Archive for July 11th, 2007
Californians offered treatment over jail time – try just leaving them alone
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Chicago Sun-Times, IL
07 Jul 2007
Tony Newman
TREATMENT TRUMPS JAIL FOR FIRST-TIME OFFENDERS
Al Gore III’s mug shot appeared in newspapers across the country Thursday thanks to his arrest Wednesday on charges of possession of marijuana and prescription pills.
An Orange County sheriff’s deputy pulled him over for driving his Toyota Prius at 100 mph. Police said the car [...]
Most Canadians do not abuse cannabis, so why is it still illegal?
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007National Post
July 11, 2007
Legalizing pot makes sense
If you had to guess which of the world’s countries consumed a lot of marijuana, and you had only crude, tabular economic information instead of facts about culture to work from, you would probably look for a physically huge land mass with a long open border that was parcelled [...]
Cannabis has become an accepted mainstream cultural substance, despite prohibition
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Edmonton Sun, AB
July 11, 2007
MINDELLE JACOBS
Politics and potheads
Next year will mark a century since the 1908 Opium Act and Canada’s initial tortuous, costly and fruitless attempt to use the law as a whip to scare people off illicit drugs.
The UN’s 2007 World Drug Report is the latest in a long list of studies to underscore [...]
Legalize it, tax the hell out of it and put the money into health care
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007The Province, BC
July 11, 2007
David Carrigg and Glenda Luymes
Decriminalize pot: Campbell
B.C. senator and ex-mayor says possession should result in fine
Marc Emery reacts to the news by taking a bong hit in the headquarters of Cannabis Culture Marijuana Magazine.
Possession of marijuana should result in a fine, not a criminal record, says Sen. Larry Campbell.
“If we’re going [...]
Giuliani – when uninformed politicians speak, the sick suffer
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007The Associated Press
July 10, 2007
PHILIP ELLIOTT
Giuliani Rejects Medical Marijuana Use
CONCORD, N.H. — Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that people who want to legalize marijuana for medical purposes really just want to make the drug available to everyone.
“I believe the effort to try and make marijuana available for medical uses is really a way to [...]
Farmers to seek licenses for the production of hemp
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007The Associated Press
July 11, 2007
CHET BROKAW
S.D. Farmer Struggling to Grow Hemp
MANDERSON, S.D. — Alex White Plume hoped his family could make a living growing hemp when he first planted seeds on an Indian reservation here, but years of fighting with federal drug officials have left him in financial trouble.
The White Plume family planted hemp on [...]