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Clash on Medical Marijuana Puts a Grower in U.S. Court By DEAN E. MURPHY AKLAND, Calif., Jan. 20 — As a marijuana celebrity, Ed Rosenthal has been on a career roll. The author of a dozen cannabis self-help books and a magazine advice column, "Ask Ed," Mr. Rosenthal is the pothead's answer to Ann Landers, Judge Judy, Martha Stewart and the Burpee Garden Wizard all in one. Advertisement Can't get rid of the powdery mildew on your cannabis seedling? Try a 20 percent skim-milk solution. The feds got you in court on charges of cultivation? Challenge their crop yield estimates. Want a high without the harmful tar? Use a pipe that vaporizes it. Mr. Rosent…
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Ottawa — Recipe for Reefer Madness. Take: One rookie justice minister who wants to decriminalize simple pot possession. Toss in: Several court rulings that Ottawa must allow medical use and possession of pot. Spike with: Two lower-court acquittals (and counting) of recreational pot smokers by judges who say the law is no longer valid. Bake: At low heat on backburner for too long. Serve up: Confusion for millions. We can all be forgiven for not knowing the state of Canada's marijuana law. Even the courts seem confused. On Jan. 10, a second Ontario Court judge in a month found there is currently no law prohibiting the possession of small amounts of marijuana, s…
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Website: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/ News flash: A new poll has found British Columbia is the most pot-friendly province in Canada. This will come as no surprise to anyone who remembers the flower-power era of the 1960s, when Vancouver was the Canadian equivalent of hippie mecca San Francisco. Out of the haze of the Easter Be-Ins and psychedelic music scene emerged a B.C. pot culture that has only grown en stronger over the years. Pot has become an entrenched part of the provincial economy. Depending on who you talk to, growing marijuana is a $1-billion to $8-billion business in British Columbia. Some argue it contributes more to the economy than f…
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Source: NOW Magazine (Canada) Published: Vol. 22 No. 20 - January 16 - 22, 2003 Copyright: 2003 NOW Communications Inc. Contact: letters@nowtoronto.com Website: http://www.nowtoronto.com/ Medical pot advocates won a landmark decision last week when Justice Sidney N. Lederman of Ontario's Superior Court ordered the feds to fix a medical marijuana regime he declared unconstitutional. The following is an excerpt from his 40-page ruling. The respondent in this case (the government) argued that the several hundred kilograms of marijuana that have been harvested by Prairie Plan Systems to date are intended for research purposes only. Minister (Allan) Rock, however, is …
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Source: Columbia Missourian (MO) Website: http://www.digmo.com/ The Columbia City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on an ordinance that would lessen the penalty for having small quantities of marijuana. A group seeking to decriminalize possesion of small amounts of marijuana gathered enough signatures on an initiative petition to ensure that their proposed measure will be voted on by the council. If the council does not pass the ordinance, it will be submitted to voters on April 8, City Manager Ray Beck said. The proposed ordinance would direct all people charged with possessing 35 grams of marijuana or less to municipal court instead of state court, limit punish…
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Neighbours wondered why the blinds were closed and no one was ever home at several city houses. They found out on Friday: FOUR HOUSES. 992 MARIJUANA PLANTS. STREET VALUE $1M Renata D'Aliesio, Journal Staff Writer The Edmonton Journal Four homes raided by the police Green Team. Above: A home where two suspects lived at 12419 55th Street Jugs of plant fertilizer crowd a kitchen counter at 13418 32A Street. "This house was sweating. I've never seen it so bad. Even the dryer vents had icicles because there was so much condensation. This house may have to be condemned." Det. Clayton Sach, of Edmonton police The middle-aged woman never seemed to stay for more tha…
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Source: Columbia Missourian (MO) Author: Stephanie Von Brochowski, Reporter Published: January 19, 2003 Copyright: 2003 Columbia Missourian Contact: editor@digmo.com Website: http://www.digmo.com/ The Columbia City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on an ordinance that would lessen the penalty for having small quantities of marijuana. A group seeking to decriminalize possesion of small amounts of marijuana gathered enough signatures on an initiative petition to ensure that their proposed measure will be voted on by the council. If the council does not pass the ordinance, it will be submitted to voters on April 8, City Manager Ray Beck said. The proposed ordinance …
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After 14 years of teaching the Drug Abuse Resistance Education curriculum to Newton's fifth-graders, the School Department has abandoned it and has begun a prevention program that focuses largely on parental involvement and is targeted to all middle-school children. DARE, among the most popular school drug-prevention programs in the country, has been criticized as having limited long-term effectiveness, according to Suzi Kaitz, health and drug-alcohol education specialist for the Newton schools. The School Department decided to make a switch, she said, because of ''the awareness that there were other programs that had more impact.'' National research on the new dua…
