Archive for July 7th, 2007
No eviction for pot-smoking granny
Saturday, July 7th, 2007BBC News, UK
July 6, 2007
Gran wins cannabis home use row
Patricia Tabram said the judgement vindicated her way of life
A grandmother convicted of growing cannabis at her Northumberland cottage, can continue using the drug at home.
Patricia Tabram, 68, from Humshaugh, was found guilty in March of possessing and cultivating cannabis, which she says is used for [...]
Indigenous man fights for right to grow hemp, USA
Saturday, July 7th, 2007Standing Silent Nation
June 2007
Alex White Plume’s Update
June 2007 -The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the local district court’s decision will stand, but they also said that there is a hemp farm and there is a marijuana farm, and so they distinguished between the two species of plants. But only Congress can change the law. [...]
New Mexico will grow their own
Saturday, July 7th, 2007Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, ON
02 Jul 2007
Deborah Baker
N.M. TO GROW MARIJUANA FOR ITS RESIDENTS
SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico has a new medical marijuana law with a twist: It requires the state to grow its own.
The law, effective Sunday, not only protects medical marijuana users from prosecution – as 11 other states do – but [...]
Letter to Editor: Change of minds leads to change in policy
Saturday, July 7th, 2007The Ledger, FL
06 Jul 2007
MEDICAL MARIJUANA
At least 10 of the 18 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are now on the record in favor of ending the Drug Enforcement Administration’s raids on medical marijuana and/or the federal government’s prohibition on medical marijuana. Thanks to the Marijuana Policy Project’s work, seven candidates have publicly pledged to [...]
Policy makers try again to get a hemp bill past the govenator
Saturday, July 7th, 2007Chico Enterprise-Record, CA
6 Jul 2007
HEMP FARMING STILL A POSSIBILITY
Growing industrial hemp may not be against state law in California before long, but the state will give hemp farming the training-wheels treatment.
Federal law currently bans hemp cultivation, but that’s being challenged in court by North Dakota, one of several states that allows the crop to be [...]
Pot smokers might revolt, if they weren’t so mellow
Saturday, July 7th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA
06 Jul 2007
Kathleen Parker
GORE III CASE SPOTLIGHTS POT DEBATE
NEWS that Al Gore’s 24-year-old son, Al Gore III, was busted for pot and assorted prescription pills has unleashed a torrent of mirth in certain quarters.
Gore-phobes on the Internet apparently view the son’s arrest and incarceration as comeuppance for the father’s shortcomings. Especially rich [...]
No shortage of hypocrisy and hype
Saturday, July 7th, 2007AlterNet
July 6, 2007
Norman Kent
Senator, You Used to Be a Pot Head — Now You’re Talking Like a Narc
Editor’s Note: The following is a letter addressed to Minnesota Republican Senator Norm Coleman — a strong advocate of the brutal federal drug laws on the books — reminding him that he used to be a happy, safe, [...]