State’s medical marijuana program stumbling (11:14 pm)
The News Review:
- State’s medical marijuana program stumbling (11:14 pm)
- Cannabis myths: Moving beyond the influence
- Letter: Ggovernment is sticking to false information about marijuana
- Cannabis haul makes for a good first day at work
- GBP3m of cannabis plants are seized from luxury homes.
- APY lands drug rehab centre to focus on cannabis
State’s medical marijuana program stumbling (11:14 pm)
Stockton Record – Feb 23, 2007
Locally, Calaveras County issued 12 of the cards in 2006, far fewer than the 174 cards per year initially projected. San Joaquin County has not yet issued any of the cards. Medical marijuana users are not required to have the cards. And many say they’ve chosen to go without rather than pay card fees and risk drawing scrutiny by anti- marijuana law enforcement agencies because their names appear on county-maintained lists and in a state database. The cards are intended to reduce the chances that medical pot users will face arrest or detention during delays while law officers check the validity of a doctor’s written recommendation the law requires. Law enforcement officials say the cards make it easier for them to quickly determine who can legally possess marijuana. Some medical marijuana proponents blame state and local politicians for resisting Proposition 215, the law legalizing medical marijuana which voters approved in 1996… The cards are intended to reduce the chances that medical pot users will face arrest or detention during delays while law officers check the validity of a doctor’s written recommendation the law requires. Law enforcement officials say the cards make it easier for them to quickly determine who can legally possess marijuana. Some medical marijuana proponents blame state and local politicians for resisting Proposition 215, the law legalizing medical marijuana which voters approved in 1996. And they say that a $142-per-year increase in the state fee for the cards that takes effect in March will make matters worse by further discouraging medical marijuana patients, many of whom are poor and disabled. Read more on this story from staff writer Dana Nichols in Saturday’s Record.
Cannabis myths: Moving beyond the influence
Drexel University The Triangle Online – Feb 23, 2007
substring(0, thispageresult. It makes sense, because even though these products aren’t aimed at children to begin with, their very presence is a threat! Deal with it, you filthy tobacco smokers and burnout losers, this is one battle you criminals have lost! Okay, maybe you’re already spending a fair deal money on that evil devil, weed, that kills brain cells, causes cancer, and renders you violent and insane. Maybe buying blunts in bulk (as it’s still legal to sell in packages of six or more) will come across as more of an inconvenience, but the writing is on the wall! I salute you, Rocks and City Council, for making our streets safer from people who giggle, relax, binge eat, philosophize and take copious naps. We don’t care if you’re a decent, non-violent or even hard-working citizen. Our rigid, black-and-white view of drug policy refuses to allow a toxic, deadly mari-hoo-ana plant with no recorded overdoses to be tolerated!In case you’re… well, ignorant, I’m being sarcastic. Cannabis is non-toxic, not correlated to cancer, not linked to taking more dangerous drugs, not proven to cause crime, less physically addictive than caffeine and alcohol, and does not kill brain cells. It temporarily produces insubstantial short-term memory problems that, perhaps barring heavy and long-term usage, reverse when the user quits. These are facts available to the public that fly in the face of all the myths that prohibitionists shove in our faces every day, typically in the form of airing hysterical commercials about running over little girls or letting infants drown. Many people don’t like to acknowledge this, because drugs in general are frowned upon (sometimes even with a beer in hand – is that irony at its greatest, or what?) and many don’t take pot-smokers seriously. Almost every harm that’s associated with marijuana, save for a couple, originate from the fact that it’s illegal.
Letter: Ggovernment is sticking to false information about marijuana
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Online… – Feb 23, 2007
In 1988, Drug Enforcement Administration Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young — after a year’s worth of hearings and a volume of evidence so massive that the transcripts fill 15 volumes — ruled, “The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision. ”
Political appointees overruled Young and the lie that marijuana has no medical value continued. It’s time for our government to start telling the truth. Sincerely,
Bruce Mirken
Director of Communications, ASA
Washington, DC
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Cannabis haul makes for a good first day at work
Wimbledon Guardian – Feb 23, 2007
Merton Park PCSOs Sharon Reilly and Winston McCourt were on patrol in Mostyn Road on Monday when they spotted a house with its front door open. Worried about any residents who might have been living there they approached the house and were struck by a strong smell of cannabis. Inside the house the PCSOs found more than 200 cannabis plants in the three rooms and a number of high powered lights.