Archive for August, 2007
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007The Hants Journal, NS 16 Aug 2007 ADVOCATE CONTENDS MARIJUANA LAWS OUTDATED, UNJUST Chummy Anthony became an activist for the Marijuana Party of Canada in 2003 and spoke with conviction as he recalled the personal journey that led to his advocacy against the injustice of marijuana laws. Anthony says public pressures; police monitoring; family feuds; [...]
El Dorado Doctor and Husband Insist Their Plants Are Medicinal
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Sacramento Bee, CA 17 Aug 2007 Denny Walsh COUPLE FOUND GUILTY IN POT CASE An El Dorado County couple who insist they treat marijuana only as a medicine, but who ran afoul of the federal government’s zero tolerance for the drug, were found guilty Thursday by a Sacramento jury of conspiring to grow and distribute [...]
Advocates want New Mexico to adopt a pharmaceutical model
Saturday, August 18th, 2007The New Mexican, NM 15 Aug 2007 Diana Del Mauro LEGAL FEARS HACK AWAY AT STATE’S POT PLAN Patients Have Few Options to Find Pain-Relieving Drug New Mexico could have been the first state in the nation to build a centralized production and distribution system for medical marijuana, but the Health Department doesn’t want to [...]
Industrial hemp could have significant environmental and economic advantages for Oregon
Saturday, August 18th, 2007The Beaverton Valley Times, OR 16 Aug 2007 Anne Marie DiStefano LONG ARM OF LAW MAY SOMEDAY WEAR HEMP Americana Crop Stages Comeback in Goods From T-Shirts to Butters The hippie days live on in a handful of head shops on upper Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, so you might be surprised if you step into a [...]
Former Attorney General wants patients protected
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Topeka Capital-Journal, KS 15 Aug 2007 Tim Carpenter FORMER A.G. TO PUSH FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA Former Attorney General Robert Stephan plans to speak out Friday about what he believes is the need to legalize the medical consumption of marijuana in Kansas. The state’s chief law enforcement officer from 1979 to 1995 will participate in a [...]
El Dorado County implements the California Medical Marijuana Program
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Tahoe Daily Tribune, CA 16 Aug 2007 Jeff Munson MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROGRAM BEGINS IN EL DORADO COUNTY As of this week, adult pot smokers deemed to have “serious medical conditions” can apply for a county permit and pay an annual $114 fee to use the psychotropic drug legally with a doctor’s prescription. The El Dorado [...]
LAPD lap dogs for DEA
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Los Angeles Times, CA 16 Aug 2007 Steve Hymon LAPD WILL CONTINUE TO HELP WITH FEDERAL POT STORE RAIDS Some on the Council Say the Action Undermines a State Law Allowing the Medical Marijuana Sales. Los Angeles police said Wednesday that they will continue to participate in federal raids on local medical marijuana dispensaries against [...]
City Council prepared to ask LAPD to stop participating in DEA raids
Saturday, August 18th, 2007Los Angeles Daily News, CA 16 Aug 2007 Rick Orlov COUNCIL FRUSTRATED BY DEA POT RAIDS Wearing pink arm bands to show their support for the use of medical marijuana, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday asked for information on other cities’ success in stopping clinic raids by federal agents. Voicing frustration with city [...]
Judge to decide whether to return Matthews’ confiscated marijuana
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Merced Sun-Star, CA 15 Aug 2007 Victor A. Patton MEDICAL MARIJUANA USER WINS CASE AGAINST CITY OF MERCED Small Claims Judge Orders City To Pay Man $1,700 For Pain And Suffering Samuel Matthews got high Tuesday ? but it wasn’t from marijuana. Judge Armando Rodriguez awarded Matthews, a medical marijuana user, $1,700 for pain and [...]
Fed’s scare tactics concern New Mexico
Thursday, August 16th, 2007The Washington Post August 15, 2007 DEBORAH BAKER N.M.: Won’t Oversee Marijuana Production SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico will not grow medical marijuana for seriously ill patients for fear that the federal government could prosecute state workers, but will continue to certify which patients are eligible to possess the drug. The state health department [...]
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