Controlling medical pot is not such an out-of-control idea
The News Review:
- Controlling medical pot is not such an out-of-control idea
- Police find $620,000 dope crop
- FOOTBALL; Return of the Prodigal Running Back
- Dope reports dope theft, arrested
- Qantas staff to back Corby’s case
Controlling medical pot is not such an out-of-control idea
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 26, 2005
tmpl –>If medical marijuana seems tough to regulate in San Francisco, blame the federal government. The feds are in a fix. More than two-thirds of Americans support the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes. Every state ballot initiative, beginning with California’s Proposition 215 in 1996, has passed, often by wide margins. Medical marijuana bills are passing in state legislatures, often with support from Republican governors and lawmakers…
“Coffee shops” now operate throughout the country, subject to local regulations. Troublesome shops are shut down, and most are well integrated into local city cultures. Cannabis is no more popular there than in the United States and other western countries, notwithstanding its de facto legalization. I need not belabor the analogy. All good-faith participants in San Francisco’s medical marijuana dialogue must keep in mind that they are engaged in a historical process, embedded in the gray area of the law, that requires balancing the human rights of patients, neighborly concerns and the often unreasonable demands of outside political forces. For millions of Americans, marijuana is akin to the beer, wine or martini at the end of the workday, or the prescribed drug to alleviate depression or anxiety, or the sleeping pill, or the aid to sexual function. More and more Americans are apt to describe some or all of their marijuana use as “medical” as the definition of that term evolves and broadens.
Police find $620,000 dope crop
NEWS.com.au – Jul 26, 2005
Police said they were called to a house at Tucabia, near Grafton, for an unrelated matter about 12. 30pm (AEST) yesterday. When they arrived, they noticed a large number of cannabis plants growing nearby. Officers searched the premises and allegedly found 354 cannabis plants, 145 grams of dried cannabis, 28 grams of powder believed to be amphetamine, and an unregistered firearm. The cannabis had an estimated potential street value of more than $620,000, police said. A 47-year-old man was arrested and charged with cultivating a commercial quantity of cannabis, possessing a prohibited drug, and firearms offences. He was bailed to appear in Grafton Local Court on August 22.
FOOTBALL; Return of the Prodigal Running Back
New York Times – Jul 26, 2005
,” said Williams, who played five seasons, the last two in Miami, before retiring. ”I think I had a problem with some of the rules and just living that life. ” Williams failed three drug tests for marijuana and faces a four-game suspension at the start of this season for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy. He said he no longer smoked marijuana. At the time he retired, Williams said, he yearned to be free, which to him meant ”doing whatever you wanted to do whenever you wanted to do it. ” But after following his whims to the South Pacific and Asia, Williams said he realized that ”freedom is on the inside and not the outside” and that the key to contentment ”is just learning to be content in any environment. ” He said he regarded returning to the regimented life of the N…
”I think I had a problem with some of the rules and just living that life. ” Williams failed three drug tests for marijuana and faces a four-game suspension at the start of this season for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy. He said he no longer smoked marijuana. At the time he retired, Williams said, he yearned to be free, which to him meant ”doing whatever you wanted to do whenever you wanted to do it. ” But after following his whims to the South Pacific and Asia, Williams said he realized that ”freedom is on the inside and not the outside” and that the key to contentment ”is just learning to be content in any environment. ” He said he regarded returning to the regimented life of the N.
Dope reports dope theft, arrested
Melbourne Herald Sun – Jul 26, 2005
Stephen Knight, 17, said three men had broken into his apartment, hogtied him with Christmas lights and stole some marijuana, along with a plasma screen television, police said. Police are looking for the suspects. In the meantime, they arrested Knight after finding several marijuana plants growing under heat lamps in the apartment, four grams of harvested marijuana and a tablet of ecstasy, Officer Chad Ripley said. Knight said the men barged into his home early this morning demanding, “Where’s the weed?”, according to San Antonio police. Share this article.
Qantas staff to back Corby’s case
The Age – Jul 26, 2005
The Daily Telegraph reports two Qantas employees, a check-in operator and a baggage handler, had agreed to give evidence at her re-opened trial in Bali. The staff are expected to arrive in Bali next week to testify there was nothing suspicious about the appearance of her luggage when she checked in at Brisbane airport. Erwin Siregar, a member of Corby’s legal team, said the testimony of the two would help convince the court there was reasonable doubt the 4. 1kg of marijuana was in her luggage when she checked in. “Everything will be explained by the two Qantas staff,” he told The Daily Telegraph. Meanwhile, a man labelled by his own lawyer as a “total bull***t artist” claims the drugs in Schapelle Corby’s luggage were meant for him. The man has told News Limited newspapers he was offered $50,000 to collect the 4.