Archive for September, 2007
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007Albuquerque Tribune, NM 04 Sep 2007 Sue Vorenberg MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENTS FACE DIFFICULT TASK OF FINDING DRUG At the center of the labyrinth of issues around medical marijuana is a snarled garden of Catch-22. Certified patients in New Mexico can use it – but they have no way to legally get it. If they have [...]
Almost 6,000 signatures back proposal
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Washington Times, DC 03 Sep 2007 Valerie Richardson POT TOUTED TO CALM DENVER RALLIES DENVER — Activists here are moving to liberalize the city’s marijuana-possession laws in time for next year’s Democratic National Convention. The Denver City Council voted 13-0 last week to place a measure on the Nov. 6 ballot that would make prosecuting [...]
Jury instructed that any references to “medical” anything were irrelevant
Thursday, September 6th, 2007CounterPunch, US Web 01 Sep 2007 Fred Gardner THE TRIAL OF MOLLIE FRY, MD Federal Jury Convicts Pro-Cannabis Doctor After a 10-day trial, it took a federal jury in Sacramento less than three hours August 16 to find Marion “Mollie” Fry, MD, and her husband, attorney Dale Schafer, guilty of conspiracy to grow and distribute [...]
Proposition 215 provides scant guidelines for law enforcement
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Ledger Dispatch, CA 31 Aug 2007 Raheem Hosseini DEALING A HARSH BLOW Because of a string of coverage on the medicinal cannabis issue early in my tenure here at the Ledger Dispatch, I won the half-joking reputation among at least one of my colleagues as the resident pothead. The truth, if it matters, is that [...]
Misguided policy and wasted resources
Thursday, September 6th, 2007The New Mexican, NM 31 Aug 2007 Steve Terrell MEDICAL MARIJUANA: BATTLE BREWING OVER STATE POT LAW Gov. Bill Richardson lashed out at the Bush administration on Thursday over this week’s arrest of a wheelchair-bound Eddy County man who was certified by the state Health Department to possess and smoke marijuana for medical reasons. The [...]
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