Archive for June 29th, 2007
Censorship, cannabis and the Supreme Court, USA
Friday, June 29th, 2007Washington Post Supreme Court Reporter
June 26, 2007
Robert Barnes
Supreme Court Issues Trio of Big 5-4 Decisions
Rulings Impact Campaign Finance Reform, Bush Faith-Based Initiatives and Student Speech
Washington Post Supreme Court reporter Robert Barnes was online Tuesday, June 26 at 11 a.m. ET to discuss the flurry of rulings that came Monday as the court nears the end [...]
Teachers toking with students – trendy or tragic?
Friday, June 29th, 2007The Associated Press
June 28, 2007
Teacher, Students Allegedly Smoke Pot
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A Goleta Valley Junior High School teacher is facing charges for allegedly smoking marijuana with two students.
Melissa Dunning, 31, was charged Wednesday with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and one count of furnishing marijuana. She faces arraignment July [...]
Cannabis clearly benefits HIV patients
Friday, June 29th, 2007NORML
New York, NY
June 28, 2007
Cannabis Has “Clear Medical Benefits” For HIV Patients, Study Says — Smoked marijuana produces “substantial and comparable increases in food intake … with little evidence of discomfort and no impairment of cognitive performanceâ€?
New York, NY: Inhaling cannabis significantly increases daily caloric intake and body weight in HIV-positive patients, is well tolerated, [...]
The clinical science of cannabis
Friday, June 29th, 2007JAIDS, Journal of Aquired Immune Deficiency Stndromes
June 21, 2007
Dronabinol and Marijuana in HIV-Positive Marijuana Smokers: Caloric
Intake, Mood, and Sleep.
CLINICAL SCIENCE
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. POST ACCEPTANCE, 21 June 2007 Haney, Margaret PHD *; Gunderson, Erik W MD *; Rabkin, Judith PHD *; Hart, Carl L PHD *+; Vosburg, Suzanne K PHD *; Comer, [...]
Another California city wants to snuff out medical marijuana dispensaries
Friday, June 29th, 2007San Bernardino Sun, CA
27 Jun 2007
Andrew Edwards
MORE CITIES PUSH TO NIX MEDICAL POT SHOPS
YUCAIPA – Another inland town moved closer to snuffing out medicinal marijuana Monday when the City Council approved staffers’ plans to craft an ordinance prohibiting medical cannabis dispensaries.
Yucaipa’s not the only East Valley city addressing the marijuana issue this week. In [...]
Teacher smokes cannabis with students (dejavu)
Friday, June 29th, 2007The Province, BC
28 Jun 2007
Jennifer Saltman
‘AWESOME’ TEACHER ON POT CHARGE
Community In Shock After Arrest Of Longtime Counsellor At Music Festival
LILLOOET – An “awesome” counsellor and teacher at Lillooet Secondary is to appear in court next month, charged with trafficking marijuana.
Don Gordon DeLong, 54, was arrested May 20, after he apparently chaperoned a small group of [...]
Controversy over salvia divinorum
Friday, June 29th, 2007The Province, BC
28 Jun 2007
HEAD-SHOP OWNERS DISMISS CALL TO CRIMINALIZE SALVIA
A new push to criminalize a little-known herbal hallucinogenic drug isn’t giving Chris Bennett cold sweats just yet.
In fact, the Vancouver head-shop owner says any controversy over salvia divinorum probably will be good for his business.
“Whenever I get a little bit of TV coverage on [...]
Illegally in the country and convicted of stealing electricity
Friday, June 29th, 2007Calgary Herald, AB
28 Jun 2007
Jason van Rassel
MARIJUANA GROWER DEPORTED
Man Connected To More Than A Dozen Grow Ops
Authorities have deported a man convicted for his role in a network of more than a dozen Calgary-area marijuana grow ops.
Canada Border Services Agency officers handed over Lai Guan Tan, 34, to foreign officials last week.
Although agency officials didn’t [...]
Measure G – attempts to control number of plants patients grow
Friday, June 29th, 2007Willits News, CA
27 Jun 2007
Mike A’Dair
DELBAR, WATTENBURGER DISAGREE ON POT PLANT LIMITS
Supervisors Michael Delbar and Jim Wattenburger could not reach agreement Monday on the number of plants to recommend as the maximum permissible in the committee’s draft medical marijuana possession guidelines resolution.
Wattenburger favored setting the limit at 12 mature female plants, and 18 immature female [...]
Man says marijuana helped his stomache
Friday, June 29th, 2007Sunstar Dumaguete, Philippines
27 Jun 2007
YC CHAIRMAN SAYS HE DIDN’T KNOW MARIJUANA IS ILLEGAL
Ignorance of the law, feigned or not, landed Youth Council chairman Ringi dela Cerna of Dalaupon Tayasan in jail after he was caught growing marijuana in his land. Dela Cerna told police that all he knows is that marijuana is a medicinal plant [...]