Archive for December 7th, 2007
Fed tax money used to arrest people doing what is legally permissible under state law
Friday, December 7th, 2007Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, CA
06 Dec 2007
Will Bigham
MEDICAL POT ACTIVIST ENTERS NOT-GUILTY PLEA
RANCHO CUCAMONGA – When Lanny Swerdlow decided to attend a meeting in October of the Inland Valley Drug Free Community Coalition, he intended to hear the group’s message and pass out fliers in support of medical marijuana.
Instead, the activist ended up in the [...]
Ottawa still on their high horse, unable to see the real facts
Friday, December 7th, 2007Chronicle Herald, NS
06 Dec 2007
Jered Stuffco
MEDICAL POT USERS WANT RESTRICTIONS LIFTED
Ottawa-Approved Grass Doesn’t Ease Symptoms Like Street Drugs – Patients
TORONTO – Lawyers for Canadian users of medical marijuana who want Ottawa to ease restrictions on where they get their drugs wrapped up their case Wednesday by telling a Federal Court judge that government-approved pot doesn’t [...]
US drug laws are insidious; they aim purposely at blacks
Friday, December 7th, 2007East Texas Review, TX
05 Dec 2007
William A. Collins
DRUGS, THE OTHER STUPID WAR
Blacks with drugs, Do make me gloat; ‘Cause once in jail, They’ll never vote.
Every country relishes its own destructive obsessions. Japan, for example, craves whale meat; France tortures geese to improve the flavor of their livers; Zimbabwe and Myanmar just torture people; certain African [...]
Arrests for marijuana out of control (serious crime continues to run rampant)
Friday, December 7th, 2007The Daily Utah Chronicle, UT Edu
5 Dec 2007
David Servatius
BIG PHARMA DOESN’T WANT TO LEGALIZE
Policy on Marijuania Is Hypocritical
Allow me to present Exhibit A in the case of Common Sense V. The United States of America.
Somewhere in this country, a man is sitting in a prison cell, wasting away. This man lived a normal middle-class American [...]
DEA puts the heat on landlords
Friday, December 7th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle, CA
05 Dec 2007
Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross
DEA MOVES TO PULL POT OUT FROM UNDER SAN FRANCISCO LANDLORDS
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is pushing to close San Francisco’s cannabis clubs by turning its guns on their landlords – warning them that renting to pot dispensaries could cost them their buildings.
The agency intends to send [...]
Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy wins votes
Friday, December 7th, 2007Boston Globe, MA
5 Dec 2007
BID TO MAKE POT A CIVIL OFFENSE ADVANCES
A campaign to replace criminal penalties for marijuana possession with civil penalties took the next step in reaching the 2008 statewide ballot yesterday, with supporters bringing boxes of signatures to Secretary of State William Galvin’s office. Election officials now must review the signatures, validated [...]
Police did not obey the law – let seized medicinal plants die
Friday, December 7th, 2007Fort Collins Coloradoan, CO
04 Dec 2007
Sara Reed
COMPENSATION SOUGHT FOR DEAD POT PLANTS
Couple Says Law Requires Medical Marijuana Be Maintained
It took 16 months, but a Fort Collins couple Monday finally retrieved the medical marijuana seized from their home in August 2006. But the battle is far from over.
The cultivation and possession charges against James and Lisa [...]
Even cannabis flavour is now illegal in the UK
Friday, December 7th, 2007Morning Advertiser, UK
4 Dec 2007
CANNABIS FLAVOURED DRINKS BANNED
A range of cannabis-flavoured drinks have been banned by drinks watchdog Portman Group for their illicit drug connection.
Perigan’s Cannabis-Flavoured Gin, Iganoff Cannabis-Flavoured Vodka and Rodnik’s Cannabis-Flavoured Absinthe – all produced by Beveland SA – were found to breach the Portman’s Code of Practice on the Naming, Packaging and [...]
Give the man back his weed, says California court
Friday, December 7th, 2007Los Angeles Times, CA
4 Dec 2007
WACKY TABACKY CASE
Garden Grove police are ordered to return a suspect’s marijuana. But the ruling is not as strange as it sounds.
There’s no denying that it sounds wacky: The California Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court decision ordering the police to give back the marijuana seized from a [...]
Plants were returned – dead
Friday, December 7th, 2007Fort Collins Coloradoan, CO
03 Dec 2007
Sara Reed
FORT COLLINS COUPLE GETS MARIJUANA PLANTS BACK, BUT THEY’RE DEAD
After a prolonged legal battle, a Fort Collins couple today finally retrieved the medical marijuana seized from their home in August 2006, but the plants were dead.
The cultivation and possession charges against James and Lisa Masters, medical marijuana patients and [...]