DeVore backs legal hemp
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The News Review:
- DeVore backs legal hemp
- What if pot were legal?
- 6,200 marijuana plants seized in northern Wayne
- Morocco’s cannabis farmers struggle as their product funds…
- When Cannabis Failed to Sell: The Trouble with Pre-Prohibition Cannabi…
- THE WORLD: READING FILE; Did Israel Neglect Its Ground Forces?
DeVore backs legal hemp
Daily Pilot – Aug 20, 2006
State senators passed the bill last week, though only three Republicans supported it, and it now goes back to Assembly members, who must consider some Senate amendments. A rock-ribbed conservative, DeVore seems an unlikely supporter of the measure, which was proposed by San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Mark Leno. "There’s this perception that somehow hemp and marijuana are the same," DeVore said. "Certainly from the point of a campaign hit piece, you could make the claim that you’re being soft on drugs, when in reality it has nothing to do with that. "DeVore read a convincing brochure about hemp, which produces strong fibers and can be used in soap, paper, fabric and building materials. He was convinced of its benefits: It can be grown with less water and fewer pesticides and fertilizers than many crops, and he believed it would be good for the state’s farmers and economy. Supporting industrial hemp is not advocating drug use, DeVore said, because the bill includes requirements that growers show their plants contain less than 0.
What if pot were legal?
Seattle Times – Aug 20, 2006
Former Seattle restaurateur Kanti Selig, selling brownies and cookies made with hemp seeds — sorry, no THC, pot’s active ingredient — sees only good things if the drug becomes more widely available. “It would make everyone less fearful,” she said, pulling the lid off a 4-quart container to display the cocoa-brown hemp powder she uses in baking. Hemp — marijuana without the hallucinogenic effect — is grown for food and fiber. It can be imported, but cultivation is restricted in the United States. If the high-protein plant were more widely available, the price would drop — seeds currently cost $12 to $13 a pound — and products like hemp milk, hemp cheese and hemp flour would be easier to get, she said. But a man who called himself Cloud, an organizer of Emerald Empire Hempfest in Eugene, Ore. , worries that mom-and-pop artisans would get squeezed out if marijuana and its accoutrements went legit.
6,200 marijuana plants seized in northern Wayne
Goldsboro News Argus – Aug 20, 2006
Surrounding them were more than 350 marijuana plants — the first of seven more plots that yielded more than 6,200 plants in northern Wayne County, Sheriff Carey Winders said. The location was about a mile from Norwayne Middle School — and included a campsite officials think was used by the growers. The seizure was the second largest in Wayne County’s history, topped only by a 15,000 marijuana plant seizure earlier this year. The potential street value of the 22,000 marijuana plants seized this year by the Sheriff’s Office and the Goldsboro-Wayne County Drug Squad is about $53 million, if the plants had grown to maturity. Friday’s find was worth a potential $15 million, Winders said… The location was about a mile from Norwayne Middle School — and included a campsite officials think was used by the growers. The seizure was the second largest in Wayne County’s history, topped only by a 15,000 marijuana plant seizure earlier this year. The potential street value of the 22,000 marijuana plants seized this year by the Sheriff’s Office and the Goldsboro-Wayne County Drug Squad is about $53 million, if the plants had grown to maturity. Friday’s find was worth a potential $15 million, Winders said. The Sheriff’s Office helicopter, which is stationed near the fields at the Goldsboro-Wayne County Municipal Airport, was conducting one of its routine flights over the county when officers on board spotted the plants at about noon. From there, off-duty and on-duty SWAT members, Wayne sheriff’s deputies and Goldsboro police officers went through the nearby fields to search the area and seize the plants. Some of the plots contained plants that were only a foot tall or smaller, which were surrounded by sticks just as long.
Morocco’s cannabis farmers struggle as their product funds…
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 20, 2006
(From AP Worldstream) Byline: JOHN THORNE Like many in this hardscrabble region, Abdurahman and his family are near-destitute people who possess vast riches. Their cinderblock farmhouse, clinging to the stony slopes of northern Morocco’s Rif Mountains, is as empty as an abandoned bunker, but a closer look at their lands reveals an illicit bounty. On the surrounding mountainsides, emerald swaths of cannabis mature under the Mediterranean sun. Abdurahman has laid out bundles of it to dry on the roof. After a few days, he will take the cannabis inside, where it will dry for a month before the resin is extracted and molded into 200-gram bricks of dung-colored hashish. Morocco is the world’s largest producer of hashish, but the crop that sustains the Rif is feeding more than European drug appetites _… On the surrounding mountainsides, emerald swaths of cannabis mature under the Mediterranean sun. Abdurahman has laid out bundles of it to dry on the roof. After a few days, he will take the cannabis inside, where it will dry for a month before the resin is extracted and molded into 200-gram bricks of dung-colored hashish. Morocco is the world’s largest producer of hashish, but the crop that sustains the Rif is feeding more than European drug appetites _.
When Cannabis Failed to Sell: The Trouble with Pre-Prohibition Cannabi…
Bay Area Indymedia – Aug 20, 2006
But why wasn’t there more resistance from doctors and pharmacists?
A succinct, plausible explanation can be found in the 1926 edition of the Dispensatory of the United States of America. We scored a copy of this authoritative 1,792 page compendium for $2 at a garage sale last weekend. The authors of the article on Cannabis didn’t question its medical efficacy. Doctors were loath to prescribe it and druggists loath to dispense it due to inconsistent potency. "Cannabis is used in medicine to relieve pain, to encourage sleep, and to soothe restlessness. Its action upon the nerve centers resembles opium, although much less certain, but it does not have the deleterious effect on the secretions. As a somnifacient it is rarely sufficient by itself, but may at times aid the hypnotic effect of other drugs… The authors of the article on Cannabis didn’t question its medical efficacy. Doctors were loath to prescribe it and druggists loath to dispense it due to inconsistent potency. "Cannabis is used in medicine to relieve pain, to encourage sleep, and to soothe restlessness. Its action upon the nerve centers resembles opium, although much less certain, but it does not have the deleterious effect on the secretions. As a somnifacient it is rarely sufficient by itself, but may at times aid the hypnotic effect of other drugs. For its analgesic action it is used especially in pains of neuralgic origin, such as migraine, but is occasionally of service in other types. As a general nerve sedative it is useful in hysteria, mental depression, neurasthenia, and the like.
THE WORLD: READING FILE; Did Israel Neglect Its Ground Forces?
New York Times – Aug 20, 2006
This concept remained intact even though we witnessed a conventional clash between the United States and Iraq, a clash which included broad ground maneuvers alongside the battle in the air. Dutch Drug Gangs in Germany When the Netherlands cracked down on marijuana growers, drug gangs moved across the border to Germany, according to an article on the English-language Web site of Der Spiegel. This has angered some German officials, who say the Dutch are hypocritical because they allow — and profit from — the sale of marijuana at ”cannabis clubs. ” There’s a certain absurdity inherent in the Dutch government’s policy. On the one hand, it is waging a decisive battle against growers, but at the same time The Hague tolerates the Netherlands’ 729 so-called coffee shops that sell illegally produced hash and marijuana and generate 200 million euros in annual revenues. Tax money from weed sales helps fill the Dutch government’s treasury. ”This is a Grade A provocation,” laments Karl-Heinz Florenz, a politician with the conservative Christian Democratic Union who represents Germany’s Lower Rhine region at the European Parliament in Brussels.