Archive for August 3rd, 2007
Andrea Lindsay testifies in the Swallow and Beren trial
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Victoria Times Colonist, BC
August 03, 2007
Richard Watts
Fibromyalgia sufferer testifies at pot trial
A fibromyalgia sufferer, licensed to use marijuana as medicine, has worked hard to comply with regulations but can’t line up a legal, affordable supply, court heard yesterday.
Andrea Lindsay testified circumstances, Health Canada red tape or cost always see her go back to compassion clubs [...]
Bottom line – federal laws do not recognize any state laws making marijuana legal
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Mount Shasta Herald, CA
02 Aug 2007
Paul Boerger
COUNTIES, CITIES SET THEIR OWN MARIJUANA LIMITS
It hasn’t happened in Siskiyou County yet, but elected officials in other California counties and cities have passed ordinances governing how many marijuana plants and how much processed plant a legitimate user of medical marijuana may possess at one time.
Such ordinances are provided [...]
Another California dispensary forced to close its doors
Friday, August 3rd, 2007The Oakland Tribune, CA
03 Aug 2007
Rachel Cohen
COUNCIL SECRETLY SNUFFS POT CLUB
Medical Marijuana Dispensary Says It Will Shut Down This Month
HAYWARD — More than a dozen patients from the Hayward Patients Resources Center pleaded with council members at the meeting to keep the city’s last medical marijuana dispensary open.
But their pleas Tuesday were moot because the [...]
Bill 420 – Identification program for patient’s growing medical marijuana
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Willits News, CA
03 Aug 2007
Mike A’Dair
ALLMAN: ZIP-TIES ARE IN
The zip-ties are in. So says Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman.
The zip-ties are an effort by Allman to reduce the element of fraud in the medical marijuana industry.
Allman said that the zip ties are available at the sheriff’s offices in Ukiah, Fort Bragg and Willits. This year [...]
Testimony continues in Victoria at the trial of Swallow and Beren
Friday, August 3rd, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC
02 Aug 2007
Richard Watts
POT GROWER CAN’T MEET NEED
Court Hears Federal Rules Force Medical Marijuana Users On To Black Market
A Vancouver Island grower of organic marijuana is being inundated with pleas for pot from disease sufferers but Health Canada says he can supply only one person, court heard yesterday.
Eric Nash said he even wrote [...]