Archive for January, 2008
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Monday, January 7th, 2008Globe and Mail, Canada 3 Jan 2008 Noreen Shanahan GERALD LE DAIN, 83: JURIST His Landmark Commission on Drugs Urged Legalizing Marijuana in 1973 Already a Respected Legal Scholar, He Became an Improbable Counterculture Icon at the Height of the Hippy Era by Recommending Leniency and the Decriminalization of Recreational Drugs TORONTO — Gerald Le [...]
Doctor’s hydroponic growing operation raided
Monday, January 7th, 2008The Mississippi Press, MS 1 Jan 2008 Veto F. Role ER DOCTOR, HUSBAND POST BONDS ON MARIJUANA CHARGES PASCAGOULA — A Gulfport emergency-room doctor and her common-law husband have bonded out of the Adult Detention Center after agents with the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County arrested the [redacted] pair on their return from a [...]
Human-rights legislation forbids discrimination on the basis of disability
Monday, January 7th, 2008Edmonton Sun, AB 03 Jan 2008 Glenn Kauth JOB DRUG-TESTING DEBATE NOT OVER A court ruling against a fired marijuana user won’t stop the province’s human rights commission seeking changes to workplace drug-testing policies, a lawyer on the case said yesterday. “I think automatic termination is troubling because you’re denying someone employment,” said Arman Chak, [...]
Pro-hemp legislation shows no signs of going anywhere
Monday, January 7th, 2008Minot Daily News, ND 01 Jan 2008 N.D. DELEGATION WON’T TAKE UP HEMP ISSUE The three members of North Dakota’s congressional delegation see little hope in Congress for state farmers who want to grow industrial hemp. Members of the state’s all-Democratic delegation — Sens. Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad and Rep. Earl Pomeroy — say [...]
Occasional marijuana smokers should not be treated as disabled
Monday, January 7th, 2008Edmonton Sun, AB 01 Jan 2008 Glenn Kauth POT USERS SLAMMED IN RULING Employer Justified In Firing Worker Over Positive Drug-Test Result Alberta’s top court has dealt a blow to the province’s pot smokers with a ruling upholding workplace drug-testing policies that were at risk. In a new decision from the Alberta Court of Appeal, [...]
Nonviolent offenders could be treated the same as drivers who get caught speeding
Monday, January 7th, 2008Dallas Morning News, TX 31 Dec 2007 Tiara M. Ellis MARIJUANA TICKETS NOT CATCHING ON Law Designed to Free Jail Space Not Used Beyond Austin As Prosecutors Question Propriety Texas lawmakers thought they could help ease jail overcrowding when they passed legislation allowing police to write tickets for misdemeanor marijuana possession and a few other [...]
Legalizing hemp not high on government’s list of things to do
Monday, January 7th, 2008Minot Daily News, ND 31 Dec 2007 CONGRESS WON’T TALK ABOUT HEMP As the new year begins today, new laws will take effect around the country. In North Dakota, a state law allowing farmers to grow industrial hemp won’t be taking effect any time soon – if ever. The three members of the state’s congressional [...]
Matt Vaughn will not give up fight to dispense medical marijuana
Monday, January 7th, 2008Mountain Democrat, CA 31 Dec 2007 Ken Paglia IN CAMERON PARK: POT SHOP WON’T CLOSE WITHOUT FIGHT A Cameron Park medical marijuana dealer will be appealing the county’s refusal to renew his business license. Matt Vaughn, CEO of the Medical Marijuana Caregivers Association of El Dorado County, has been in business since 2004. MMCA, a [...]
One of the first Canadians legally licensed for marijuana for medical passed away
Monday, January 7th, 2008The Record, ON 29 Dec 2007 Karen Kawawada WOMAN LED FIGHT TO LEGALIZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA KITCHENER – In recent years, when people saw Catherine Devries of Kitchener, they saw a tiny and obviously ill woman who needed to use a wheelchair when she managed to get out of bed at all. But her family and [...]
BC Hydro assists police
Monday, January 7th, 2008Maple Ridge News, BC 26 Dec 2007 B.C. HYDRO LAUNCHES GROW-OP TIP LINE The provincial electricity provider is powering up a program to eliminate grow-ops. B.C. Hydro is partnering with Crime Stoppers in establishing a tip line to report people who may be stealing electricity, a common activity of people with indoor marijuana plantations. Hydro’s [...]
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