Sacramento supervisors reject state’s medical marijuana ID program
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- Sacramento supervisors reject state’s medical marijuana ID program
- Some moms quit cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol during pregnancy, but…
- Couple Face Drug Charges After Large Marijuana Find
- The holy hemp makes a comeback this Holi
- Bauchi’s narcotic agents nab female ex-convict, man over Indian hemp
Sacramento supervisors reject state’s medical marijuana ID program
Sacramento Bee – Mar 19, 2008
Tuesday’s 3-2 vote was instead in step with the position of Sacramento County’s law enforcement officials that implementing the program would invite residents to violate federal law. While state law allows the use of marijuana for legitimate medicinal purposes, federal law does not… This is my lifeline. “Thomas Coy, a Sacramento man who uses marijuana to ease symptoms of AIDS, said he wanted the board to start the program “to let law enforcement know it’s really medicine for me. “Brittany Davies, 17, who suffers from a rare bone disease, said she plans to drive to San Francisco for the weekend to look at prom dresses, but she’s afraid to take with her the cannabis cream she uses to ease her pain. “I don’t want to be pulled over and have to go to jail or something,” Davies said. The three were among 30 medical marijuana supporters who entreated the supervisors to support the program. Supervisors Roger Dickinson and Jimmie Yee voted in favor of implementing the program. Supervisors Roberta MacGlashan, Susan Peters and Don Nottoli voted against it.
Some moms quit cigarettes, marijuana, alcohol during pregnancy, but…
EurekAlert – EurekAlert (press release) – Mar 19, 2008
Substance use around pregnancy presents a wide variety of risks to fetuses and infants including fetal alcohol syndrome, cognitive and behavioral problems and impairments, asthma and higher incidences of sudden infant death syndrome. The study found that:
77 percent of women cigarette smokers and 50 percent of the women who smoked marijuana used those substances at some time during pregnancy. 38 percent of women cigarette smokers and 24 percent of marijuana users reported using those substances throughout their pregnancies. While overall rates of cigarette and marijuana use and binge drinking for women declined during pregnancy, those rates began rising again during the first six months following the birth of a baby. Month by month during pregnancy, rates of smoking among all pregnant women varied between 17 percent and 21 percent, binge drinking was between 2 percent and 3 percent and marijuana use was between 8 percent and 9 percent. Data for the study came from the Seattle Social Development Project which is following the development of 808 Seattle children who are now young adults. The participants are interviewed every three years, and for this study data covered the period when they were 21 to 24 years of age… The study found that:
77 percent of women cigarette smokers and 50 percent of the women who smoked marijuana used those substances at some time during pregnancy. 38 percent of women cigarette smokers and 24 percent of marijuana users reported using those substances throughout their pregnancies. While overall rates of cigarette and marijuana use and binge drinking for women declined during pregnancy, those rates began rising again during the first six months following the birth of a baby. Month by month during pregnancy, rates of smoking among all pregnant women varied between 17 percent and 21 percent, binge drinking was between 2 percent and 3 percent and marijuana use was between 8 percent and 9 percent. Data for the study came from the Seattle Social Development Project which is following the development of 808 Seattle children who are now young adults. The participants are interviewed every three years, and for this study data covered the period when they were 21 to 24 years of age. In interviews, they were asked about their month-by-month incidences of binge drinking (5 or more alcoholic drinks in a two-hour period) and their use of cigarettes and marijuana.
Couple Face Drug Charges After Large Marijuana Find
INDYchannel.com – Mar 19, 2008
The barn is about three miles northeast of Summitville, near the Madison and Grant County line. Police said the plants were growing under high-intensity lights. Marcus and Denise Combs were each charged with cultivating marijuana, maintaining a common nuisance and conspiracy to deal marijuana… — A couple face several charges after Indiana State Police troopers found more than 800 marijuana plants growing in their barn, police said. The plants have a street value of nearly $850,000.
The holy hemp makes a comeback this Holi
Daily News & Analysis – Mar 19, 2008
And come Holi, after the colours have settled down, revellers turn to bhang for that final high. It