Archive for August 13th, 2007
Smoking Pot Won’t Make You Crazy, But Dealing with the Lies about It Will
Monday, August 13th, 2007HuffingtonPost.com
August 13, 2007
Paul Armentano and Mitch Earlywine
A new attempt to scare pot smokers in Britain alleges that smoking pot can increase the risk of becoming “psychotic.” A quick glance at the data cited reveals no such correlation.
Smoking pot won’t make you crazy, but trying to find the truth behind the recent rash of headlines regarding [...]
Vernon RCMP officer points pepperspray at Neil
Monday, August 13th, 2007Cannabis Culture
08 Aug, 2007
Jodie Emery
RCMP Assaults Freedom Tour Activist, Then Lies About Incident!
A peaceful event turns brutal when a bylaw officer and police officer feel the need to get rough with an activist
Neil Magnuson is the man behind The Freedom Tour. For a second time in two years, he is rollerblading from Victoria, BC to [...]
Medical marijuana smokers have rights too
Monday, August 13th, 2007Globe and Mail, CN
August 11, 2007
ALWYNNE GWILT
For a pot smoker in pain, no help is on the way
Sitting back on a comfy couch in her Burlington residence, Alison Myrden looks ready for battle. Two long braids are tucked under her black cargo cap, while sunshine hits her sparkling nose stud and glints off of her [...]
Cops clueless on the value of cannabis
Monday, August 13th, 2007Marin Independent Journal, CA
12 Aug 2007
Gary Klien
HOMEGROWN: HOW DO COPS PUT A VALUE ON THE BUSTS?
When San Rafael police raided an indoor pot farm last month, they seized 600 plants and estimated their street value at $800,000.
Yet when the Marin County Major Crimes Task Force raided an indoor farm in Ignacio days earlier, they seized [...]
Prohibitionism is a religion more than a policy
Monday, August 13th, 2007The Orange County Register, CA
12 Aug 2007
Alan Bock, Sr.
TREATMENT INTERRUPTED
Orange County Agrees to Medical-Marijuana ID Cards Just As the DEA Cracks Down on Dispensaries in L.A.: Every Positive Step Seems to Be Met With a Step Backward
Eleven years after California voters, by passing Proposition 215, created exceptions to the marijuana prohibition laws for medical patients [...]
Clean-up cost will be added to Landlord’s tax bills
Monday, August 13th, 2007Hamilton Spectator, ON
08 Aug 2007
Nicole MacIntyre
CITY CAN PENALIZE GROW-OP LANDLORDS
The city is upping its power to clean up — or even tear down — marijuana grow operations.
A new bylaw, approved by the planning and economic development committee yesterday, gives the city the right to clean up a grow-op at the expense of the property owner. [...]
Weed on wheels
Monday, August 13th, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC
11 Aug 2007
Linda Nguyen
POTMOBILE BUSTED IN FERRY LINEUP
WEST VANCOUVER — It was a business venture worthy of famed ’70s potheads Cheech and Chong: Police officers called to investigate a possible drunk driver discovered $60,000 worth of marijuana plants being grown inside a car.
The 140 plants — in two stages of growth — were [...]