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FEDERAL COURTS PROTECT MEDICAL MARIJUANA On April 21, U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel issued a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from raiding or prosecuting a medical marijuana cooperative in California. This historic action is just the latest in a series of decisions in which federal courts have shown great skepticism toward federal attacks on state medical marijuana laws. These federal court actions have particular significance here in Vermont, where officials, including Gov. James Douglas, have claimed that federal hostility prevents the state from protecting medical marijuana patients from arrest. Judge Fogel's injunction, protec…

UK - 26 April 2004 Hi-tech drug testing blitz Safer Neighbourhoods officers from Edmonton Green are planning to utilise the latest drug-testing technology in an initiative designed to rid their ward of drugs. Following discussions with local businesses and residents, Edmonton Green's new Safer Neighbourhoods team will be targeting vehicles travelling through the ward and the surrounding borough of Enfield. They plan to tackle drug use in the area by unveiling a high-tech machine that can accurately detect even the slightest trace of drugs. The team, who were introduced to Edmonton Green at the beginning of April, intend to stop vehicles as they drive through th…

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Source. 41 percent of students say they have used marijuana despite negative side effects linked to the drug and students are beginning to compare smoking weed to drinking beer or smoking cigarettes, causing the illegal substance to become more accepted in the residential community, several students said. http://www.cannabisnews.com/images/cannabisicon.gif Posted by CN Staff on April 24, 2004 at 18:32:00 PT By Ben Sweet Source: Vanderbilt Hustler Marijuana or THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) as those who know it best, is rapidly becoming the most popular substance in use. Only tobacco and alcohol rival it on Vanderbilt’s campus, and according to the National Hou…

channel 10 news a 39 yr old hurstville women was arrested at her home after a raid on her premises. approx 180 plants of different sizes were found, along with growing equipment and approx 10 kgs of drying buds

High Times magazine at 30 PRO-POT MAGAZINE'S EDITOR BUMS OUT SOME READERS WITH NEW EDITORIAL POLICY By Peter Carlson Washington Post Man, the news from Iraq is, like, a major bummer. Read the mainstream press and all you get is bombings, murders, uprisings, riots and hostages. Fortunately, one publication dares to print the news that won't kill your buzz. That publication is High Times, the marijuana magazine now celebrating its 30th anniversary. And the news is this: There's plenty of weed in the new liberated Iraq. Bombed in Baghdad ``There are few laws in Iraq right now,'' writes Dave Enders, High Times' man in Baghdad, ``so although drug possession was…

The state Supreme Court ruled unanimously that drug charges against four San Diego medical marijuana activists were properly dismissed by a Superior Court judge in 2001, it was reported Friday. Source. KFMB.COM -- Channel 8 San Diego, April 23, 2004 -- "SUPREME COURT SUPPORTS JUDGE ON DISMISSED MARIJUANA CHARGES" (04-23-2004) Thursday's ruling ends the case against clinic owner Carolyn Konow and her son, Steve Rohr, and workers Amy Toosley and Daniel O'Neal, The San Diego Union Tribune. They had faced drug possession and drug sales charges. While the case centered on the activities of a now-defunct Hillcrest medical marijuana clinic, the justices wrestled more …

Leave Medical Marijuana Group Alone, Judge Tells Government By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: April 22, 2004 AN FRANCISCO, April 21 (AP) — A judge ordered the federal government on Wednesday not to raid or prosecute a California group that grows and distributes marijuana for its sick members. The decision, by Judge Jeremy Fogel of Federal District Court in San Jose, was the first interpretation of an appeals court's ruling in December that federal prosecutions of medical marijuana users were unconstitutional if the marijuana was not sold, transported across state lines or used for nonmedicinal purposes. Advertisement Nine states, including California, allo…

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Jump in legal-drug overdoses By Carol Nader April 23, 2004 Page Tools Email to a friend Printer format The number of people being treated by ambulance for overdosing on legal drugs has jumped by almost 30 per cent, figures show. Ambulances were called for more than 11,000 incidents of non-fatal overdoses of prescription or over-the-counter drugs in Melbourne in the two years to September 2003, up almost 2500 on the previous two years. The numbers are much greater than overdoses of illicit drugs - 1530, excluding heroin - which ambulances attended. Ambulances went to about 1400 heroin overdoses, and 6035 incidents of alcohol-related harm. Women accounted for alm…