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From one of the List serves I belong to in Canada.. Check this out... Love and a Squish, Alison xx ***************************************************************** Good Morning All, The US Dept. of Justice will announce Sunday (10/23) at 4:30pm their new report on Prisoners in 2004. The news release is at the bottom of this email. An advance copy of the full report is at http://www.csdp.org/research/p04.pdf The feds only put out the news release late Friday, it's officially embargoed until 4:30pm on Sunday. So please spread it far and wide :-) Some key figures from this year's report: State Prison Inmates in 2002: 21.4% were drug offenders --…
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WEST HAVEN, Conn. -- It might have been the biggest pot bust in West Haven history, but the case against three Vietnamese immigrants has fallen apart because of questions about a search. The three were arrested in December 2003 after officers allegedly found $4 million worth of marijuana growing in their homes. But prosecutors on Thursday dismissed all charges against Meng Le, 51, and accepted pleas to reduced charges from Thu Dang, 43, and her husband, Tam Ha, 31. Milford Superior Court Judge John J. Ronan said police testimony raised serious questions about whether Dang and Le consented to have their homes searched. Police testified that they asked to search…
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Cannabis smoke less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke Category: Alcohol/Addiction/Illegal Drugs News Article Date: 19 Oct 2005 Cannabis smoke is not as carcinogenic as tobacco smoke. In a review article published today in Harm Reduction Journal, Dr. Melamede from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA, writes that although cannabis smoke and tobacco smoke are chemically very similar, evidence suggests that their effects are very different and that cannabis smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke. The pharmacological effects of tobacco and cannabis smoke differ in many ways, mainly because tobacco smoke contains nicotine while cannabis smoke contains te…
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Author: Bonanza News Service (no byline) Date: 7 oct 2005 Source: North Lake Tahoe Bonanza (Nevada USA) Copyright:© 2005 tahoebonanza.com Link: article link Medical marijuana users find out how big their gardens need to grow Bonanza News Service October 7, 2005 Confused about whether your medical marijuana garden is legal? Just call the authorities. Those who grow marijuana in Nevada County - with a doctor's recommendation - can contact the sheriff's office Narcotics Task Force to make sure their gardens aren't producing more than the county allows, Lt. Ron Smith said Friday. "They can call us and we can let them know if they're within guidelines and get it stra…
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FBI may relax hiring policy on drug use
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Guess this proves what we've known all along. Previous periodical MJ use doesn't affect the ability and performance of talented indivuals in the least. http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/10/09/fbi.m...a.ap/index.html
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Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's marijuana dealers are converting suburban homes and abandoned warehouses into pot farms, creating a C$10 billion ($8.5 billion) market that's three times the size of the nation's biggest legal crop, wheat. Cities such as Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto may each have as many as 20,000 pot factories according to some estimates, said Rich Baylin, former national coordinator for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Cultivation is rising because penalties are often one-eighth those in the U.S., and Canadians' acceptance of pot has risen. ``This is a scourge on our communities and a danger to our children,'' Liberal Party lawmaker Jim Karygi…
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Author: CAMILLE BAINS Date: 30 September 2005 Source: The Globe and Mail (.com) link to article Copyright:© Copyright 2005 Bell Globemedia Publishing Inc. Pot activist to face charges in Canada Private citizen hopes his legal move will prevent Emery's extradition to U.S. By CAMILLE BAINS Friday, September 30, 2005 Page S3 Canadian Press VANCOUVER -- A private citizen says he is filing charges today against pot activist Marc Emery and two of his associates, partly because that will throw a wrench into U.S. plans to extradite them to face drug charges in that country. "If he gets charged in Canada that will have major legal consequences for that extradition request,…
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A HUSBAND who grows cannabis to treat his sick wife is waiting to hear whether he will be prosecuted for drug dealing following a police raid on his home. Sixty-year-old Alan Blythe opened his door on Friday morning to find six uniformed police officers on the step with a warrant to search his home. The police were acting on a tipoff that Mr Blythe was growing cannabis at his bungalow in Badger Close, Palacefields, but the warrant was unnecessary as the taxi driver immediately handed over his stash of cannabis plants. The raid was the fourth time in a decade that Mr Blythe has been arrested for growing the drug which he says is the only thing to provide relief fr…
