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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…
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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 …
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A combined operation by local police over the weekend, which saw a team of 14 officers and one police dog check licensed venues and street activity in the Eurobodalla Shire's three main towns, resulted in 10 people being charged on 22 counts for a variety of offences. In Narooma two people at licensed establishments were detected with cannabis in their possession and were subsequently charged with Possession of a Prohibited Substance. Officers from Batemans Bay general duties, the Far South Coast Target Action Group and the Anti theft Unit visited licensed establishments in Batemans Bay, Moruya and Narooma during the operation. Officers are posted at doorways of the…
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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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1PM Sharp outside McDonalds, Myers Center entrance (cnr Elizabeth & Albert st). There will be a few giant chickens hobbling around on crutches and we're hoping for some makeshift (or real???) KFC uniforms for the event! Posters, pamphlets will be provided. Make your own banner if you're keen! Visit http://www.kfccruelty.com for some inspiration! Our numbers are growing, but we need more people to show that Brisbane along with the rest of Australia and the world, will not tollerate unspeakable cruelty to chickens in the name of fast food! Please spread the word! Contact me or Debbie Morris with any questions. I hope to see you there! Karen Nilsen e: karen…
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Medical cannabis users and advocates are lobbying city leaders to increase Berkeley's indoor marijuana plant limit from 10 to 72, which is the amount allowed in Oakland. Advocates say residents with cancer, AIDS, chronic pain, anorexia, glaucoma, migraine headaches and other severe illnesses need more than 10 indoor plants to cultivate marijuana for medical treatment. Berkeley allows 10 indoor and outdoor plants under a March 2001 ordinance that was brokered under political compromise. The Berkeley City Council will consider an increase proposal Tuesday. "It's not unreasonable to have 72 (plants)," said Mayor Tom Bates. "What people have told me is that this is w…
	
						
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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…
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) As police watched, hundreds of people gathered at the University of Colorado this week to smoke marijuana as part of an annual counterculture event organized by the Grateful Dead. A cloud of smoke wafted over Farrand Field just after 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday, April 20. The band organized the first 4/20 celebration in 1979 in San Jose, Calif., where "420" was the local police code for marijuana smoking. Freshman Adam Stroul said Boulder's 4/20 is "famous." "I probably heard about it four years ago," he said. "My buddy's older brother went here and told us about it." The Princeton Review, which named Colorado the nation's No. 1 party school in 2003, …
	
						
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MONROE, N.C. -- Sheriff's deputies in Union County say they discovered nearly $300,000 worth of marijuana growing in house in Marshville. Robert Gregg, 55, and Nancy Taylor, 53, each face four charges. Authorities say a tip led them to a home on Olive Branch Road that had 122 marijuana plants inside. Gregg and Taylor were incarcerated in the Union County Jail and have been released on $10,000 bond, pending a June 1 court appearance. They say the bust represents the fourth indoor growing operation seized in the last five months. Source: WSOCTV.com Eyewitness News
	
						
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POLICE have arrested a 35-year-old NSW south coast man after seizing $120,000 worth of cannabis in a raid on a house at Nowra. A large quantity of dried and drying cannabis along with hydroponic equipment, a firearm and ammunition were found when the police carried out a search warrant about 3am (AEST) yesterday. They arrested a resident, charging him with possession of a prohibited drug and firearms offences. He was granted conditional bail to appear at Nowra Local Court on May 10. Source: The Australian
	
						
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A drug dealer who reported the fact that someone had stolen nearly £1,000 from him but later admitted he had made the money selling drugs will have to do 120-hours of community punishment. Damoun Sabzabadi, 20, of High Road, North Finchley, was sentenced on Friday after pleading guilty to possessing seven bags of cannabis on March 18 at Hendon Magistrates Court. The court heard he made profits of around £500 a week by selling cannabis in nine-ounce bags in a period since July 2003, but denied ever selling drugs to strangers or children. Sabzabadi went to Colindale police station in Grahame Park Way on March 13, saying he had been robbed of £980 in cash. But when h…
	
						
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A winner on the Austrian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? has been arrested after he allegedly invested his prize money in a cannabis farm. The unemployed man from Lower Austria won more than £100,000 on the show last May. But instead of going on a dream holiday or buying his own home, the 29-year-old allegedly decided to build on the small fortune by mass producing cannabis. Together with his girlfriend the man, who has not been named for legal reasons, rented a property in the capital Vienna in which to grow the plants. Police, who caught the Millionaire winner as he made a delivery to a customer, said he had managed to harvest at least ten batches wort…
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Aboriginal leaders will co-operate in identifying traffickers in alcohol, drugs and petrol in South Australia's Anangu Pitjantjatjara lands, the area's new service delivery co-ordinator, Bob Collins, said last night. After talks with a women's council in Alice Springs this week, Mr Collins said he wanted to make the lands safer for those who lived there. About 50 attended the administrative centre of Umuwa last night with stories of social breakdown. "Services on the lands are bogged in the sand up to the axle and I plan to get them unbogged, I can promise you that," Mr Collins told them. The Pitjantjatjara Lands are Australia's oldest self-governing tribal lands. …
	
						
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PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE - PRESS RELEASE http://www.hempembassy.net/hempe/images/know.jpg NIMBIN HEMP EMBASSY 15 APRIL 2004. Nimbin's Twelfth MardiGrass and 'Just Say Know' Cannabis Law Reform Weekend on the 1 and 2 May has already attracted early campers in the village. "MardiGrass is now an international cultural event which is very popular in the backpackers' calendar as well," said Michael Balderstone, spokesperson for the annual Rally. "It is a unique event which suits our unique community. It's an added bonus that it has real purpose and meaning for a lot of people." This year's MardiGrass is tackling the difficult subject of cannabis and mental health …
	
						
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HEAD teachers in British schools will be given new powers to order pupils to undergo random tests for illegal drugs. Prime Minister Tony Blair told Britain's News of the World: "If heads believe they have a problem in their school then they should be able to do random drug testing." Education authorities would be able to take urine samples from pupils and use sniffer dogs to search school grounds for drugs, according to the newspaper. "Guidance will be given to head teachers next month which is going to give them specifically the power to do random drug testing within their schools," Blair told the tabloid. The plans drew a mixed response from opposition politicia…
 
