Archive for April 6th, 2008
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008Tue, 1 Apr 2008
New York Times (NY)
Timothy Egan
FRESH IDEAS FOR A TIRED CRUSADE
The travel writer and public television host, Rick Steves, is a certain kind of innocent abroad – benignly suburban to the core, with a bit of a paunch and the ever-quizzical look of someone who would try raw squid for breakfast and not [...]
Justice is not blind in the case of Marc Emery
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Mon, 31 Mar 2008
National Post (Canada)
MARC EMERY SHOULD NOT BE EXTRADITED
This editorial board has more than once presented its strongest moral case for the Canadian government to block the extradition of Marc Emery, the West Coast marijuana advocate who faces a possible life sentence south of the border for operating a mail-order seed business out [...]
Uganda: One district had over 48 acres of cannabis
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Thu, 27 Mar 2008
Monitor, The (Uganda)
Evelyn Lirrri & Jane Nafula
COUNTRY LEADS IN MARIJUANA
Uganda Leads In Marijuana Growing
KAMPALA — UGANDA is East Africa’s biggest producer of the Cannabis plant, commonly known as Marijuana, the head of the Anti Narcotics Unit at the Criminal Investigations Department said yesterday.
Speaking at a meeting organized by the Ministry of Health [...]
Conservative government makes an example with Marc Emery
Sunday, April 6th, 2008Sat, 29 Mar 2008
London Free Press (CN ON)
Greg Joyce
EMERY PLEA NIXED
VANCOUVER – Former Londoner Marc Emery, British Columbia’s self-proclaimed “prince of pot,” says the Canadian government has nixed a plea bargain with U.S. authorities that would have meant five years in prison.
Emery is charged in the U.S. with selling seeds over the Internet.
He said yesterday [...]