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Human beings have a serious substance-abuse problem. It certainly wouldn't hurt some of us to lay off a bit, but our unquenchable collective appetite for self-administered intoxication of one sort or another would, arguably, have far less ruinous consequences were our societal attitude toward booze and drugs somewhat less complicated and inconsistent. Our biggest problem is with substance abuse as a concept. Alcohol and illicit drugs are, and always will be, a two-fisted moral and legal conundrum because we harbour an innate desire for black-and-white, "right" or "wrong" answers. We don't like gray areas, but the consumption of alcohol and other intoxicants takes place…
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Next week Justice Minister Martin Cauchon returns from Europe, determined to introduce legislation decriminalizing marijuana possession. It now seems likely that he'll succeed. Mr. Cauchon is convinced that Canadians are ready to join the Europeans in effectively legitimizing the recreational smoking of pot. Toking on the continent has become so commonplace that people light up on trains and in bars. Police ignore simple possession. Mr. Cauchon would like the same to apply here. But he is only a cabinet minister, and Edmonton is not Paris. Before he can hope to get "decrim" (get used to the word) through Parliament, he must first pass the Cerberus of the Prime Minist…
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The Trial of Ed Rosenthal By Ann Harrison, AlterNet January 17, 2003 A federal judge in San Francisco is blocking a jury from hearing evidence that could exculpate an outspoken medical marijuana activist. Ed Rosenthal, who is facing 20 years in prison on federal drug charges, believed himself to be immune from prosecution when he was deputized by the nearby city of Oakland in 1998 to cultivate cannabis for chronically ill patients. Rosenthal's case is a challenge by federal prosecutors to California's Compassionate Use Act (Prop. 215), a 1996 voter referendum that made the cultivation, possession and consumption of medical marijuana legal in California with a doctor's…
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Pot grow sentence surprises everyone Thursday January 16, 2003 FRANCES BARRICK RECORD STAFF KITCHENER -- A kitchen fire caused by a Kitchener man who had a large marijuana grow operation in his rented townhouse resulted in the first-time offender being sentenced yesterday to eight months in jail, a term that shocked even the drug prosecutor on the case. "I was surprised," said Kathleen Nolan, who had asked for a 12-month jail sentence for 28-year-old Michael Broz. Until recently, the most prevalent sentence for first-time offenders convicted of operating indoor pot operations was a period of house arrest, a sentence defence lawyer Harold Cox had asked for his c…
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6:23 pm EST January 17, 2003 -- A controversial bill is still smoking in the State House. Medical marijuana was snuffed out by the Senate last May but over the summer, a committee studied the issues surrounding legalizing the drug for patients. Today the Senate Judiciary Committee reviewed its findings, and it's likely this bill will be brought to life again. Katherine Perera has been living with HIV for 15 years and today she tried to explain to Senate Judiciary members how important marijuana is to her for pain relief. "I think there are a lot of examples of people using it medically in a very responsible fashion." Perera was one of 12 members on the Medical Mar…
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A spokesman for the Office of National Drug Policy said Thursday it would be "silly" for Drug Czar John Walters to file campaign expenditure reports for speaking out against marijuana legalization in Nevada. "Part of the job of the drug czar is to talk about the problem of drug abuse in America, which he feels would be worse with drug legalization," spokesman Tom Riley said. "He doesn't file a campaign statement in each state he goes to. That would be silly." Riley said Walters has received a letter from Secretary of State Dean Heller in which he was asked to explain why he should not comply with the state's campaign contributions and expenditures law. That law req…
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It is one thing to have our intelligence insulted by advertisers attempting to separate us from our money. It is quite another when our own government uses our tax dollars to spread disinformation, as with new TV ads linking drug use in America to terrorism. In the latest attempt to bolster public support (and funding) for the failed war on drugs, the White House has unleashed a slick ad series featuring fictional debaters, Nick and Norm, two middle-aged white businessmen dining at an expensive restaurant, talking drugs and terror. In four 30-second vignettes, their argument plays out. After initial resistance, the dark-haired one concedes a connection between drug m…
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