Archive for November 6th, 2007
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Victoria Times-Colonist, BC
November 06, 2007
Pot-smoking teens function better
A study of more than 5,000 youngsters in Switzerland has found those who smoked marijuana do as well or better in some areas as those who don’t, researchers said Monday.
But the same was not true for those who used both tobacco and marijuana, who tended to be heavier [...]
Sticky workplace issue of employee use of medicinal marijuana
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007The Associated Press
November 6, 2007
By PAUL ELIAS
Calif. Court Considers Marijuana Use
SAN FRANCISCO — When Gary Ross was ordered to take a drug test at his new job, the recently hired computer tech had no doubt the results would come back positive for marijuana.
But along with his urine sample, Ross submitted a doctor’s recommendation that he [...]
23 felony counts each brother faces could result in a max prison sentence of 40 years
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA
05 Nov 2007
Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross
(Relevant part of a longer column)
FEDS GO AFTER WILDLY SUCCESSFUL MEDICAL POT SELLERS
“They’re just a couple of nice kids from Berkeley who wound up being the victims of their own success.”
That’s how lawyer and longtime family friend Harold Rosenthal summed up the case against his clients Winslow [...]
It’s expensive to buy from the government and it is not that great
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Daily Gleaner, NK
01 Nov 2007
Michael Staples
NORTHSIDE MAN WANTS MEDICAL-POT REGULATIONS RELAXED
Rocky Paul has been using medical marijuana to control pain and other discomforts for the last seven years.
The St. Mary’s First Nation resident would like to see the rules eased up a bit so that those who need the drug can get it more easily.
Paul [...]
Patient suffering from the ravages of systemic lupus saga ends in tragedy
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007The Billings Gazette, MT
03 Nov 2007
Tom Daubert
A TRAGIC CASUALTY IN FEDERAL WAR ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA
The nation’s Drug Enforcement Administration agents can sleep a little easier tonight. They now have one less medical-marijuana patient to worry about policing.
That’s because Montana’s leading medical marijuana patient-activist took her own life two weeks ago, a direct result of DEA [...]
Cases in federal court are extremely difficult to defend
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007The Modesto Bee, CA
01 Nov 2007
Susan Herendeen
POT CLINIC TRIAL RESET FOR APRIL
Federal Bar on State Law to Hinder Defense
Two Modesto men who ran a medical marijuana clinic on McHenry Avenue will have a difficult time mounting a defense against federal drug charges if they cannot talk about the pain relief the drug can provide or [...]
Pot and poppies, basically lettuce to professor Facchini
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Calgary Herald, AB
5 Nov 2007
Sean Myers
PROFESSOR’S GRANT GOES TO ‘POT’
A city poppy expert is teaming up with a medicinal marijuana producer in Saskatchewan to develop new health applications for the notorious plants.
University of Calgary biology professor Peter Facchini has received a three-year, $650,000 federal grant to work with plants best known for their illicit derivatives [...]
Granny criminalized for growing her own medicine
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Evening Courier, UK
01 Nov 2007
Colin Drury
CANNABIS MEDICINE GRAN PREPARED TO GO TO PRISON
She Uses Drug to Ease Pain of Muscle Disease
A GRAN who suffers from a muscle disease has vowed to keep growing and smoking cannabis to ease her pain – despite being warned she will be sent straight to prison. Goanita Jacques, 48, was [...]
Or, starting the day with a bhang
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Hindustan Times, India
04 Nov 2007
Anil Sharma
STARTING THE DAY WITH THE CUP THAT KICKS
For some in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand district, the day starts not with a hot cuppa but with a bhang-laced drink made from cannabis.
At six in the morning, people begin slowly trooping into government-run bhang shops in the district for the drink, made from the [...]
Canadian anti-narcotics officer’s sentence stands
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Gulf News, UAE
05 Nov 2007
Bassam Za’za’
COURT CONFIRMS EX-UN ANTI-DRUG OFFICER’S JAIL TERM
Dubai: A Dubai court has issued an irrevocable four-year jail term against a former international adviser with the Poppy Elimination Programme in Afghanistan for possessing 0.6 grammes of hashish for personal use.
The Court of Cassation, which is the highest court in Dubai, found the [...]