Archive for August, 2007
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Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Guelph Mercury, ON 01 Aug 2007 Joseph Hall CRIMINALIZATION FALLS SHORT: RESEARCH A British study claiming pot smokers have a 40 per cent higher risk of developing psychotic illnesses does not prove tougher Canadian drug laws are needed, experts in this country say. Canadian researchers say that stiffer penalties here have traditionally failed to curb [...]
DEA’s next tactic – freezes bank account, money saved to pay state sales taxes
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007The Oakland Tribune, CA 01 Aug 2007 Paul T. Rosynsky FEDS, LAPD FREEZE BERKELEY POT CLUB’S ASSETS Council Members Call for New Laws to Protect Marijuana Businesses BERKELEY — A city-sanctioned medical marijuana dispensary had its assets frozen this week, prompting some city council members to call for new city laws protecting such businesses. The [...]
Political agendas vs what the people want
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Tallahassee Democrat, FL 31 Jul 2007 Gerald Ensley MARIJUANA LAWS HAVE TO CHANGE The insanity continues. Last week, law-enforcement officials busted two local marijuana-growing operations. They arrested two men growing more than 80 plants in the Apalachicola National Forest and one man growing more than 730 in Gadsden County. The cops were just doing their [...]
Dispensary raided, plants seized, no arrests made
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA 01 Aug 2007 Carolyn Jones AUTHORITIES SEIZE ASSETS OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA CLUB The Los Angeles Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency seized the assets of a Berkeley marijuana club Tuesday, following a raid of its sister club in Los Angeles. The Berkeley Patients Group, one of three medical marijuana [...]
Increase in cannabis use and psychosis correlation doesn’t add up
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Huffington Post, US 30 Jul 2007 Maia Szalavitz REEFER INANITY: NEVER TRUST THE MEDIA ON POT Watching the media cover marijuana is fascinating, offering deep insight into conventional wisdom, bias and failure to properly place science in context. The coverage of a new study claiming that marijuana increases the risk of later psychotic illnesses like [...]
Founder of church that uses cannabis as sacrament to face trial
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007The Maui News, HI 31 Jul 2007 Lila Fujimoto JUDGE DENIES REQUEST TO DISMISS DRUG CHARGES WAILUKU – Saying a marijuana-use requirement in the Religion of Jesus Church appeared to have resulted from successful state prosecution rather than religious belief, a judge has denied a request to dismiss drug charges against the church’s founder. James [...]
Conservatives most likely to take “as hard a line as possible” in response to Ontario Court’s recent decision
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Maclean’s Magazine, Canada 31 Jul 2007 Philippe Gohier SORRY TO HARSH YOUR BUZZ It sounded like a cool idea at the time, but were we ever really going to decriminalize marijuana? Is pot legal? The answer to that seems as cloudy as, well, you know. Responding to the complaint of a Toronto man charged with [...]
Serving time for cannabis can cost you more than your right to vote
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007AlterNet 31 Jul 2007 Silja J. A. Talvi GETTING BUSTED FOR POT CAN COST YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE When a person is sent to prison for the first time on a drug-related felony charge, there is little chance that he or she will be told about the “collateral consequences” of their sentence. The severity of [...]
Judge to decide if Emery will be extradited to the US
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Regina Leader-Post, SN 30 Jul 2007 Kenyon Wallace ‘PRINCE OF POT’ SURPRISED DEA TOOK SO LONG TO MAKE HIM A TARGET SASKATOON — The “Prince of pot” says he’s surprised it took the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) so long to investigate his Internet business that sold hundreds of thousands of marijuana seeds [...]
Cannabis is not the danger
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007The Herald, UK 31 Jul 2007 CANNABIS: A MENACE OR MEDICAL MARVEL? Cannabis has been in use for about 10,000 years. It is claimed that in that time, there has never been a single overdose and some say it is safer than aspirin. So why has it not been decriminalised, as in Holland and Russia? [...]
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