Archive for April, 2008
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008Sat, 5 Apr 2008 Desert Sun, The (Palm Springs, CA) Amy Blaisdell MARIJUANA DISPENSARY SCORES VICTORY IN COURT Judge Rules Search Warrant Served on CannaHelp Invalid; D.A. to Appeal The criminal case against the owner and managers of a Palm Desert medical marijuana dispensary was dealt a setback Friday when a judge invalidated the search [...]
Damage to hemp store may cause owner to close his doors
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Fri, 04 Apr 2008 Coast Reporter (CN BC) Greg Amos HEMP BUSINESS ‘POSSIBLY TARGETED’ 420 Break-Ins After four separate incidences of vandalism in March, the owner of downtown Sechelt’s 420 Hemp Shop is considering closing his shop for good. “This is going to put me out of business,” said Danny Owsnett, who founded the store [...]
Lawsuits contend Measure B is unconstitutional
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Sat, 5 Apr 2008 Willits News (CA) Mike A’Dair POT WAR GOES TO COURT A second lawsuit seeking to block Measure B from appearing on the June ballot was filed last week. The suit, filed by independent newspaper publisher Richard Johnson, follows an earlier lawsuit by Mendocino attorney E. D. Lerman on behalf of medical [...]
Hearst newspaper$ responsible for Reefer Madness?
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Tue, 1 Apr 2008 Nyack Villager, The (NY) Shel Haber THE MARIJUANA PLOT Cannabis, marijuana’s real name, was legal before 1930 and openly available at pharmacies across the USA. It was commonly prescribed by doctors to relieve pain and menstrual cramps. The word marijuana is nothing more than Mexican slang for cannabis or hemp, the [...]
Interview with Dan Konstantin, Pot Seed Breeder
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Thu, 03 Apr 2008 NOW Magazine (CN ON) Matt Mernagh INTERVIEW BY MATT MERNAGH WITH POT SEED BREEDER DAN KONSTANTIN My original quest to speak with Konstantin amongst cannabis community contacts turned up all the wrong leads. His lawyer hooked me up. Yet cannabis aficionados drool over his creation of a plant he called God [...]
100 Mile House committed to planting hemp crops this year
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Wed, 02 Apr 2008 100 Mile House Free Press (CN BC) Joan Silver HEMP FARMING, THE OTHER CASH CROP It’s been three long years of research, meetings, planning and trials and this is the year to prove it’s all been worthwhile. The District of 100 Mile House has been actively pursuing hemp farming, a project [...]
Cruel and unusual punishment to extradite pot activist to the U.S.
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Thu, 03 Apr 2008 NOW Magazine (CN ON) Matt Mernagh HOMEGROWN BAILOUT? POT PRINCE PALS TRY TO ARREST HIM UNDER CANUCK LAW There’s a massive cloud of cannabis confusion hovering around Marc Emery’s extradition case now that the deal between the Prince of Pot and U.S. prosecutors has hit the skids. Under the now-defunct arrangement, [...]
There is no reason pot should be banned for adults
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Sun, 30 Mar 2008 Eagle-Tribune, The (MA) Taylor Armerding PROSECUTING POT IS A WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY This is historic. Barney Frank and I agree on something. Actually, I probably agree with at least 10 percent of what the now-veteran, hard-left Massachusetts congressman says and does. It’s just that there are few places where [...]
Reefer madness persists in the dusty corners of State House
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Sun, 30 Mar 2008 Milford Daily News, The (MA) Rick Holmes COMMON SENSE ON MARIJUANA Now that we’ve settled the casino thing, anybody for a joint? Marijuana decriminalization is the next hot-button social issue moving through the state Legislature. But unlike casino gambling, marijuana reform can’t be stopped by House Speaker Sal DiMasi. If the [...]
Rick Steves: An unlikely voice on behalf of ending the tragedy of the drug war
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Tue, 1 Apr 2008 New York Times (NY) Timothy Egan FRESH IDEAS FOR A TIRED CRUSADE The travel writer and public television host, Rick Steves, is a certain kind of innocent abroad – benignly suburban to the core, with a bit of a paunch and the ever-quizzical look of someone who would try raw squid [...]
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