Archive for October 8th, 2007
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Monday, October 8th, 2007The Associated Press
October 5, 2007
PAUL ELIAS
Pot Candy Factory Owner Surrenders
SAN FRANCISCO — The founder of an Oakland food factory that laces everything from cookies to barbecue sauce with marijuana surrendered Thursday to face a federal drug charge.
Michael Martin, 33, was freed on $300,000 bond on the charge of conspiring to manufacture and distribute marijuana.
Federal drug [...]
Lawyers blame arrests on incompetence of guards
Monday, October 8th, 2007Toronto Star, ON
04 Oct 2007
Peter Small
LAWYER CLEARED OF SNEAKING POT INTO DON JAIL
A prominent Toronto lawyer has been cleared of charges that he smuggled marijuana to an inmate in the Don Jail.
Miles O’Reilly, 72, made reasonable inquiries to determine whether packages he handed to an inmate on Feb. 7, 2006, contained only tobacco, as he [...]
Cannabis improves the quality of life for many patients
Monday, October 8th, 2007Wisconsin State Journal, WI
7 Oct 2007
David Wahlberg
MEDICAL MARIJUANA GETS HEAVY SUPPORT
Mary Powers of Madison takes marijuana to relieve nausea caused by AIDS and cancer.
Brian Barnstable of Milwaukee uses it to ease multiple sclerosis pain.
Both patients can get the pot they smoke and bake with on the black market, but they say medical marijuana should be [...]
New initiative may take away patient’s right to grow their own plants
Monday, October 8th, 2007East Oregonian, OR
02 Oct 2007
GROUP DEFENDS MEDICAL MARIJUANA
MAMA Members Speak at BMCC
Alice Ivany still has nightmares about the day she lost her arm.
The horrific accident happened as Ivany operated machinery at a plywood mill in 1977. The men’s gloves she wore were too big for her hands and they were wet.
As she fed lumber [...]
Harper’s new war on drugs just a political gimmick
Monday, October 8th, 2007Daily Gleaner, CN
06 Oct 2007
PM’S ANTI-DRUG PLAN PANNED BY COALITION
VANCOUVER – Critics of the Conservative government’s new anti-drug plan are calling it everything from naive to politically opportunistic and a threat to the civil liberties of Canadians.
A coalition of Vancouver health and social groups says prison terms and attempts to scare users straight won’t solve [...]
McCain remains disinterested in the medicinal properties of cannabis
Monday, October 8th, 2007Chicago Tribune, IL
7 Oct 2007
Steve Chapman
MCCAIN SHOULD KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Through all his years in politics, despite the endless obligation to shake hands, smile for the cameras and coax money out of contributors, John McCain has somehow avoided becoming a complete phony-something that John Edwards and Mitt Romney managed to achieve within a [...]
Patients will suffer under war on drugs political campaign
Monday, October 8th, 2007Montreal Gazette, QU
06 Oct 2007
DRUG STRATEGY WORRIES CRITICS
CanWest News Service – The federal government’s new anti-drug strategy is not winning many friends in Quebec, which arguably has the most liberal attitude to recreational drug use in the country.
The plan, announced Thursday, commits $64 million, two-thirds of which will be spent on treatment and prevention programs, [...]
Ads that say taking drugs is bad will have little impact
Monday, October 8th, 2007Nanaimo News Bulletin, BC
06 Oct 2007
WAR ON DRUGS DOOMED AGAIN
Our Conservative minority government in Ottawa is trotting out another old policy warhorse that will surely please the party’s base voter constituency – yet another war on drugs.
Health Minister Tony Clement’s latest offensive will entail stiffer penalties for drug offenders and more money to stop drugs [...]
Pot arrests based on the colour of your skin
Monday, October 8th, 2007AlterNet, US
05 Oct 2007
Ezekiel Edwards
NYC HAS THE MOST MARIJUANA ARRESTS IN THE WORLD ( BUT DON’T WORRY, WHITE PEOPLE, IT WON’T BE YOU )
With the NYPD facing difficult challenges such as combating terrorism and stopping the flow of illegal handguns into the city, what are the police arresting people for at a rate ten times [...]
Medical marijuana is here to stay, says advocate
Monday, October 8th, 2007The Daily Californian, CA Edu
02 Oct 2007
Sameea Kamal
MEASURE ON MARIJUANA REGULATION BACK ON BALLOT
A measure proposing more oversight of Berkeley medical marijuana dispensaries has been ordered back on the ballot after its narrow rejection in the 2004 election was nullified by a judge in July.
Finalizing a tentative decision she made in July, Alameda County Superior [...]