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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 28, 2004 Medical Marijuana Win Undone by Parliamentary Trick; Committee Vote Thursday HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT -- The medical marijuana bill, H.B. 5355, passed the Connecticut House of Representatives today by a vote of 75 to 71, but a parliamentary maneuver sent the bill back to committee, where its fate is uncertain. Immediately after the bipartisan vote, Rep. Arthur O'Neill (R-Southbury) rose to make a parliamentary inquiry. O'Neill argued that because the bill had a fiscal note, it should go to the Joint Finance Committee. To the shock of patients and other supporters who believed they had won a historic victory, Speaker Moira Lyons…
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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…
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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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PLANS to tighten up the Netherlands’ famously liberal attitude towards cannabis have met with strong resistance by local authorities across the country. The ruling conservative coalition drafted the new tougher drugs policy in the face of evidence showing a sharp increase in the potency of marijuana openly sold in many towns. The prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende’s cabinet proposed to reduce the number of "coffee shops" where marijuana is sold and to ban sales of cannabis to foreign tourists in border areas. For nearly 30 years, small quantities of marijuana and hashish have been sold at coffee shops. Though the practice is tolerated, cannabis remains a cont…
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - It's last orders for foreigners at Dutch coffee shops as the government Friday decided to curb "drugs tourism" and sharpen cannabis policies amid European pressure. A trial will start soon in the southern town of Maastricht, just across the border with both Germany and Belgium, where the sale of soft drugs to foreigners will be banned. "We want to end all aspects of drugs tourism, the fact that people come to the Netherlands to use soft drugs or to take them home," said Justice Ministry spokesman Wim Kok. The liberal Dutch laws on soft drugs, whose use is not allowed but condoned in a tacit acknowledgment that there are insufficient police t…
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41% Of Students Admit Using Pot
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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…
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Suspected Arson Attack At Bc Marijuana Party Hq
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http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2648.html "Hopefully, there will be video to come.... A major Fire has wiped out vancouver's famous Pot Block, Blunt bros., Burnt, BC Marijuana Party, Pot TV, the Urban Shaman suffer major Smoke and Water damage. Due to the nature of Marc's bussiness, he is basically unisnurable, if you have enjoyed Pot TV over the years and suport the incredible work the BC marijuana Party has been doing, nowmore than ever before we need your support, the PayPal button is there, give as much as you can if you want to see the battle for freedom continue here in Canada at this pivotal time!" http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/show...…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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