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Cannabis Culture Warning above is a link to cannabis culture's warning about the DEA and marc emery being busted....aparently the DEA is stealing mail, putting their own letter inside and sending it off to the person who was meant to get seeds :thumbdown the letters basically say that to recieve your original order + 20 free seeds, you must send them $50 or $100 using identifiable means and the money is being sent to different names in vancouver its a scary ass read and i strongly recommend having a look if you intend on ordering seeds online as cannabis culture thinks this is only the beginning
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As US politicians crack down on the sale of marijuana-flavoured lollipops, another debate is raging between their manufacturers and hemp product advocates over what is in the candy. Hemp advocates say the candy makers aren't being honest about what's in their confection and that publicity is hurting the sale of legal hemp products, made from a variety of the cannabis plant. California-based Chronic Candy advertises that every lick of its candy is "like taking a hit". The company, though, says the candies contain only hemp oil, a common ingredient in health food, beauty supplies and other household products. "There is nothing illegal in our ingredients and they are…
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The drug that gives smokers the munchies could also suppress hunger Scientists have unveiled an unlikely weapon in the battle against the bulge: cannabis. More specifically, one of its key ingredients, which has been found to suppress appetite. Anyone who has ever inhaled will know the feeling: an inescapable desire to eat everything in sight, a state called the munchies. It stems from the action of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), one of the active ingredients in cannabis, on specific appetite-control receptors in the brain. The chemical also causes the body to lay down more fat. But Roger Pertwee, a neuropharmacologist at Aberdeen University, said yesterday at the Briti…
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ART Garfunkel has been charged with cannabis possession after his car was stopped by police. The drug was found in his limousine's ashtray when an officer smelt it. The 63-year-old singer pleaded guilty to the same offence last year and was fined £110. Garfunkel was stopped after driving through a red light in Woodstock, New York state, said police. He had been stopped for speeding nearby in January 2004 when officers found cannabis in his jacket pocket. Garfunkel had a string of huge hits in the 60s in a duo with Paul Simon. Author:www.mirror.co.uk Date:31 August 2005 Source:www.mirror.co.uk Copyright:www.mirror.co.uk
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Hi All, I'd like to ask you lot over the pond from us to check out the following links and organize whatever support you feel able. http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=2001 http://thc4ms.org/index2.php?mu=whtml&lw=&lf=jpg http://www.uk420.com/boards/index.php?showtopic=45120 There's plenty more out there on this case, please circulate and help THC4MS and the patients they help. The battle we have against what is a beneficial plant to mankind is an international one and your support would be appreciated over here in in the UK in whatever way possible.. Highest regards, Skuffy.
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Emery, Jailed 'Prince of Pot' He's portrayed as a greedy kook, but I know a true crusader. By Brian Preston It’s a strange feeling to dig out something you wrote years ago and read it with fresh eyes. I’m looking at a story from Rolling Stone, April 1998, called Vancouver’s Pot Experiment. “In the Nineties,” I wrote, “Vancouver has been home to a thriving community of marijuana activists—idealistic hippies who believe in hemp’s power to save the world. But it took the arrival of Marc Emery, a bluff, energetic entrepreneur with a history of getting involved in hot button issues, to push Vancouver into its new incarnation: “Vansterdam.” The editors at Rolling Stone ad…
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Psytopia a 7 day psychedelic festival& Fundraiser. Yahoo News picked up a story about Psytopia and what it's about. Please if you can visit the link and vote for the story to assist in helping the charities. Psytopia is a 7 day psychedelic festival & Fundraiser consisting of many notable bands and speakers. Yahoo News picked up a story about Psytopia and what it's about. Please if you can visit the link and vote for the story to assist in helping the charities. Drawing attention to events like this helps us all take a step forwards getting global acceptance and opens the doors a bit wider for law reform.
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