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Monday, August 13th, 2007Marin Independent Journal, CA 12 Aug 2007 Gary Klien HOMEGROWN: HOW DO COPS PUT A VALUE ON THE BUSTS? When San Rafael police raided an indoor pot farm last month, they seized 600 plants and estimated their street value at $800,000. Yet when the Marin County Major Crimes Task Force raided an indoor farm in [...]
Prohibitionism is a religion more than a policy
Monday, August 13th, 2007The Orange County Register, CA 12 Aug 2007 Alan Bock, Sr. TREATMENT INTERRUPTED Orange County Agrees to Medical-Marijuana ID Cards Just As the DEA Cracks Down on Dispensaries in L.A.: Every Positive Step Seems to Be Met With a Step Backward Eleven years after California voters, by passing Proposition 215, created exceptions to the marijuana [...]
Clean-up cost will be added to Landlord’s tax bills
Monday, August 13th, 2007Hamilton Spectator, ON 08 Aug 2007 Nicole MacIntyre CITY CAN PENALIZE GROW-OP LANDLORDS The city is upping its power to clean up — or even tear down — marijuana grow operations. A new bylaw, approved by the planning and economic development committee yesterday, gives the city the right to clean up a grow-op at the [...]
Weed on wheels
Monday, August 13th, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC 11 Aug 2007 Linda Nguyen POTMOBILE BUSTED IN FERRY LINEUP WEST VANCOUVER — It was a business venture worthy of famed ’70s potheads Cheech and Chong: Police officers called to investigate a possible drunk driver discovered $60,000 worth of marijuana plants being grown inside a car. The 140 plants — in two [...]
International Hempology 101 Society AGM
Friday, August 10th, 2007Annual General Meeting Thursday, August 16th at 6:30 pm At the store on 826 Johnson Street See you there!
Medical Marijuana is here to stay
Friday, August 10th, 2007Salem-News, OR Aug 09, 2007 Dr. Phil Leveque Medical Marijuana: Misinformed Critics (MOLALLA,, Ore.) – It is professionally and personally distressing to read and to be subjected, along with my medical marijuana patients, to extreme vituperation, especially that of newspaper reporters such as Dennis Roler of the Grants Pass, Oregon Daily Courier. Of course, he [...]
UK Hemp factory to increase crop
Friday, August 10th, 2007East Anglian Daily Times, UK 8 Aug 2007 David Green HUGE HEMP FACTORY SET FOR HALESWORTH THE WORLD’S biggest factory for processing hemp – claimed to be the “green” building material of the future – is being planned for a Suffolk town at a cost of UKP3.6 million. When running at full capacity the plant [...]
Emery looks to Ron Paul for amnesty
Friday, August 10th, 2007Seattle Weekly, WA 08 Aug 2007 Rick Anderson WHY IS THIS CANADIAN POT DEALER CAMPAIGNING FOR RON PAUL? He’s Looking for a Pardon. Marc Emery agrees his campaign-organizing effort for some 2008 U.S. presidential candidates is a bit unorthodox. He’s Canadian, his political base of operations is the B.C. Marijuana Party in Vancouver, and he [...]
Medical marijuana dispensaries not a priority says police
Friday, August 10th, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC August 10, 2007 Richard Watts Pot not a priority, deputy chief testifies Victoria’s No. 2 cop testified in B.C. Supreme Court yesterday that neither the Vancouver Island Compassion Society nor its distribution of medical marijuana has ever been the subject of a criminal investigation. Deputy Chief Bill Naughton said the society’s Cormorant [...]
Swallow and Beren trial continues with Senator Nolin on the stand
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC 09 Aug 2007 Richard Watts TRIAL TO HEAR TESTIMONY FROM SENATOR WHO BACKED MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION A Canadian senator who has called for the legalization of marijuana took the stand yesterday in the trial arising from a raid on the Vancouver Island Compassion Society’s grow operation. Pierre Claude Nolin chaired the Senate Special [...]
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