Archive for August 5th, 2007
The One Hitters team up to make a statement
Sunday, August 5th, 2007The Washington Post
August 5, 2007
Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Marijuana Lobbyists? They’re Smokin’ the Competition!
So, listen, Barry Bonds: We’ve got, like, a completely new way of thinking about this whole debate on controlled substances in athletics that will totally blow your mind.
The new team in first place in the Congressional Softball League? None other than Washington’s [...]
Doctor calls recent MBC actions in California a witch-hunt
Sunday, August 5th, 2007The Santa Barbara Independent, CA
31 Jul 2007
Barney Brantingham
REEFER MADNESS
Goleta Doctor Cracks Down on Pot-Seeking Patients
Years ago, if you wanted to smoke marijuana, you’d likely turn off the lights, pull down the shades, and hunker down before puffing.
Today, you might amble down to one of Santa Barbara’s eight medical marijuana shops, letter from a doctor in [...]
All the pot seizures in the world aren’t going to stop them
Sunday, August 5th, 2007The Chico News & Review, CA
02 Aug 2007
REEFER MADNESS
Recently, more than 200 federal, state and local law enforcement officers launched a huge marijuana-eradication effort in the mountains of Shasta County. The strike, dubbed Operation Alesia, was so big that even President Bush’s drug czar, John Walters, flew out to Redding on July 12 to kick [...]
Lawyers for Swallow and Beren challenge Canada’s medical marijuana regulations
Sunday, August 5th, 2007Vancouver Sun, BC
04 Aug 2007
MEDICINAL POT GROWER SEES HUGE DEMAND
Trial in Island Compassion Club Case Told Ottawa Keeps Lid on Pot Suppliers
VICTORIA – 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, a provincial court trial has [...]
Canadians for cannabis
Sunday, August 5th, 2007The Morning Star, BC
03 Aug 2007
Jennifer Dyck
ACTIVIST SPREADS HIS MESSAGE
When he thinks of how his forefathers took bullets for our freedoms, Neil Magnuson can’t believe what a slap in the face it must be for those soldiers today.
“Freedom to obey is not what they went to war to take bullets for,” said the 50-year-old activist [...]
Fed’s attack on medical marijuana costly, while commercial growers flourish
Sunday, August 5th, 2007San Gabriel Valley Tribune, CA
04 Aug 2007
Thomas Elias
FBI MEDIPOT RAID PRIORITIES ARE OUT OF WHACK
THERE’S something almost idiotic about the obviously confused and misguided way in which federal authorities are trying to enforce anti-marijuana laws in California today.
Nothing better illustrates this than the headlines that appeared together in newspapers this spring and summer about numerous [...]
DEA is running wild in the laboratories of democracy
Sunday, August 5th, 2007Reasononline
August 1, 2007
Jacob Sullum
Spliff Split
Why don’t more Republicans oppose the DEA’s medical marijuana raids?
Last week the Los Angeles City Council voted for a measure that asked the federal government to stop harassing medical marijuana users in California. Minutes later, the Drug Enforcement Administration raided 10 medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles County.
The disrespect for local [...]
Grand jury wants DuPay to give names
Sunday, August 5th, 2007Portland Tribune, OR
03 Aug 2007
Nick Budnick
FEDS STRIKE MEDICAL POT GROWERS
Grand Jury Seeks Patient Records After DEA Raid on Portland House
A secret federal grand jury is duking it out with the state of Oregon to obtain the confidential records of some medical marijuana patients, the Portland Tribune has learned.
The ongoing grand jury probe has included a [...]
Municipal leaders who support medical marijuana should lobby Congress
Sunday, August 5th, 2007Daily Breeze, CA
03 Aug 2007
ONLY CONGRESS CAN RESOLVE POT BATTLE
Realistically, Los Angeles leaders should direct their efforts at changing the rules, not telling federal agencies what to do.
Following in the footsteps of Torrance, Carson and a number of other South Bay cities, the Los Angeles City Council this week approved a moratorium on new medical [...]