Archive for October 4th, 2007
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007Windsor Star, ON
04 Oct 2007
TORY DRUG PLAN PANNED BEFORE ANNOUNCEMENT
OTTAWA — A national anti-drug strategy that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to launch in Winnipeg today has been panned in advance by opposition party critics as too ideological.
The government is embracing a U.S.-style “war on drugs” that approaches drug abuse as more of a [...]
Compassion club fed-up with bureaucracy
Thursday, October 4th, 2007The Record, ON
03 Oct 2007
CLUB HEAD WANTS QUEBEC TO RUN MEDICAL MARIJUANA ACCESS PLAN
The founder of the Montreal Compassion Club wants Quebec to take over the administration of the federal Medical Marijuana Access program in the province.
Marc-Boris St-Maurice said yesterday the program is “an embarrassing oxymoron.”
He complained about major delays processing applications, licence renewals and [...]
Healthcare scrambling to fill gap in patient services caused by doctor’s arrests
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Cape Cod Times, MA
30 Sep 2007
Cynthia McCormick
THOUSANDS SEARCH FOR NEW DOCTORS
When Dr. Alfredo Gonzalez of Falmouth gave up his license to practice medicine after being arrested on marijuana charges earlier this month, he wasn’t alone.
Within the past year, the state Board of Registration in Medicine has ruled that two other Cape primary care physicians had [...]
America and Drugs – Still Crazy After All These Years
Thursday, October 4th, 2007The Daily Astorian, OR
03 Oct 2007
MEDICAL MARIJUANA IS SUBJECT OF PRESENTATION
Mothers Against Misuse and Abuse ( MAMA ) will give a presentation, “America and Drugs – Still Crazy After All These Years,” at noon Monday at the Cannery Cafe, No. 1 Sixth St. This event is part of a statewide tour to celebrate MAMA’s 25 [...]
Federal involvement in the local case as a form of “legal extortion.”
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Chico Enterprise-Record, CA
03 Oct 2007
Terry Vau Dell
FEDS TAKE OVER CHICO MEDICAL MARIJUANA CASE
OROVILLE — In a surprise move, federal prosecutors Tuesday took over a Chico pot cultivation case, effectively depriving the suspect of a medical marijuana defense in court, his attorney objected.
At the request of the U.S Attorney in Sacramento, the Butte County District Attorney’s [...]
Q and A: Aluminum bongs and alzheimer’s
Thursday, October 4th, 2007The Wesleyan Argus, CT Edu
02 Oct 2007
Professor T. David Westmoreland, Chemistry Dept.
ASK A PROFESSOR – DO ALUMINIUM FOIL BONGS CAUSE ALZHEIMER’S?
Whether it’s sitting in the back of a classroom enthralled by a 9 a.m. lecture or taking advantage of office hours to discuss that paper of yours that doesn’t quite have a thesis yet, it’s [...]
Torie’s “New War” could leave a wake of patients without medicine
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Globe and Mail, CN
01 Oct 2007
Anne McIlroy
GET-TOUGH PLAN ON DRUGS DOOMED, EXPERTS SAY
Liberal MP calls Tories’ policy a triumph of ‘ideology over science,’ urges medical, not moral, approach to issue
Canada’s war on drugs is about to escalate. But as the federal Conservative governments prepares to unveil a new strategy that cracks down on illicit drug [...]
No more medical marijuana distribution in Visalia
Thursday, October 4th, 2007The Visalia Times-Delta, CA
02 Oct 2007
Gerald Carroll
PATIENTS MAKE CASE FOR POT
Medical Marijuana Users Want Visalia Dispensary Open
Visalia Compassionate Caregivers have suspended their long-standing practice of quietly dispensing marijuana to patients as a result of the city’s nuisance-ticket ordinance.
“We were going to be charged $100 for the first offense, then $200, then $500,” said Jeff Nunes, [...]
War on drugs a Universal failure
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Daily Pilot, CA
1 Oct 2007
James P. Gray
IT’S A GRAY AREA: CURRENT DRUG POLICIES INEFFICIENT
Let us face facts and let us not mince words: Our nation’s policy of drug prohibition is not working.
This policy is actually causing much more harm than the prohibited drugs themselves would ever be causing on their own — here and everywhere [...]
But did he inhale?
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Leader-Telegram, WI
28 Sep 2007
EX-CLARK COUNTY DA PLEADS GUILTY IN POT CASE
A former Clark County district attorney charged with growing marijuana in the basement of his former Neillsville home pleaded guilty Thursday.
Sentencing for Gene B. Radcliffe, 55, has been set for Dec. 19 in Clark County Court.
Radcliffe served one term as district attorney in the late [...]