Archive for September, 2007
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Friday, September 28th, 2007NOW Magazine, ON 27 Sep 2007 Matt Mernagh TIME FOR CITY TO GROW OP City’s Crackdown On Grow Ops Doesn’t Protect Medical Pot Growers After three hours punching each other silly over issues like amending the fireworks bylaw, the licensing and standards committee is finally ready to hear my deputation September 11. I’m here on [...]
Be kind to cannabis says activist
Friday, September 28th, 2007The Appalachian, NC Edu 27 Sep 2007 Allison Casey ‘HIGH TIMES’ FEATURES STUDENT’S EFFORTS TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA According to the Appalachian State University annual crime report, there were 42 on-campus arrests and 144 judicial referrals for drug violations in 2006. Josh C. Kleinstreuer, a senior electronic media broadcasting major, is working to change marijuana policies. [...]
Another California city feels the wrath of the DEA
Friday, September 28th, 2007The Santa Barbara Independent, CA 27 Sep 2007 FEDS TARGET S.B. MEDICAL MARIJUANA SHOPS After enjoying years of relatively hassle-free business, Santa Barbara’s medical marijuana scene is feeling the heat this week, with a distinctly ganja-scented cloud of uncertainty hanging over its future in the wake of a federal Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) [...]
Another state puts pressure on misguided federal policy
Friday, September 28th, 2007Badger Herald, U of WI 25 Sep 2007 A HIGHER TOLERANCE Reps. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, and Frank Boyle, D-Superior, recently introduced legislation that would legalize medicinal marijuana in Wisconsin. We urge the state to lift its ban and pass the bill. Messrs. Boyle and Pocan introduced similar legislation in 2001. It failed then and two [...]
Thousands of patients will suffer after DEA raids another dispensary
Friday, September 28th, 2007Sacramento Bee, CA 27 Sep 2007 Niesha Lofing MEDICAL POT DISPENSARY RAIDED BY DEA AGENTS Federal authorities raided a medical marijuana dispensary Wednesday in Sacramento as employees, customers and medical marijuana advocates protested out front. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration served a federal search warrant around 9 a.m. at River City Patient Center at 1512 [...]
Cannabis a God-given herb
Friday, September 28th, 2007Mondovi Herald-News, WI 27 Sep 2007 MEDICAL MARIJUANA BILL NAMED FOR MONDOVI RESIDENT A new medical marijuana bill named for Mondovi resident Jacki Rickert, a longtime Wisconsin medical cannabis patient-activist, will be introduced in the coming weeks. In a press conference Tuesday, Sept. 18, in the Senate Parlor at the State Capitol in Madison, State [...]
Cannabis and post traumatic stress
Friday, September 28th, 2007Esquire, US 01 Oct 2007 Colby Buzzell MEDICAL POT AND THE IRAQ VETERAN We’re Back From the War. We Can’t Sleep. We’re Getting Divorced. If Marijuana Is Good for Post-Traumatic Stress, Who Are We to Deny Its Medicinal Properties? Can medical marijuana help returning soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan war deal with post-traumatic stress [...]
Morals vs. man’s interests
Friday, September 28th, 2007The Collegian, U of Tulsa, OK 25 Sep 2007 Kyle Klavetter POT LACKS PURPOSE It would be nice to hear the government admit that it over-regulates, that it needs to mellow out and give citizens a little more control over their own lives. But must the first steps on the road to recovering freedoms from [...]
DEA storms the wrong house, traumatizes innocent couple
Friday, September 28th, 2007The Press Democrat, CA 25 Sep 2007 Lori A. Carter SUIT OVER DRUG RAID Damages Sought Against DEA Agents, Petaluma Officer In Mistaken ID Case A North Bay couple whose home was raided by drug agents has filed a federal lawsuit against the officers, claiming they violated their civil and constitutional rights in a slipshod [...]
UVSS HEMPOLOGY 101 CLUB – LECTURE SERIES 2007/08
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Sept. 26/07 LESSON #3 : CANNABIS AROUND THE WORLD Every country has a different cannabis culture, with citizens growing in at least 172 countries. In countries like Canada the use of the herb and enforcement of the law can vary between areas in the same province. With improvements in indoor growing techniques and seeds available [...]
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