Archive for August, 2007
Next Entries »Attempts to legalize medical marijuana in California under attack by Feds
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Auburn Journal, CA 31 Jul 2007 Thomas Elias MEDIPOT HARASSMENT LETS ILLICIT USE THRIVE There’s something almost idiotic about the obviously confused and misguided way in which federal authorities are trying to enforce anti-marijuana laws in California today. Nothing better illustrates this than the headlines that appeared together in newspapers this spring and summer about [...]
Conroy battles Canada’s marijuana prohibition laws
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Vancouver Sun, BC 31 Jul 2007 Neal Hall DRUGS AND THE POLICE Pot Possession In The ’60s Was A Serious Offence. A Baggie Would Get You Jail Time In 1967, John Conroy was a clean-cut University of B.C. student and a member of the varsity swim team. It wasn’t until after he graduated that he [...]
Police destroy a sick man’s medicinal plants, Health Canada apologizes
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Drayton Valley Western Review, AB 31 Jul 2007 Roszan Holmen EVANSBURG MAN PLANS TO SUE POLICE A man from Evansburg is suing the RCMP for seizing marijuana plants he says he was growing for medicinal purposes. Two years ago, Steve Chorney received a licence under the federal medical-marijuana program to grow a limited number of [...]
Education not prohibition
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Ottawa Citizen, ON 30 Jul 2007 CANNABIS HEALTH RISKS CALL FOR EDUCATION, NOT PROHIBITION Re: Marijuana’s scary science, July 26. Columnist Margret Kopala’s claims that cannabis use is a causal factor in mental illness are far from scientifically established. At best, an observable association between cannabis use and mental illness has been established in a [...]
Police label minister a drug-dealer for using cannabis in services
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Contra Costa Times, CA 28 Jul 2007 Andrew Glazer MINISTER CALLS POT A SACRAMENT Clergyman Based in Hollywood Says Marijuana ‘Is the Tree of Life Mentioned in the Bible’ LOS ANGELES — A minister with mail order credentials who faces drug charges for distributing marijuana through his Hollywood church argued unsuccessfully this week that federal [...]
Possible dangers of cannabis does not justify elaborate and expensive anti-drug regime
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007Chronicle Herald, NS 30 Jul 2007 Dan Leger REFORM POT LAWS – DO IT FOR 1.5 MILLION CANADIANS IT’S TIME to admit that one of the biggest “drug problems” in this country is the obsolete legal framework that criminalizes, stigmatizes and ultimately fails to regulate marijuana use. This spring, a United Nations agency ranked Canadians [...]
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