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Cheech & Chong Higher Than Martin Scorsese By Angela Watercutter September 04, 2008 Underwire ...Wired Blog Network http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/09/cheech-chong-hi.html Web traffic numbers are boring. Unless, of course, they can be used to lord over one's opponent ("More unique users on Tuesdays than 4chan!"). Which means, now that Cheech & Chong's MySpace profile has gotten more adds in 24 hours than Martin Scorsese's did, well, it's time to take notice. The classic counterculture comedians signed up well over 100,000 "friends" in the first day following the relaunch of their page to promote a new tour, according to the social networking site. What …
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Cannabis Doctor Fights Back PR Cannazine 4 September 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/600/27/ A practising doctor who was secretly investigated over his medical cannabis recommendations for patients has sued state and local law enforcement officials. Dr. Alfonso Jimenez, a licensed osteopath, is accusing the San Diego and Laguna Beach police departments, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and others of conspiring to entrap him, in violation of a federal injunction against investigating doctors who recommend cannabis “based on a sincere medical judgment.” Jimenez says local authorities posed as patients in his San Diego medical office in May 2006, then wor…
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Heard this the other day thought it would be interesting to read more on it (boy was i wrong) Amy Winehouse's (or Winey Drughorse as i affectiantly call her) excessive drug consumption, with one binge after the next, has left doctor with dears that she could be brain damaged. The troubled ‘Rehab’ singer indulged in a 36-hour pot smoking session in July this year, which left her vomiting uncontrollably and hallucinating. Medics also warned the hellraiser will die if she has another drug binge and worried she would break bones during a fit, which a friend said was “like something from ‘The Exorcist’” - the infamous horror movie in which then-child actress Linda B…
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EXPERT TESTIFIES CANNABIS HELPS SLOW AGING Fri, 2 May 2008 Media Awareness Project URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n458/a05.html Holy Smoke Trial: University Professor Brought in to Help Prove Case for Defense in Drug Trafficking Trial B.C. Provincial Court heard Thursday that cannabis is safer than aspirin and can restore the balance in people's bodies to help fight illness. That was the testimony of Dr. Robert Melamede, an associate professor at the University of Colorado, who was brought in by the defense team for the four men accused in the Holy Smoke Culture Shop drug trafficking case taking place in Nelson this week. Melamede's testimony comes …
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Catholic priest claims cannabis field in backyard a gift from God! Thaindian News 30 August 2008 <http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/catholic-priest-claims-cannabis-field-in-backyard-a-gift-from-god_10090372.html> A catholic priest, who claims that his back yard full of cannabis plants is a gift from God, has been placed under constant surveillance by police. Father Cyril Papudov, of Petrich, Bulgaria, has been arrested seven times but police have never caught him actually cultivating the crop. He insists that the cannabis seeded by itself and is part of God’’s gift of nature and nothing to do with him. There has been a great deal of suspicion ov…
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Hey everyone... Here's my latest. Hope you enjoy! Please pass it on... Love and a squish, Alison xx #1 Alison Myrden Senior Member Alison Myrden's Avatar Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 466 Alison Myrden is on a distinguished road Podcast:: Alison Myrden & John Doe Radio - USA John Doe Radio Volume 3 Show 9 http://www.weedwatch.com/ icon for podpress John Doe Radio Volume 3 Show 9 [41:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (3252) This week on JDR! We talk with Alison Myrden from The Medical Marijuana Mission and L.E.A.P. (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition), NORML News, and The Stash. Featuring m…
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The potency of cannabis gathered in police seizures has dropped, new official data reveals, casting doubt on one of the government's key arguments for reclassifying the drug from class C to class B. Figures collected by the Forensic Science Service and seen by guardian.co.uk show that the potency of herbal cannabis, which includes the strong "skunk" strain, has dropped from 12.7% to 9.5% since 2004, when it was first moved from class B to the less serious class C. This means that samples collected by the police are now weaker than when David Blunkett, the then-home secretary, downgraded the drug in 2004. According to the figures the level of THC - the main psychoact…
