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Monday, August 27th, 2007Hamilton Spectator August 24/07 Barbara Brown The spiritual leaders of a church that uses marijuana as its sacrament are seeking a court order for the return of several pounds of pot and other items seized from their Barton Street headquarters during an RCMP raid. Church of the Universe ministers Walter Tucker, 74, and Michael [...]
New Mexico only state calling for state-licensed production and distribution
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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