Archive for August, 2007
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007Victoria Times Colonist, BC August 03, 2007 Richard Watts Fibromyalgia sufferer testifies at pot trial A fibromyalgia sufferer, licensed to use marijuana as medicine, has worked hard to comply with regulations but can’t line up a legal, affordable supply, court heard yesterday. Andrea Lindsay testified circumstances, Health Canada red tape or cost always see her [...]
Bottom line – federal laws do not recognize any state laws making marijuana legal
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Mount Shasta Herald, CA 02 Aug 2007 Paul Boerger COUNTIES, CITIES SET THEIR OWN MARIJUANA LIMITS It hasn’t happened in Siskiyou County yet, but elected officials in other California counties and cities have passed ordinances governing how many marijuana plants and how much processed plant a legitimate user of medical marijuana may possess at one [...]
Another California dispensary forced to close its doors
Friday, August 3rd, 2007The Oakland Tribune, CA 03 Aug 2007 Rachel Cohen COUNCIL SECRETLY SNUFFS POT CLUB Medical Marijuana Dispensary Says It Will Shut Down This Month HAYWARD — More than a dozen patients from the Hayward Patients Resources Center pleaded with council members at the meeting to keep the city’s last medical marijuana dispensary open. But their [...]
Bill 420 – Identification program for patient’s growing medical marijuana
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Willits News, CA 03 Aug 2007 Mike A’Dair ALLMAN: ZIP-TIES ARE IN The zip-ties are in. So says Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman. The zip-ties are an effort by Allman to reduce the element of fraud in the medical marijuana industry. Allman said that the zip ties are available at the sheriff’s offices in Ukiah, [...]
Testimony continues in Victoria at the trial of Swallow and Beren
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC 02 Aug 2007 Richard Watts POT GROWER CAN’T MEET NEED Court Hears Federal Rules Force Medical Marijuana Users On To Black Market A Vancouver Island grower of organic marijuana is being inundated with pleas for pot from disease sufferers but Health Canada says he can supply only one person, court heard yesterday. [...]
Michelle Christensen testifies how cannabis improved the quality of her life at the Swallow and Beren trial
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Victoria Times Colonist, BC July 31, 2007 Richard Watts Court hears of how marijuana helped woman cope with illness A woman, diagnosed with HIV and hepatitis C, first turned to marijuana to deal with pain and nausea, court heard Tuesday. “I smoked this pipe. It was amazing. It was so amazing. I actually even went [...]
DEA go away
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Los Angeles City Beat, CA 02 Aug 2007 Ron Garmon RAID DIARIES BAD MEMORIES OF THE DEA’S WILD DAY IN L.A. ~Could someone, please, give these guys a copy of Proposition 215?~ Considered as paramilitary theater, the DEA raids last week on medical marijuana clinics across L.A. County were a nice touch of the old [...]
MORATORIUM APPROVED ON NEW POT DISPENSARIES
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Los Angeles Times, CA 02 Aug 2007 The Los Angeles City Council gave final approval Wednesday to a one-year moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries, a move designed to buy time for city officials seeking to draft new regulations covering marijuana facilities. The council voted 10-2 for the temporary ban, with Councilmen Bernard C. Parks [...]
Trapped in a legal battle between state and federal laws
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Press-Enterprise, CA 02 Aug 2007 Paige Austin and Sarah Gordon CORONA MARIJUANA-SHOP OWNER PLEADS NOT GUILTY The operator of a Corona marijuana dispensary pleaded not guilty Wednesday in federal court in Riverside to drug-trafficking charges that stem from a business he operated until it was raided three weeks ago. Ronald Bradley Naulls faces up to [...]
Executive steps forward to put a face to the medical marijuana issue
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Tri-Valley Herald, CA 01 Aug 2007 Meera Pal PLEASANTON TAKES LID OFF MEDICAL POT ISSUE City Commission to Examine Residents’ Needs Dressed in a suit and tie, Pleasanton resident Kirk Warren is the last person one would point to as a medical marijuana user. Warren, an executive for a Fortune 500 company, recently went public [...]
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