Archive for August, 2007
« Previous EntriesDrug control belongs in the domain of public health, not criminal justice
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Smithers Interior News, BC 29 Aug 2007 BOWERING IN FAVOUR OF LEGALIZING POT North’s Public Health Director Calls For Reform To Drug Laws, RCMP Remain Opposed The head of public health for the North wants to see radical reform in how Canada deals with psychoactive drugs. Dr. David Bowering told The Interior News last week [...]
City fails to secure rights of medical marijuana users
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Ledger Dispatch, CA 29 Aug 2007 Josh McCoy CITY POT REGS VIOLATE FEDERAL LAW, COUNCIL SAYS Five people attended and no one raised objections at a Jackson City Council meeting on Monday that doomed lingering ordinances in the city code that allowed for marijuana dispensaries and promised higher water rates for about 2,000 customers. Jackson [...]
Thousands of seriously ill patients benefit from cannabis
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Press & Sun-Bulletin, NY 29 Aug 2007 PRO & CON: MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN NEW YORK We asked our readers: Should the state legalize medical use of marijuana? Here are your opinions: Geoff Corey, Chenango Bridge Marijuana should most definitely be legalized for medical use. It has been proven in many studies that it can prolong [...]
Letter to Editor: Waste of resources
Thursday, August 30th, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC 28 Aug 2007 A MILLION JOINTS DON’T JUSTIFY RAIDS Re: “Pot raids extinguish a million joints,” Aug. 25. According to the article, it took the RCMP, municipal police and the Canadian Armed Forces four days to capture 10,000 pot plants — a million joints, they gleefully proclaim. I did the math and [...]
Bush fuels his political agenda with scare tactics
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007AlterNet, US Web August 29, 2007 By Scott Thill Pot Growers Are New Target in “War on Terror” Under Bush, terror has become a justification for any and every abuse of power. Last time we checked in on the bizarro nexus between cannabis and terrorism, it was none other than actor/director Tommy Chong who was [...]
They don’t call it weed for nothing
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007The Associated Press August 28, 2007 Prison-Yard Pot Plagues Japanese Lockup TOKYO — A Japanese prison is scrambling to eradicate marijuana plants that keep sprouting up on its exercise ground, officials said Tuesday. The marijuana plants started sprouting at Abashiri Prison on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido about a year ago, said prison official Takeshi [...]
Paraphernalia shops threatened by negative perceptions
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007San Gabriel Valley Tribune, CA 28 Aug 2007 Tania Chatila L.P. CITY STAFF HAZY ON EFFECTS OF SMOKE SHOPS LA PUENTE – Planning Department officials say they need more time to determine their stance on “smoke shops” in La Puente. Staff members are recommending the City Council vote today to extend an existing moratorium on [...]
Debate in Denver heats up
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Rocky Mountain News, CO 28 Aug 2007 Stuart Steers CITY COUNCIL PUTS POT ISSUE ON BALLOT Initiative Takes Some Heat Before Getting Approval Denver voters will have the final say on whether the city should change its marijuana laws, but that didn’t stop several City Council members from accusing pot activists of turning city elections [...]
Cannabis was a life saver, yet man faces prison for using
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Rocky Mountain News, CO 28 Aug 2007 Bill Scanlon DO-IT-YOURSELF MEDICINAL POT Ailing Man Could Get 12-Year Term in Possession Case BRIGHTON – Medical-marijuana advocates rallied Monday for a Thornton man who has AIDS and Hepatitis B but didn’t register with the state to grow the pot he says keeps him alive. Jack Branson, 39, [...]
Canada on the brink of decriminalizing – apparently not
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Toronto Star, ON 25 Aug 2007 Lynda Hurst IS IT OR ISN’T IT? THE POT PENDULUM SWINGS AGAIN Just As Canadians Are Embracing Pot As Never Before, the Government Plans a New War on Drugs. the Move Is Fitting, Given This Country’s Ambivalent Relationship With Weed Over the Decades In announcing an upcoming federal anti-drug [...]
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