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Jack Herer Suffers Heart Attack Sunday, 13 September 2009 10:57 The much beloved "Emperor of Hemp" Jack Herer collapsed backstage yesterday at Hempstalk 2009 in Portland after giving a speech. He was rushed to the hospital and underwent heart surgery. Herer, the author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, suffered a stroke and heart attack in 2000 at another Oregon event. He has recovered over the years, though the 70-year-old activist speaks with a stutter and walks with a limp. Just minutes before his speech, Herer looked fit and said, "I'm getting better and better and better. I'm healthier than I've been..." Herer's currently at Emanuel Trauma Center in Port…

Hey Hey people I am excited !! I have already had confirmation that an article will appear late next week on this site about the Rally .... http://www.altmedia.net.au/. If or when I hear of other articles I will post them in here If you see or hear of any articles please post the details here for others to read Thanks

The SMH published this bit of bent news today: This article is only half true. Dr Arnold fails to note the fact that the body does not store actual d9-THC in body fat. Only THC metabolites are stored in body fats. THC metabolites are NOT psychoactive. Even if Arnold's assertion is true (and it probably is) that physical exercise or food deprivation causing the body to draw on stored fat for energy causes THC metabolites present in fat to be released into the bloodstream, the subject will not become re-intoxicated. To assert so, as Arnold does here: is so silly that it makes me wonder if Arnold has enjoyed a spliff over the weekend and had spent Monday morning…

By Stephen Gutwillig Los Angeles Times The Times' Aug. 30 article, "Marijuana’s new high life," does a great job describing the cultural mainstreaming of marijuana. Pot is indeed flourishing in "civilized society" as never before, and the movement to end decades of failed prohibition has picked up unprecedented momentum. But that debate has largely ignored the people most impacted by our current policies -- the rising number of people, particularly young people of color, arrested on marijuana charges each year. According to the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ), the arrest rate for all offenses in California sank by 40% from 1990 to 2008, with arrests for…

Author: Tim Brunero Date: 1 September 2009 Source: LiveNews.com

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england...don/8242948.stm I wonder how often this shit happens? more than anyone likes to admit I bet Kudos to the dude for taping the dodgy scumbags

Fernando Henrique Cardoso urges global shift towards decriminalising cannabis use and promoting harm reduction The war on drugs has failed and should make way for a global shift towards decriminalising cannabis use and promoting harm reduction, says the former president of Brazil, writing today in the Observer. Fernando Henrique Cardoso argues that the hardline approach has brought "disastrous" consequences for Latin America, which has been the frontline in the war on drug cultivation for decades, while failing to change the continent's position as the largest exporter of cocaine and marijuana. His intervention, which will reignite growing debate in Europe about how t…

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25922995-29277,00.html Police net 8kg of dope during breath test A MAN pulled over for a roadside breath-test in rural NSW has been charged after police allegedly found eight kilograms of cannabis in his car. Officers stopped a Ford Falcon station wagon on the Sturt Highway at Gol Gol, near Dubbo, about 12.25am this morning, police said. The driver, a 39-year-old Dubbo man, returned a negative breath test, but police detected a strong smell of cannabis in his car. "During a search of the vehicle police will allege they located nearly eight kilograms of cannabis leaf with an estimated potential street value of approximately $6…

By Kimi Yoshino and Richard Winton August 27, 2009 | 11:22 p.m. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ja...0,1554430.story Los Angeles Times, 202 West 1st Street, Los Angeles, California, 90012 | Copyright 2009 The discovery prompted investigators to search the pop star's mansion for heroin-related equipment. But lab tests found no marijuana, cocaine or heroin in Jackson's system. Rotting marijuana that Michael Jackson's family members mistook for heroin briefly caused detectives to look for further evidence of the illegal drug in the pop star's rented residence during the frenzied 48 hours after his death, according to sources close to the investigation. Family…

Author: JESSE McKINLEY Date: August 21, 2009 Source: The New York Times Copyright: © 2009 The New York Times Company In California Forests, Marijuana Growers Thrive SAN FRANCISCO — Lt. Sonny LeGault and 11 other officers from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department woke before dawn one recent morning, hiked three miles through the woods and just missed the apparently hungry men they had hoped to arrest. “They’d been cooking breakfast: there were a couple of quails dressed out, and a soup going,” Lieutenant LeGault said. “But they were gone.” Those the officers had been hunting were workers at one of the scores of remote, highly organized outdoor mar…