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Author: Ron Matus, Times staff writer Date: 24 January 2009 Source: tampabay.com Copyright: 2009 St. Petersburg Times http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/200...y-marijuan.html
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Author: Scott Morgan Date: January 23, 2009 Source: DRCNet Copyright: 2009 Independent Media Institute Alternet They might as well have displayed a link to ONDCP.gov across the screen for an hour. CNBC's Marijuana, Inc. couldn’t have been more sensationalist if John Walters wrote the screenplay and Bill O’Reilly did the interviews. I’m serious, it was that bad. Of course, it’s impossible to know how the casual observer may interpret a propaganda trainwreck such as this, but for me it crossed the threshold of absurdity to the point of almost becoming useful. If one factual concept emerged unscathed from this, it is that there is simply nothing you can do to stop the …
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Examiner.com Asked about medical marijuana on the campaign trail in New Hampshire just a year and a half ago, then-Senator Barack Obama said, "I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources." Admittedly, he's been on the job just a few days, but now-President Obama's administration has just overseen its first medical marijuana raid. It's time for him to live up to his promise and call off the dogs. It's not right to blame the new White House team for the raid in South Lake Tahoe, California. Drug Enforcement Administration officials are still hold-overs from the old administration, with the…
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from voxy news engine voxy.co.nz Friday, 23 January, 2009 - 12:19 Pigs are the same the world over it seems PS Phone No's edited, dont want to make it easy for the dogs out there.
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By Trish Regan Anchor CNBC updated 5:29 p.m. ET Jan. 22, 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28354324/ © 2009 MicrosoftMSN MENDOCINO COUNTY, Calif. - Two hours from San Francisco, Northern California’s Mendocino County is a world away from the urban bustle. At first glance, it’s a picture postcard of the far West. But beneath its beauty lies a controversial, profitable and increasingly violent criminal enterprise. The marijuana trade is an exploding underground industry. Marijuana is being grown in homes, backyards, even in our national parks. Since the 1960s, the so-called Emerald Triangle — Northern California's Mendocino, Humboldt and Trinity counties — has i…
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23/01/2009 1:00:00 AM http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local...ps/1414496.aspx Copyright © 2008. Fairfax Media. A baby playing with a telephone inadvertently called police to his house in western Canada and to his ''very surprised'' father's marijuana-growing operation inside, police say. Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to an emergency call in which the caller hung up without speaking, Constable Janelle Canning said yesterday. Officers entered the White Rock house, near Vancouver, after knocks at the door went unanswered, she said. ''The father was very surprised to see us and insisted he hadn't called police,'' she said. ''The officers then obs…
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Police make marijuana bust in former military underground bunker Date: 22 January 2009 Author: Carly Timmons Source: ABC Copyright: 2009 The E.W. Scripps Co. http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/local/st...8KwTW3DeGQ.cspx
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A baby playing with a telephone inadvertently called police to his house in westernmost Canada and to his "very surprised" father's marijuana-growing operation inside, police say. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police responded to an emergency 911 call in which the caller hung up without saying a word, Constable Janelle Canning told AFP on Wednesday. The officers entered the White Rock residence, after knocks at the door went unanswered, she said. "The father was very surprised to see us and insisted he hadn't called police," she said. "The officers then observed his 11-month-old child playing with a cordless phone, pressing buttons randomly." The mystery caller was…
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South African Airways cabin crew arrested over drugs haul Agence France-Presse January 21, 2009 07:42am FIFTEEN South African Airways cabin crew members have been arrested after 50kg of cannabis was found onboard a flight from Johannesburg to London. A London Heathrow airport customs spokesman said the drugs, worth $322,000, were found by officers of the UK Borders Agency. The drugs were seized by officers of the UK Border Agency, a newly established force set up to control smuggling and illegal immigration. The drugs were discovered in three pieces of baggage, the spokesman said. Those held were both flight crew and cabin crew. HMRC spokesman Bob Gaiger …
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Sheriff Patrick Hedges’ involvement in the Charles C. Lynch medical marijuana case sparks a citizen complaint regarding possible misconduct. Lynch, the former operator of the Morro Bay medical marijuana dispensary, Central Coast Compassionate Caregivers (CCCC), faces up to 100 years in federal prison. Federal Judge George H. Wu scheduled Lynch’s Sentencing for Monday February 23rd 2009 at 8:30 AM SLO County's Sheriff Hedges The complaint alleges Hedges wasted untold amounts of California tax-payers’ money, beginning in March 2006 to present, to subvert California State law in favor of his own political agenda. Stacey Warde, publisher of the Rogue Voice, urges overs…
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A few weeks before Barack Obama was elected president, Mary Beth Buchanan, the U.S. attorney for western Pennsylvania, filed criminal charges against the makers of the Whizzinator, a fake penis used to deliver clean urine for drug tests. The strap-on phallus, which comes in assorted “natural, lifelike skin tones,” is connected by a tube to a hidden bladder containing urine (sold separately) that is untainted by marijuana metabolites. According to its manufacturer, Puck Technology of Signal Hill, California, the Whizzinator is so realistic that “we can’t show you the whole thing,” which is why ads for it in publications such as High Times had to be censored, with a marijua…
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Pot, Postal Service -- A Bad Combination Postal inspectors intercepted and opened a suspicious-looking package that had been mailed from San Diego and was bound for Naperville. A narcotics dealer has been sentenced to six years in prison for his part in mailing a package that contained $80,000 worth of marijuana to an associate's Naperville home. Paul T. DeLong, of southwest suburban Midlothian, was recommended as a candidate for enrollment in the Illinois Department of Corrections' "impact incarceration" program, or boot camp. The recommendation was made as part of DeLong's sentencing Wednesday in DuPage County Circuit Court. He was also ordered to pay $8,100 in f…
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Rationalitate Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Possible Surgeon General Sanjay Gupta's tortured logic on marijuana prohibition Word on the street is that Obama's choice for surgeon general is CNN medical journalist Sanjay Gupta, which is an interesting twist on an otherwise irrelevant cabinet position. The criticism of him on his Wikipedia page ain't too shabby – he's angered The Nation over his healthcare policy coverage and pissed off Michael Moore in his criticism of Sicko. But reading this article that he wrote for Time in 2006 on marijuana legalization makes me doubt the man's competence. Despite the fact that I know he's not an expert on marijuana, either scientifi…
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Denver Post 18 January, 2009 Posted by CODeist2009 The question of is smoking Marihuana dangerous will largely depend on who you ask, where they get their information, the reliability of the information, and whether or not the individual has actually partook of the ‘herb’. Furthermore to what do we compare the alleged dangerousness of this plant; hashish, heroine, cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, tobacco, narcotics or physician prescribed FDA approved medication? The idea that Marijuana is harmful to the health of an individual is based on studies done in the 1960’s and 1970’s. In the book “Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts:” Dr. Lynn Zimmer and John Morgan add…
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Good news from italy...not too much but better tha nothing http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/en..._114319935.html (ANSA) - Rome, January 14 - Italy's top court caused a flap on Wednesday when it said it was OK to grow marijuana as long as people didn't let it get big enough to have any of the drug in it yet. Overturning the conviction of a Marche man caught with 23 small plants in 2003, the Cassation Court said police should only step in when there was a concrete threat. Politicians pounced on the verdict, with Isabella Bertolini of the ruling People of Freedom (PdL) party saying: ''The Cassation judges really seem to be living on another planet. The next t…
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