Archive for November, 2007
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Friday, November 9th, 2007For Immediate Release Tues Nov 6, 2007 Ted Smith Victoria, B.C.: It is a sad time for the Victoria cannabis community. The world’s largest weekly pot rally is coming to an end. After gathering every single Wednesday evening for over 12 years, Hempology 101 is having its last weekly public meeting on Nov 7, 2007. [...]
Hempology weekly pot rally cancelled indefinitely
Friday, November 9th, 2007Victoria Times Colonist, BC November 08, 2007 Judith Lavoie, Rowdy drunks put end to weekly smoke-ins Young, drunken rowdies, disrupting peaceful pot smokers, have killed the Victoria tradition of weekly marijuana rallies. The pungent smell of pot, drifting over Ted Smith’s Wednesday smoke-ins, has been part of Victoria culture for 12 years. But yesterday, the [...]
Don’t Condemn All Grow Houses: Mould Expert
Thursday, November 8th, 2007The Intelligencer 03 Nov 2007 Jeremy Ashley Don’t Condemn All Grow Houses: Mould Expert It can be the ultimate condemnation for a home. Long after drug officers have carted away dozens of planters, disassembled specialized hydroponic lighting systems and hauled sophisticated irrigation systems out of a house once used as a cultivation site for marijuana, [...]
Pot-smoking teens more socially driven suggests study
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC November 06, 2007 Pot-smoking teens function better A study of more than 5,000 youngsters in Switzerland has found those who smoked marijuana do as well or better in some areas as those who don’t, researchers said Monday. But the same was not true for those who used both tobacco and marijuana, who [...]
Sticky workplace issue of employee use of medicinal marijuana
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007The Associated Press November 6, 2007 By PAUL ELIAS Calif. Court Considers Marijuana Use SAN FRANCISCO — When Gary Ross was ordered to take a drug test at his new job, the recently hired computer tech had no doubt the results would come back positive for marijuana. But along with his urine sample, Ross submitted [...]
23 felony counts each brother faces could result in a max prison sentence of 40 years
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA 05 Nov 2007 Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross (Relevant part of a longer column) FEDS GO AFTER WILDLY SUCCESSFUL MEDICAL POT SELLERS “They’re just a couple of nice kids from Berkeley who wound up being the victims of their own success.” That’s how lawyer and longtime family friend Harold Rosenthal summed up [...]
It’s expensive to buy from the government and it is not that great
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Daily Gleaner, NK 01 Nov 2007 Michael Staples NORTHSIDE MAN WANTS MEDICAL-POT REGULATIONS RELAXED Rocky Paul has been using medical marijuana to control pain and other discomforts for the last seven years. The St. Mary’s First Nation resident would like to see the rules eased up a bit so that those who need the drug [...]
Patient suffering from the ravages of systemic lupus saga ends in tragedy
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007The Billings Gazette, MT 03 Nov 2007 Tom Daubert A TRAGIC CASUALTY IN FEDERAL WAR ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA The nation’s Drug Enforcement Administration agents can sleep a little easier tonight. They now have one less medical-marijuana patient to worry about policing. That’s because Montana’s leading medical marijuana patient-activist took her own life two weeks ago, [...]
Cases in federal court are extremely difficult to defend
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007The Modesto Bee, CA 01 Nov 2007 Susan Herendeen POT CLINIC TRIAL RESET FOR APRIL Federal Bar on State Law to Hinder Defense Two Modesto men who ran a medical marijuana clinic on McHenry Avenue will have a difficult time mounting a defense against federal drug charges if they cannot talk about the pain relief [...]
Pot and poppies, basically lettuce to professor Facchini
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Calgary Herald, AB 5 Nov 2007 Sean Myers PROFESSOR’S GRANT GOES TO ‘POT’ A city poppy expert is teaming up with a medicinal marijuana producer in Saskatchewan to develop new health applications for the notorious plants. University of Calgary biology professor Peter Facchini has received a three-year, $650,000 federal grant to work with plants best [...]
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