Archive for August 22nd, 2007
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007The Associated Press
August 18, 2007
BARRY MASSEY
N.M. Planning Medical Marijuana Program
SANTA FE, N.M. — Gov. Bill Richardson ordered the state Health Department on Friday to resume planning of a medical marijuana program despite the agency’s worries about possible federal prosecution.
However, the governor stopped short of committing to implement a state-licensed production and distribution system for the [...]
Cops are becoming the new criminals
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, WA
21 Aug 2007
Maria P. Gonzalez
POLICE SEIZE PRESCRIBED MARIJUANA
It Is Legal for Him to Have Pot, but a Police Sergeant Says It Was Illegal for the Pot to Be in View of the Officer.
Mark Gilliland wants his marijuana back.
The 32-year-old Walla Walla resident had about 24 grams of marijuana taken by police officers [...]
New pot initiative to be voted on in November
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Rocky Mountain News, CO
21 Aug 2007
Stuart Steers
COUNCIL HOLDS NOSE, PUTS POT ON NOV. BALLOT
Plan Would Make Small Amounts the ‘Lowest’ Priority
Voters will decide this fall on a ballot initiative that would make possession of small amounts of marijuana the “lowest law enforcement priority” of Denver police, the City Council decided Monday night.
Most council members oppose [...]
Advocates want city to stop prosecuting people for possession of marijuana
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Denver Post, CO
21 Aug 2007
Manny Gonzales
DENVER VOTERS TO SETTLE POT-LAW DISPUTE
The City Council Backs Off a Proposal to Pass an Anti-Marijuana-Enforcement Ordinance That Members Hoped Would Bring a Court Ruling Against It.
The Denver City Council on Monday backed off from intervening in a ballot initiative that would make possession of a small amount of marijuana [...]
Hemp is a superior fibre in many cases
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Ashland Daily Tidings, OR
18 Aug 2007
Robert Plain
HEMP: THE VERSATILE FIBER
Many know Ashland resident Andy Kerr as an ardent environmental activist, but he is also on the board of directors for the North American Industrial Hemp Council.
“Most of my career I’ve dealt with the supply side of the timber economy,” said the former executive director of [...]
Hemcrete has enormous potential
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Kingston Whig-Standard, ON
17 Aug 2007
Jennifer Pritchett
BUILDING STRAW HOUSES
From Flax To Hemp, Researchers Tout Merits Of Bio-Construction
Fuelled by a growing demand for environmentally friendly buildings, hemp, wheat, flax and other grains are now being touted as emerging raw materials in the construction industry.
The merits of these so-called “biofibres” and their applications in Canada, the United Kingdom [...]
Compassion club must first become wheelchair accesible
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA
20 Aug 2007
Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross
HISTORIC HIGH
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is moving to designate the city’s first pot club as a historic landmark.
Supervisor Bevan Dufty introduced a measure this past week to give the old Cannabis Buyers Club ( now the Compassionate Care Clinic ) at 194 Church St. [...]
Cultivation of industrial hemp is unambiguously illegal under federal law
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA
20 Aug 2007
Haley Davies
LEGISLATORS TO CONSIDER LEGALIZING THE CULTIVATION OF HEMP
State legislators are expected to consider a measure this week that would allow hemp to be grown in California, rekindling the debate over whether such a move would increase cultivation of illegal marijuana and conflict with federal laws regulating the drug.
A committee [...]
City Council and LAPD at odds over medicinal marijuana
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Daily Breeze, CA
20 Aug 2007
LAPD IS TAKING LAWS INTO ITS OWN HANDS
The Police Department shouldn’t be able to pick and choose the laws it wants to enforce.
When federal agents busted down doors raiding medical- marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles in July, Los Angeles Police Department officers were their comrades in arms.
The department’s assistance in the [...]
Need to weed medical users out from criminal behaviour
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007The Eureka Reporter, CA
19 Aug 2007
SUPES MULL LETTER OF SUPPORT FOR LEGALIZING MARIJUANA
Following a three-week summer break, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will return to the board chamber Tuesday morning at 9 to tackle a hefty agenda of items, reports and hearings.
The board will take up a discussion of whether to send a letter [...]