Archive for August, 2007
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007The Ukiah Daily Journal, CA 08 Aug 2007 Ben Brown MEDICAL POT: 25 PLANTS After eight months of discussion in the Criminal Justice Committee and nearly three hours of public comment from community members, including attorneys, doctors and medical marijuana advocates, the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors voted to uphold county medical marijuana plant limits [...]
Trio accuses the Canadian government of harassing church members
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Toronto Star, ON 08 Aug 2007 Tracey Tyler CHURCH ARGUES MARIJUANA A SACRAMENT Parishioners Plan Charter Challenge, Say Current Policy Infringes On Their Religious Rights If some religions sip wine at the altar, others should be allowed to smoke pot. At least according to Rev. Edwin Pearson and Rev. Michel Ethier, two ordained ministers behind [...]
Politics and pot don’t play well together
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Huffington Post, US 07 Aug 2007 Paul Armentano and Mitch Earleywine INTERPRETING HAZY WARNINGS ABOUT POT AND MENTAL ILLNESS Smoking pot won’t make you crazy, but trying to find the truth behind the recent rash of headlines regarding a supposed link between cannabis and mental illness might. According to the Associated Press and other news [...]
McGowen risks arrest to help patients
Thursday, August 9th, 2007The Bakersfield Californian, CA 06 Aug 2007 James Burger LOCAL MARIJUANA SHOP REOPENS One of Bakersfield’s medical marijuana dispensaries has reopened, two weeks after it locked its doors in the wake of federal pot raids. Jim McGowen has re-opened American Caregivers Collective on Gilmore Avenue just off Buck Owens Boulevard in Bakersfield. He is risking [...]
Letter to Editor: DEA exaggerates profits of dispensaries
Thursday, August 9th, 2007The Pasadena Star-News, CA 07 Aug 2007 Dale Gieringer MEDICAL POT STORES Your article, “Medical marijuana store’s profits questioned,” greatly exaggerates the profits of medical marijuana dispensaries. The DEA’s figures reflect gross revenues, not net profits after costs. The bulk of dispensaries’ revenues goes to cover payroll, product and rent. Compassionate Caregivers employed over 200 [...]
Marijuana Madness
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Business Week, US 06 Aug 2007 Christopher Palmeri “HANDS UP, AND BACK AWAY FROM THE BROWNIES” Raids and Arrests Are Up, but So Are the Number of Dispensaries–and More States Are Coming Aboard. Activists Say Regulation Could Help When California voters approved the nation’s first medical-marijuana law in 1996, the idea was to help people [...]
Growers face up to 3-years in prison
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Red Bluff Daily News, CA 03 Aug 2007 JURY REJECTS MEDICAL MARIJUANA DEFENSE Corning Couple, Chico Man Guilty RED BLUFF – Three marijuana gardeners, including a Corning couple, were convicted of cultivation and possession of marijuana for sale by a Tehama County jury this week. The jury found Gerald Malley, 57, of Corning, and his [...]
Feds wage an ever more aggressive campaign in California
Thursday, August 9th, 2007LA Weekly, CA 03 Aug 2007 Celeste Fremon DEA’S SCARLET LETTER Nervous L.A. Landlords and Dispensaries Get Caught in the Medical-Pot Wars THE DEA AND THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES are at war over medical marijuana. On one side of the fight is the Drug Enforcement Administration, which seems to be doing all within its [...]
Federal government hasn’t caught up with the future of America
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Contra Costa Times, CA 03 Aug 2007 Rick Orlov L.A. WANTS LOCAL CONTROL OF POT CLINICS, END TO DEA RAIDS LOS ANGELES — Pitting itself against the U.S. government, the Los Angeles City Council approved plans Wednesday to limit new medical-marijuana dispensaries, regulate existing ones and urge a moratorium on recent clinic raids by federal [...]
Hemp is recognized as distinct from marijuana
Thursday, August 9th, 2007The California Aggie, CA Edu 06 Aug 2007 Lizeth Cazares YOLO COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS SUPPORTS HEMP BILL Bill Would Allow Hemp Farming In Yolo County The Yolo County Board of Supervisors agreed unanimously to support Assembly Bill 684 Tuesday. If passed, AB 684 would allow for the industrial farming of hemp in four California [...]
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