Marijuana Being Packaged in Gumballs and Sold to Teens
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- Marijuana Being Packaged in Gumballs and Sold to Teens
- Tragedy befalls a pot promoter
- Prince of Pot heading to US jail
- Lonely Boys: Arrest Was Misunderstanding
- Commentary: Drug screening for the courts: The good, bad and the ugly.
- Promoter in peril.
Marijuana Being Packaged in Gumballs and Sold to Teens
NewsByUs – Jul 23, 2006
These gumballs, known as Greenades, contain enough THC to be fatal to smaller children. THC is the active chemical in marijuana that causes the user to become high.
Tragedy befalls a pot promoter
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 23, 2006
Civil libertarians and especially pot-legalization advocates have been arguing that prosecutors, armed with civil asset forfeiture laws, have been able to use legal weapons to take money and potentially ruin otherwise unsuspecting and sometimes completely innocent citizens with loose laws that effectively shift a crushing burden of proof onto the defendant. “Burning Rainbow Farm: How a Stoner Utopia Went Up in Smoke” by Dean Kuipers is centered on this law, as it tells the tale of how the threat of asset forfeiture led to the deaths on Sept. 9, 2001, of two prominent pot-festival promoters and marijuana legalization advocates in a military-style standoff. In his third book, Kuipers, a deputy editor at Los Angeles City Beat, provides an interesting look at the growth of the pot-concert festival business, as well as the fringe elements of rural culture. However, his unwillingness to squarely face the plain evidence of the culpability of his chief protagonist’s behavior, along with some sloppy fact checking and poor use of history, prevents him from delivering a truly compelling case for why the events at Rainbow Farm were a great abuse of police power. The book’s central focus is on a volatile entrepreneur, ex-con, gay, Republican militant libertarian and fervent marijuana-legalization supporter named Tom Crosslin, the owner and creator of Rainbow Farm. Crosslin tied his politics and his position on marijuana into a potential money-making venture: He bought a farm, and in 1996, began holding for-profit (though he almost never made money) marijuana-focused festivals and concerts… And though Crosslin was armed to the teeth and claimed that his farm was wired with bombs, Kuipers fruitlessly searches the evidence — and attempts to sully the one witness — to show that Crosslin had not raised his weapon against the officers who killed him, as if whether Crosslin pointed a gun at police were the only issue that mattered here. Blindness to Crosslin’s behavior is not the book’s only failing. Some chapters are poorly thought out, including those on the history and politics of pot, hemp and libertarianism with discussions of anti-hemp and marijuana conspiracy theories involving Du Pont, the “Prison-Industrial complex” and the federal government (especially Presidents Nixon and Reagan). Also, for a book partly centered on political ideas, there are a number of glaring factual errors that call into question Kuipers’ basic knowledge of the political world that he attempts to indict. Jesse Jackson was never a South Carolina congressman; Barry Goldwater did not take the 1964 Republican presidential nomination from Richard Nixon, he beat Nelson Rockefeller, and it is very doubtful that his campaign caught on with “many young antiwar idealists”; and most important, as there is a whole chapter on a referendum Crosslin attempted to get on the ballot, referendums are not called “the fourth branch of government” (that is governmental administrative bureaucracies) and they are fantastically popular, not, as Kuipers states, “not exercised that much. ” Strangely underplayed is Crosslin’s partner, Rollie Rohm, the other man killed in the standoff. The younger man, 20 years Crosslin’s junior, is practically a shadow throughout the book.
Prince of Pot heading to US jail
Canoe.ca – Jul 23, 2006
so you’re talking hundreds of thousands of happy customers. ”
For almost 15 years, Emery has been an outspoken advocate of the cannabis culture, even creating a magazine and forming the B. Three years ago, he travelled across the country lighting up giant joints at pro-marijuana rallies in front of police stations in his quest to legalize pot. He spent two months in a Saskatoon jail after he was arrested passing around a marijuana cigarette at a pro-pot rally.
Lonely Boys: Arrest Was Misunderstanding
Washington Post – Jul 23, 2006
JoJo and I are very much in love and we are planning to be married. “Garza, Lyn and Garza’s sibling-bandmates were celebrating last week’s release of the band’s new album, Sacred, when another hotel guest reported a disturbance, publicist Diana Baron said. Police arrived to find a woman who had been assaulted and marijuana, Austin police spokeswoman Laura Albrecht said. Baron declined to comment on the marijuana charge but said Lyn was unharmed and had protested the arrest. The Austin police erred on the side of caution, but their actions were “completely unnecessary,” Garza’s attorney Charlie Roadman said in the release. Austin police spokeswoman Ruth Bullock said investigators will give a report to the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, which will decide whether to press formal charges. In cases of family violence, alleged victims cannot drop charges, she said… “Garza, Lyn and Garza’s sibling-bandmates were celebrating last week’s release of the band’s new album, Sacred, when another hotel guest reported a disturbance, publicist Diana Baron said. Police arrived to find a woman who had been assaulted and marijuana, Austin police spokeswoman Laura Albrecht said. Baron declined to comment on the marijuana charge but said Lyn was unharmed and had protested the arrest. The Austin police erred on the side of caution, but their actions were “completely unnecessary,” Garza’s attorney Charlie Roadman said in the release. Austin police spokeswoman Ruth Bullock said investigators will give a report to the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, which will decide whether to press formal charges. In cases of family violence, alleged victims cannot drop charges, she said. She disputed the band’s account of the incident.
Commentary: Drug screening for the courts: The good, bad and the ugly.
Free with registration – St. Charles County Business Record, MO – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 23, 2006
” Little did this caseworker know that cocaine is not detectable in urine after three days. His client, who tested positive five days after the initial positive test, had re-used in the interim, but the court was given wrong information. Similarly, a judge said he uses the reported levels of THC (marijuana metabolite) in a similar fashion: If levels are going down, the testee is abstaining. But levels are a function of a number of factors, including diet, fluid intake, metabolism, and so forth. Levels can fluctuate up or down daily, with or without continuous use. When informed that the method he was using was invalid, the judge replied, “I know, but what else is there?” In fact, there is a technology that will measure recent marijuana use without reporting positive for previous use – oral fluids testing. Few people in the court system are aware of oral fluid testing… But levels are a function of a number of factors, including diet, fluid intake, metabolism, and so forth. Levels can fluctuate up or down daily, with or without continuous use. When informed that the method he was using was invalid, the judge replied, “I know, but what else is there?” In fact, there is a technology that will measure recent marijuana use without reporting positive for previous use – oral fluids testing. Few people in the court system are aware of oral fluid testing. Those who are, often are misinformed about its accuracy. Another example is the referee who insisted on a Breathalyzer test – rather than a.
Promoter in peril.
Free with registration – Knoxville News Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 23, 2006
23–Scott West was in Atlanta on his way to a trade show for gift retailers when he got a call on his cell phone. It was the Knoxville Police Department, or maybe a federal official. He’s not sure, but the message was grim: West was charged in a marijuana trafficking and money laundering conspiracy. “I’m in Atlanta,” he responded. “I’m driving back now. I’ll turn myself in this afternoon. ” The indictment of West, his brother and two other men accused of providing and transporting tons of marijuana worth millions of dollars over 11 years stunned developers, politicians and business people interested in the revitalization of downtown.