Archive for September, 2007
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Friday, September 28th, 2007NOW Magazine, ON
27 Sep 2007
Matt Mernagh
TIME FOR CITY TO GROW OP
City’s Crackdown On Grow Ops Doesn’t Protect Medical Pot Growers
After three hours punching each other silly over issues like amending the fireworks bylaw, the licensing and standards committee is finally ready to hear my deputation September 11.
I’m here on behalf of the Canadian Cannabis Society [...]
Be kind to cannabis says activist
Friday, September 28th, 2007The Appalachian, NC Edu
27 Sep 2007
Allison Casey
‘HIGH TIMES’ FEATURES STUDENT’S EFFORTS TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA
According to the Appalachian State University annual crime report, there were 42 on-campus arrests and 144 judicial referrals for drug violations in 2006.
Josh C. Kleinstreuer, a senior electronic media broadcasting major, is working to change marijuana policies.
It is estimated that in the [...]
Another California city feels the wrath of the DEA
Friday, September 28th, 2007The Santa Barbara Independent, CA
27 Sep 2007
FEDS TARGET S.B. MEDICAL MARIJUANA SHOPS
After enjoying years of relatively hassle-free business, Santa Barbara’s medical marijuana scene is feeling the heat this week, with a distinctly ganja-scented cloud of uncertainty hanging over its future in the wake of a federal Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) letter-writing campaign.
In recent [...]
Another state puts pressure on misguided federal policy
Friday, September 28th, 2007Badger Herald, U of WI
25 Sep 2007
A HIGHER TOLERANCE
Reps. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, and Frank Boyle, D-Superior, recently introduced legislation that would legalize medicinal marijuana in Wisconsin. We urge the state to lift its ban and pass the bill.
Messrs. Boyle and Pocan introduced similar legislation in 2001. It failed then and two more times in 2003 [...]
Thousands of patients will suffer after DEA raids another dispensary
Friday, September 28th, 2007Sacramento Bee, CA
27 Sep 2007
Niesha Lofing
MEDICAL POT DISPENSARY RAIDED BY DEA AGENTS
Federal authorities raided a medical marijuana dispensary Wednesday in Sacramento as employees, customers and medical marijuana advocates protested out front.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration served a federal search warrant around 9 a.m. at River City Patient Center at 1512 El Camino Ave., along with [...]
Cannabis a God-given herb
Friday, September 28th, 2007Mondovi Herald-News, WI
27 Sep 2007
MEDICAL MARIJUANA BILL NAMED FOR MONDOVI RESIDENT
A new medical marijuana bill named for Mondovi resident Jacki Rickert, a longtime Wisconsin medical cannabis patient-activist, will be introduced in the coming weeks. In a press conference Tuesday, Sept. 18, in the Senate Parlor at the State Capitol in Madison, State Reps. Frank Boyle [...]
Cannabis and post traumatic stress
Friday, September 28th, 2007Esquire, US
01 Oct 2007
Colby Buzzell
MEDICAL POT AND THE IRAQ VETERAN
We’re Back From the War. We Can’t Sleep. We’re Getting Divorced. If Marijuana Is Good for Post-Traumatic Stress, Who Are We to Deny Its Medicinal Properties?
Can medical marijuana help returning soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan war deal with post-traumatic stress disorder?
This question — that it [...]
Morals vs. man’s interests
Friday, September 28th, 2007The Collegian, U of Tulsa, OK
25 Sep 2007
Kyle Klavetter
POT LACKS PURPOSE
It would be nice to hear the government admit that it over-regulates, that it needs to mellow out and give citizens a little more control over their own lives.
But must the first steps on the road to recovering freedoms from the fount of Constitutional federalism [...]
DEA storms the wrong house, traumatizes innocent couple
Friday, September 28th, 2007The Press Democrat, CA
25 Sep 2007
Lori A. Carter
SUIT OVER DRUG RAID
Damages Sought Against DEA Agents, Petaluma Officer In Mistaken ID Case
A North Bay couple whose home was raided by drug agents has filed a federal lawsuit against the officers, claiming they violated their civil and constitutional rights in a slipshod investigation that ended with the [...]
UVSS HEMPOLOGY 101 CLUB – LECTURE SERIES 2007/08
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007Sept. 26/07
LESSON #3 : CANNABIS AROUND THE WORLD
Every country has a different cannabis culture, with citizens growing in at least 172 countries. In countries like Canada the use of the herb and enforcement of the law can vary between areas in the same province. With improvements in indoor growing techniques and seeds available on-line, there [...]