuana in California
Saturday, July 14th, 2007California NORML 12 Jul, 2007 D. Gieringer, Coordinator DEA Threatens Forfeiture of Los Angeles Compassion Clubs Threatening landlords with forfeiture will cancel almost all leases to Los Angeles area Compassionate Use clubs. This very aggressive and hurtful tactic could wipe out clubs in California! In an attack on access to medical marijuana in the nation’s [...]
Why is a health matter of this magnitude… in the hands of a dealer?
Saturday, July 14th, 2007COME OUT OF THE CANNABIS CLOSET CANADA! If you had or do have MS and the difference in your health with cannabis therapy or not, was like Alison Myrden’s health, what would you choose? If you, or anyone in your family has ever doubted the benefits of cannabis therapy, review these video clips. If you [...]
Letter to Editor: Zero tolerance drug laws do not distinguish between occasional use and chronic abuse
Saturday, July 14th, 2007Langley Times, BC 13 Jul 2007 DON’T FOLLOW THE AMERICAN APPROACH Editor: Please consider publishing the following letter in response to Tom Fletcher’s column ( The Times, July 4 ). For non-violent offenders with chronic substance abuse problems, community courts are a cost-effective alternative to incarceration. I just hope Canada’s community courts aren’t misused for [...]
The marijuana issue… acts as a poker chip in a larger political gambit
Saturday, July 14th, 2007North Bay Nugget, ON 13 Jul 2007 DECRIMINALIZATION UP IN SMOKE? Decriminalization of marijuana will not happen in our lifetime. Not at this rate. Liberal Senator Larry Campbell restated his preference this week to regulate and control pot just as alcohol production and distribution is governed. Then “tax the hell out of it,” Campbell urges, [...]
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