Archive for July 20th, 2007
« Previous EntriesCrushing local compassionate collectives
Friday, July 20th, 2007Los Angeles City Beat, CA
19 Jul 2007
Ron Garmon
Feds Use Asset-Forfeiture Laws to Spell Evictions for Medical-Pot Providers
White House drug czar John P. Walters isn’t a figure to command awe, so rhetoric had some considerable slack to transcend.
Out in Redding last Thursday, July 12, to bestow federal benediction on a National Guard/Shasta County pot-eradication drive, the [...]
Smells more like political agenda
Friday, July 20th, 2007The Daily Herald-Tribune, AB
18 Jul 2007
Noor Javed
POT LAWS CAUSING COURT BACKLOG
Ottawa needs to fix long-standing loopholes and inconsistencies in Canada’s marijuana laws, to help the justice system contend with a surge of court cases resulting from the Conservative government’s new zeal for enforcement, legal experts say.
With witnesses reporting a dramatic increase in the number of [...]
Criminalization of cannabis a destructive and costly path
Friday, July 20th, 2007Times Colonist, BC
July 20, 2007
The wrong course on marijuana
Treating users as criminals has been costly, damaged lives and accomplished nothing
It’s disheartening to see Canada sliding backwards on drugs, embracing policies that have been proven to do considerable damage while accomplishing nothing.
Policies like treating marijuana possession as a criminal offence.
The former Liberal government sensibly introduced legislation [...]
Chavez has high hopes for medical marijuana
Friday, July 20th, 2007Los Angeles Times, CA
19 Jul 2007
Dana Parsons
A CHARTER MEMBER OF O.C.’S CANNABIS CLUB
Marvin Chavez Used Marijuana for Pain Relief and Ended Up in Prison. Now He Hopes to Set Up a New Medical Pot Group.
I hadn’t talked to Marvin Chavez since an Orange County jury convicted him in 1998 of selling marijuana. He was fuming [...]
The Fed’s vs. the sick and dying
Friday, July 20th, 2007Press-Enterprise, CA
19 Jul 2007
David Olson
FEDS DIGGING DEEP IN POT-DISPENSARY BLITZ
Tuesday’s raid on a marijuana dispensary in Corona is part of broader law-enforcement efforts to shut down medical-pot outlets throughout Southern California.
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration earlier this month threatened to seize the property of about 150 Los Angeles County landlords unless they stopped renting to [...]
Police spin lies and the terminally ill suffer
Friday, July 20th, 2007The Orange County Register, CA
19 Jul 2007
Sean Emery and Vik Jolly
CITY ROLLS OUT LAWS TO MAKE MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES ILLEGAL
San Juan Capistrano Adopts an Ordinance to Prevent Opening Distribution Centers and Introduces a Licensing Restriction.
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — The City Council on Tuesday unanimously adopted an interim urgency ordinance restricting the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries.
At [...]
Caregivers and a doctor face up to 40 years in prison for helping sick patients
Friday, July 20th, 2007The Press Democrat, CA
19 Jul 2007
OPERATOR OF UKIAH POT DISPENSARY INDICTED
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced a set of indictments Tuesday alleging that operators of nearly a dozen medical marijuana dispensaries, including one in Ukiah, profiteered from the illegal distribution of pot.
Among those accused are the operators of Compassionate Caregivers, a chain-store medical marijuana operation [...]
Amendment could kill funding for federal attacks on medical marijuana
Friday, July 20th, 2007Los Angeles Times, CA
19 Jul 2007
NEW CHALLENGES FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA
The Drug Enforcement Administration Goes After Landlords Who Rent to Dispensaries.
THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT Administration has notified more than 150 Los Angeles property owners that their fortunes and their sacred honor are forfeit to the state. What crime must a landlady commit to deserve this punishment? [...]
Vancouver pot-heads lulled into a false sense of security
Friday, July 20th, 2007Vancouver Sun, BC
19 Jul 2007
Chad Skelton
CITY POLICE GETTING TOUGHER WITH POT SMOKERS
Number Charged With Simple Possession Doubles In Five Years
The number of people charged with simple possession of marijuana in the City of Vancouver has doubled over just the past five years — suggesting the city’s reputation for leniency on pot may no longer be [...]
Quebec, a friend in deed
Friday, July 20th, 2007Edmonton Sun, AB
19 Jul 2007
Lyn Cockburn
CANADA GOES TO POT
Dieu merci. Thank God for Quebec. They’ve gotten us anglos off the hook yet again.
First, they obligingly claimed the highest rate of opposition in Canada to our country’s mission in Afghanistan, thus letting the rest of us feel properly patriotic.
Never mind that some 200 Royal 22nd Regiment [...]