Archive for October 10th, 2007
Athlete penalized for smoking pot
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007The Associated Press
October 9, 2007
Bengals CB Joseph Suspended for One Game
CINCINNATI — The NFL has suspended starting cornerback Johnathan Joseph for Sunday’s game at Kansas City, the Cincinnati Bengals said Tuesday.
Joseph will forfeit his salary for both this game and the Jets game on Oct. 21, the club said. He was suspended for violating the [...]
Hemp is the only biomass resource capable of making America energy independent
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007The News Record, OH Edu
08 Oct 2007
Ian Haines
HEMP A CHEAP ALTERNATIVE TO FOSSIL FUELS
Industrialized Hemp Would Alleviate Oil Dependency, Raise Farm Profit
With an election just around the corner in 2008 we as young Americans are most concerned with our futures as well as the next generation. Hot topics on Capitol Hill are global warming, [...]
Cop grows his own
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007The Chronicle-Journal, ON
05 Oct 2007
COP SUSPENDED AFTER POT BUST
A Nipigon provincial police officer has been suspended following the seizure of more than $6,000 worth of marijuana in a bust at a Nipigon-area residence early Friday.
OPP said Thunder Bay detachment drug enforcement section officers executed a search warrant at the home and during the search seized [...]
Alabama’s prison merry-go-round
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007The Tuscaloosa News, AL
07 Oct 2007
Ronald Fraser
STIFF DRUG LAWS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD
Alabama’s prison system is like an out-of-control carousel. In 2005, for example, 9,700 new inmates got onboard just as 10,400 parolees stepped off and headed for home — up from 3,400 in 1980. Alabama towns and cities are struggling to [...]
Police arrest one American every 38 seconds on marijuana charges
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007AlterNet, US Web
09 Oct 2007
Rob Kampia
THE WAR ON POT: AMERICA’S $42 BILLION ANNUAL BOONDOGGLE
What else could we spend $42 billion each year on? Health insurance for kids? Better paid teachers? It’s our choice.
What would you buy if you had an extra $42 billion to spend every year? What might our government buy if it suddenly [...]
Old Conservative standby of mandatory minimum sentences dusted off for unspecified drug crimes
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Edmonton Journal, AB
9 Oct 2007
TORIES TALK LOUDLY, CARRY SMALL STICK IN DRUG INITIATIVE
Still not two years on the job, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has yet to reach Jean Chretien’s skill at the politics of “let’s not and say we did.”
Indeed, he may never equal the master’s Kyoto masterpiece, in which the former Liberal government took [...]
The Broncos going to pot
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Denver Post, CO
08 Oct 2007
Mark Kiszla
OH, HENRY: YOU SHOULD BE A SHORT STORY
Hey, Travis Henry. Rolling a blunt might be the lone way bummed-out Broncomaniacs can kill the pain of San Diego 41, Denver 3. Know where your fans can score some marijuana?
Yanking up jeans after the worst home loss by the local [...]
Escalation serious and devastating both to state law and seriously ill patients in California
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Contra Costa Times, CA
07 Oct 2007
Michael Manekin
ADVOCATES DECRY MEDICAL MARIJUANA RAIDS
DEA Hurting Most Vulnerable Patients With Escalated Attack on State’s Laws, Activists Say
OAKLAND — The raid of a large Oakland-based manufacturer of cannabis-laced candy last month was deemed by the federal government as a timely victory in the war on drugs.
With Halloween only weeks away, [...]
People who lose out are those who genuinely need marijuana for medical purposes
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Daily Forty-Niner, CA Edu
08 Oct 2007
Stephen Sabetti
EXPERIENCE AT COSTCO SIMILAR TO MARIJUANA RAIDS
Have you ever been to Costco? I’m sure you have, so I’m sure you know that they make you show ID at the door, since they don’t let just anybody in. If you’ve got it, you’re free to roam a practical person’s [...]
300 people march to the Capitol
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Badger Herald, WI Edu
08 Oct 2007
Carolyn Potts
MARCHERS PRESS FOR LEGAL MARIJUANA
Nearly 300 people gathered on Library Mall this weekend for the 2007 Great Midwest Marijuana Harvest Festival and parade to the Capitol.
Harvest Fest has been put on by the Madison chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws for the past 37 [...]