Archive for September, 2007
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2007The San Mateo County Times, CA 11 Sep 2007 Michael Manekin COUNTY MAY REGULATE POT SHOPS Some Officials Want to Protect Legal Use Two weeks after the DEA raided three San Mateo medical marijuana dispensaries that the county district attorney said violated state law, the County Counsel’s office is preparing guidelines for the distribution of [...]
Cannabis is part of our Canadian culture
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Winnipeg Free Press, MB 10 Sep 2007 EVERYONE’S DOING IT A new study that found Canadian teens smoke more pot than cigarettes didn’t seem to surprise anyone — not addiction experts, not parents, not police and not educators. The only people with their heads in the sand on the issue are political leaders, who seem [...]
420 people have applied for a state card in the first six months of 2007
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007The Ukiah Daily Journal, CA 9 Sep 2007 Ben Brown ZIP-TIES: MARIJUANA PATIENTS WAITING AND SEEING’ IF PROGRAM WORKS Medical marijuana patients are cautiously optimistic about Sheriff Tom Allman’s zip-tie program, said NorCal NORML Director Dane Wilkins. “We’re waiting and seeing,” Wilkins said. “We’re trying to encourage people to participate.” The zip-tie program is Allman’s [...]
Advocates disappointed with city’s response to collectives
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007The Daily Journal, CA 5 Sep 2007 Dana Yates OFFICIALS TO SHAPE POT POLICY Patients affected by the closure and recent raids of three San Mateo medical marijuana dispensaries have officials meeting to form a new countywide pot club policy, San Mateo City Manager Arne Croce told members of the City Council last night. The [...]
Bylaw is met with resistance from landowners and property managers
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Cowichan News Leader, BC 08 Sep 2007 Rebecca Aldous POT INSPECTION BYLAW TO BE SCALED BACK North Cowichan’s bylaw mandating bi-monthly property inspections for illegal drug operations may soon be dropped to once every six months. In a f4-3 vote — mayor Jon Lefebure and councillors Ruth Hartmann and Glen Ridgway against — council has [...]
UVIC Hempology Lecture Series: 1st Lecture- Cannabis B.C. (Before Christ)
Monday, September 10th, 2007September 10th 2007 1st Lecture- Cannabis B.C. (Before Christ) The history of the cannabis plant is as old as the story of human civilization. The plant has been used by our ancestors and other species as a source of protein for millions of years. About one million years ago the capacity to control fire was [...]
HEMPOLOGY 101 at University of Victoria
Saturday, September 8th, 2007HEMPOLOGY 101 AT UVIC with Ted Smith September 2007 12 Cannabis B.C. (Before Christ) 19 Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 26 Cannabis around the World October 2007 3 Hemp Products 10 Cannabis Research 17 Cannabis Chemistry 24 Families and the Drug War 31 Cannabis in the Media November 2007 7 – Break – 14 Medical [...]
American Cancer Society does not condone use of marijuana, does support more research
Saturday, September 8th, 2007Colorado Springs Independent, CO 07 Sep 2007 J. Adrian Stanley BAD MEDICINE? Local Man Tangles With American Cancer Society, Police in His Campaign to Promote Medical Marijuana American Cancer Society officials didn’t waste any time removing medical marijuana activist Matthew Schnur from their local event in August. First, Schnur says, a volunteer scolded him, calling [...]
Advocates sharply criticize participation of local authorities in federal investigation
Saturday, September 8th, 2007The Daily Review, CA 07 Sep 2007 Michael Manekin ADVOCATES URGE SAN MATEO TO ADOPT POT RESOLUTION Supporters Want City to Regulate Distribution of Medical Marijuana SAN MATEO — Medical marijuana patients and advocates, upset over the federal raid and shutdown of three medical cannabis dispensaries in downtown San Mateo last week, turned out en [...]
Advocate’s drive to legalize marijuana given new life
Saturday, September 8th, 2007Idaho Mountain Express, ID 05 Sep 2007 Terry Smith MARIJUANA ADVOCATE RESURRECTS LEGALIZATION CAMPAIGN Davidson Seeks Referendum Votes in Valley’s Municipalities If pro-marijuana advocate Ryan Davidson has his way, puffs of smoke in the Wood River Valley will be from more than just wildfires. Davidson, a Garden City man who formerly lived in Bellevue, is [...]
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