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date: August 26, 2008 source: cbcnews.ca There were 23 green houses in total and would have produced an estimated 2.5 million joints..... Full Story here http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/...-grow-bust.html
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Cannabis legalisation: Will Poland be next? 23 August 2008 PRCannazine News http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/554/27/ According to Polish Radio, a campaign to loosen the marijuana laws is underway in Poland. A petition to the Ministry of Justice requesting the legalization of marijuana for personal use has already been signed by hundreds of people, including drug rehab specialists and members of Monar, a nonprofit group that works with addicts, the HIV/AIDS positive, and the homeless. Now, would-be legalizers are trying a new tack: direct contact with members of parliament (MPs). "Cannabis canvassers" recruited via the Internet have been paying visits to po…
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Feature: Seattle's Hempfest Again Draws Multitudes in Celebration of Cannabis Culture Drug War Chronicle, Issue #548, 8/22/08 <http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/548/seattle_hempfest_2008> Last Saturday and Sunday, Seattle's Myrtle Edwards Park, a mile-long strip of land fronting Puget Sound just north of downtown, once again played host to the Seattle Hempfest. And once again, the Hempfest lived up to its reputation as the world's largest marijuana "protestival." With a core staff of around a hundred, led by the indefatigable Vivian McPeak, and about a thousand volunteers who worked to set up the event, keep it running smoothly, and tear it all down at the …
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Switzerland backs the legalisation of cannabis Malcolm Curtis http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/542/27/ 20 August 2008 Germany, Austria and Italy have all passed legislation decriminalising the use of varying degree's of cannabis use, and Switzerland looks set to follow suit in November 2008. Four federal parties have rallied in support of an initiative to replace a ban on cannabis use for adults, while strictly enforcing its prohibition for those under 18. Swiss voters are set to vote on the issue, rejected by parliament four years ago, in a November 2008 referendum. A coalition of federal Swiss political parties of various stripes has renewed a bid to …
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Cannabis clubs in Spain legal - Belgium forms 1st club recently PR Cannazine 18 August 2008 http://pr.cannazine.co.uk/content/view/531/27/ Recently several charitable "cannabis clubs" were founded in Spain. The lawfulness of which are now confirmed, and sanctioned by courts in Catalonia and the Basque region. People join the cannabis clubs to grow cannabis together and distribute it to members of the club at cost price. Only members have access to the growing rooms and the cannabis. In Spain trade with cannabis is prohibited, but possession for personal use is legal. Its a European Dis-Union so far as cannabis is concerned. In Spain you may grow your own su…
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Still No Right to Holy Smoke Jacob Sullum August 11, 2008, 4:32pm reason ... free minds and free markets http://reason.com/blog/show/128038.html Church of Cognizance founders Dan and Mary Quaintance, whose case I discussed in my June 2007 reason story about religious use of drugs, are scheduled to be tried in Albuquerque this month on federal marijuana charges. The Quaintances, who were caught near Lordsburg, New Mexico, in 2006 with 172 pounds of marijuana, tried to get the charges against them dismissed by arguing that prosecuting them for possessing cannabis, their church's sacrament, violates the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). A federal judge…
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Former anti-marijuana lobbyist switches sides By Mike Soraghan Posted: 08/14/08 11:51 AM [ET] The Hill http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/former...2008-08-14.html The last time the House debated medical marijuana, David Krahl trod the halls of Capitol Hill lobbying against the legislation as deputy director of the Drug Free America Foundation. Now, he’s ready to lobby for allowing medicinal use of marijuana, and do anything he can to support it. So far, no one has asked him for help, but in a recent letter to medical marijuana bill sponsor Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.), he proclaimed that he’d reversed his position on whether cannabis can be a medicine. …
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