Supporters of marijuana ballot question lodge complaint
The News Review:
- Supporters of marijuana ballot question lodge complaint
- Scientists follow Queen Victoria and tackle pain with cannabis
- Organic growers hope to bag new federal medical marijuana contract
- Court acquits sick man with homegrown cannabis
- Suspected marijuana pushers nabbed in Muntinlupa
- Supreme Court allows MS patient to grow cannabis
- Four jailed for running Burnley and Nelson cannabis factories
Supporters of marijuana ballot question lodge complaint
Boston Globe, United States
Whitney Taylor of the Committee for Sensible Marijuana Policy said the district attorneys raised and spent money to oppose the question before forming their Coalition to Save Our Streets. Campaign finance laws require groups to form a committee before raising and spending money. Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone brushed aside the group’s criticism, calling it a ploy to distract attention from critics of the ballot question. Leone attended a rally on the steps of the Statehouse with other district attorneys, police, clergy, and community organizers to call for the measure’s defeat.
Scientists follow Queen Victoria and tackle pain with cannabis
Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal, UK
Researchers at Imperial College in Paddington have discovered receptors in the nervous system called CB2 that can be activated by cannabis, and developed painkillers that replicate this effect without harming the brain. Drugs that activate CB2 receptors block pain by stopping signals being transmitted in human sensory nerves. Previously, CB1 receptors were thought to be the primary cell structures involved in pain relief, but drugs that activate these can cause drowsiness, psychosis and addiction. “Although cannabis is probably best known as an illegal recreational drug, people have used it for medicinal purposes for centuries,” said Praveen Anand, professor of clinical neurology at Imperial.
Organic growers hope to bag new federal medical marijuana contract
The Canadian Press
Public Works Canada has extended the deadline for bids on the contract currently held by Prairie Plant Systems Inc. , which operates a grow operation deep within a mine in northern Manitoba. No reason for the extension has been given. Companies that hope to win the contract say they are waiting for more information from Ottawa to complete their bids by the new Sept.
Court acquits sick man with homegrown cannabis
Tehran Times, Iran
Growing marijuana is illegal in the Netherlands but sales of it and other cannabis-related soft drugs in coffee shops have been tolerated for decades, making them a major tourist attraction. Pharmacies are allowed to sell limited quantities of cannabis only if the buyer can provide a doctor’s prescription. The man suffered some negative side-effects after taking pharmacy cannabis, and then decided to grow his own marijuana, the Dutch high court said in a statement. Citing the unusual circumstances, the court said it was acceptable for the man to grow the drug without a license.
Suspected marijuana pushers nabbed in Muntinlupa
ABS CBN News, Philippines
Muntinlupa City policemen nabbed Ariel Banayat and Armando Calalang during raids in their homes in Barangay Putatan. Policemen seized 20 sachets of marijuana from Banayat and 11 more sachets from Calalang. The police said the two are tricycle drivers selling marijuana to students around Muntinlupa City. Drug charges were being prepared against the suspects.
Supreme Court allows MS patient to grow cannabis
Radio Netherlands, Netherlands
He wants to grow his own because the type of medical cannabis sold in pharmacies does not help his symptoms. Four years ago the police came to Wim Moorlag's home and seized 43 home-grown plants. His lawyer Wim Anker says "It is really a disgrace how the law has treated this man. It is beyond comprehension that he has spent four years in the legal pipeline.
Four jailed for running Burnley and Nelson cannabis factories
Lancashire Telegraph, UK
Four jailed for running Burnley and Nelson cannabis factories 6:50am Thursday 18th September 2008 By Chris Hopper » FOUR Vietnamese illegal immigrants who ran huge cannabis farms from a flat, a house in Nelson and a landmark Burnley pub have been jailed. Burnley Crown Court yesterday heard how Hai Nguyen, 23, Ha Nguyen, 34, and 46-year-old Tuan Pham, all of no fixed address, were âvirtual prisonersâ who between them looked after operations involving around 1,350 cannabis plants. The three men were arrested by police last month after officers raided the Duke of York pub, in Colne Road, and another property on the road. And on Tuesday Trung K Nguyen was jailed for 12 months after admitting being the front man for a cannabis factory on Carr Road, Nelson, where police found 445 cannabis plants and 489 seedlings. Yesterday Hai Nguyen and Ha Nguyen were jailed for 15 months each while Pham was sentenced to 12 months after all three earlier pleaded guilty to producing Class C drugs.